Sams Teach Yourself Tcp/IP in 24 Hours

by Joe Casad

Book Overview

Sams Teach Yourself TCP/IP in 24 Hours, Sixth Edition is a practical guide to the simple yet illusive protocol system that powers the Internet. A step-by-step approach reveals how the protocols of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0672335719
• ISBN13: 9780672335716
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Sams Publishing
• Length: 529 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

I got more than I bargained for!!

At first I was disappointed. I expected this book to follow the customary Teach Yourself format, which includes lots of hands-on exercises. But this book is for reading, not for sitting at your computer and doing some TCP/IP utilities. I realized that Casad was truly an expert (12 books on networking) and that I had a very nice, accurate, 414-page overview of TCP/IP (broadly defined): network access layer, Internet Layer, Transport Layer, and applications layer (HTTP, HTML, SMTP, SNMP).So the book served me well. I have a very broad technology background including system administation and software development and have set up Windows 2000 networks from scratch including Active Directory and DNS. Now, if I need a quick refresher, I have a good reference that explains the TCP/IP basics. The book will stay on my shelf for a long time.This is one of three or four books that nearly all system administrators and developers working with TCP/IP platforms should read. Very experienced architects and developers will not find this too easy. For network professionals of course this is only a primer.

Amazing book for all ages

Im 16 and an obsessive compulsive computer hobbyist, my friends keep bugging me to teach them about computers but I wasn't quite sure how. I just told them all to read so they bought books too advanced for them. I was in B & N and found this book, covers protocals, the TCP/IP layers, different kinds of servers (DNS, MX, NS etc.), heirarchial IP addresses and domains. Tells exactly how computers communicate in fairly easy to understand terms. A few typos but an excellent book. My friends dont bother me anymore, they know where to go on their own from here =)

Good Overview

The author spent a good amount of time with the second edition of this book.He covers the major aspects of TCP/IP which anyone in the computer related field would need to know. Whether it's a network engineer, system administrator, database administrator, programmer, technical manager...all of these individuals should have a grasp of how TCP/IP works and the way that computers are networked together.It's a relatively short book to read because it hits on what you need to know. I've read another book on computer networking but this is SPECIFICALLY for the TCP/IP protocol. Some mentions are given to other protocols such as UDP however. I would definitley recommend it to get a better understanding of how computers are networked and what issues arise when doing network programming via TCP/IP connections.To the author: Great job!

A way to learn an essential skill quickly

I firmly believe that no web designer can be considered educated until they know something about the protocols that are used to transfer data. The protocols form the foundation of all that is done and are one of the greatest success stories in technology. Those of us who were around before the Internet became popular remember some of the gyrations we went through trying to transfer data from one type of computer to another. There was a time in my life where if I was told that someday it would be possible to seamlessly send data from my computer to any other without the slightest concern about portability I would have been incredulous. The glue that makes all of this work in modern networks is the protocols, the stuff that makes the data go round. Despite all that they allow us to do, the TCP/IP protocols are easy to understand and this book will teach you all of the fundamentals in a short time. Furthermore, the examination is not restricted to just the Internet. The author also spends a great deal of time going over how the protocols allow data to be passed on local networks as well. Topics such as routing, name resolution and dynamic host configuration protocol are phrases that are heard regularly and ones that everyone in computing should have at least some understanding of. An hour is also devoted to the IPv6 protocols that are slowly being phased in. This book is an excellent beginning resource for anyone with the need or desire to learn the basics of network protocols. Without them, networked computers could not exist and very few computers today are not networked in some way. In many ways, knowledge of Internet protocols is now the most fundamental skill of computing.

Essential Reading

This book is an excellent resource for people who have a little experience with networking or internetworking and want to begin to expand their understanding of TCP/IP. If you're like me and want to get a grasp on the basics before jumping into some serious routing / internetworking topics, you'll find this book essential reading.