Cisco Routers 24seven

This is a good book to use because it explains certain things in a clear fashion without being inaccurate and too basic. The things to be had in this book that you cannot easily find elsewhere are: 1. section on the high end routers 2. IGRP for IPX and IGRP for appletalk 3. Good summary information for routing protocol configuration: rip (v1 and v2), ospf, igrp, and even IS-IS and eigrp for more than just ip (only advanced BGP is covered in the last chapter). 4. Bridging with a router. 5. Dialer Maps AND Dialer Profiles. 6. VPNs with Crypto-maps 7. HSRP. This book is a good supplement for the CCNA and CCNP course materials and helps to "round-out" the CCNA and CCNP materials. Reading over certain parts helps to refresh your understanding of the CCNP materials and impart subtleties such as: IPX RIP and IPX EIGRP destribute routes between each other by default.

I bought this book after getting frustrated by Cisco's Advanced Router Configuration's lack of implementation examples. This book covers all I need. I'm not trying to certify, I just have routers at work that I need to configure. Concerning practical information on day to day and initial operations of Cisco routers, this book is the best that I have found. It covers Cisco's Basic and Advanced Router Configuration books in one, and it does a much better job of making the reader understand how to implement the concepts. Definate buy!

So far this has been an excellent resource for people getting into CISCO routers. I have recommended this to atleast 50 of my students and they have all loved it. This fills in all the gaps that usually students have. As a trainer myself I think this book answers all the questions that most people have when they are starting with Cisco routers.Excellent choice. I give it an A++

I found this book to be informative and accurate and at the same time very readable. It fills the gap that others have left, revealing the lesser-known nuances of the WAN environment, providing detailed information that I was able to use the very next day. The Wan may be UP, but is it running efficiently? This book enabled the fine-tuning of resources and bandwidth that saved me money.