Mastering Cisco Routers

This is a great book for anyone wanting to learn more about Cisco Routers. It covers networking basics at the beginning of the book, so its not totally above a beginners head; but it also includes step by step advanced configuration. I always have this book on our shelf for myself or any of our employees at Imagine WiFi LLC to refer to when working with Cisco Routers.

If you want real world knowledge buy this book. This is not a CCNA "how to pass the test" book; this is an "everyday usable" book. It helped me much more with my work than the Lammle CCNA guide. Very helpful for day to day operations.

Mastering Cisco Routers is a great book for understanding many aspects of Cisco routers not typically covered by CCNA books. The author has great information on how to secure your router, usefull information on creating access lists to block standard DoS attacks, and some great information on VPNs. The book also covers TFTP, Syslog, and SNMP setup for both the router, and UNIX and Windows hosts. The last 2 chapters present very useful scenarios for both large and small networks. The only things that were lacking was the chapters on routing (doesn't really go into any detail on setting up routing protocols), and the chapter on LAN protocols which barely touches on IPX, AppleTalk, and NetBEUI. Overall, if you already have a decent understanding of the Cisco IOS, and want to get some knowledge outside of the normal CCNA type information, this is the book for you.

This is a very good book for anyone willing to understand Cisco routing (CCNA/CCNP).Of course some people may find it "the poorest book ever written on Cisco Routing";It all depends on how you read books and what you are expecting from it.This book is an easy to understand way to handle complexity.

I picked this book up at a local store as almost an after thought to go with my collection of other Cisco books, including Sybex and Cisco press. After having read it, I really, really enjoyed the book. What I found most useful were the excellent screen shots and step by step diagrams and instructions. I highly recommend it as a very good introduction and day to day use of Cisco routers.