IP Routing Protocols: Rip, Ospf, Bgp, Pnni and Cisco Routing Protocols

Router and routing protocols are fast becoming the certification path many people are taking. Learning TCP/IP and subnetting is most confusing if you don't understand the basis and the basics. IP Routing Protocols is a first rate work that will make sense of the whole thing.The book is written to the more network savvy users and it's important that you have this understanding before beginning. Once you get into the book you'll find a world of information all packed into 280 plus pages. While the book does start off with the basic of internetworking, again the better understanding you have the easier it will be to grasp the more complex concepts.You'll get router discovery principles, bridges and internetworking basics and then you will start with the routing protocols. RIP. OSPF, BGP, IGRP and EIRGP as well as PNNI are covered in the next seven chapters. The author includes a number pictures, figures and diagrams to help you see visually what he it talking about.There are appendices that cover the OSI layered protocols, address resolution, subnetting subnet masking, translation and configuration. Also there is a section on Next Hop Resolution Protocol and several pages that cover abbreviations used in the book.The text seems to be complete and well documented and the author has put together a excellent reference guide. While it may be a little on the pricey side the overall value is well worth the price.

This book has help me in understanding routing in general. I wished the author went more indepth on BGP and OSPF.