Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 600 pages
- Published by: Syngress
- Edition: 1st Edition December 1, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1932266399
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932266399
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.8 x 1.4 inches
- Weighs: 2.3 pounds
Reader Reviews
OK, so I'm sitting here, reading about setting up my route preferences (I'm on page 289), and the sentence trails off into nowhere--literally, not figuratively. It simply . . . disappears. This book is rife with incomplete sentences (and therefore, thoughts and instructions are left incomplete), misuse of language (affect vs. effect), misspellings, etc. Why is this important? In a technical manual, details matter. So, when I'm reading a technical manual, and it's clear that the author and editors have not paid close attention to detail, the rest of the instructions are suspect. Here is another example. There is an entire section on Policy-Based VPN Configuration, which is fantastic; however, Juniper has basically stated and written in the solution brief "How Different VPN Approaches Affect Site-to-Site Scalability and Connectivity" that Policy-Based VPN's are the least preferred method of defining a VPN, because of connectivity and reliability issues. This is important because this book does not describe the process for configuring the alternative types of VPN's--route-based or dynamic route-based--but merely lends a paragraph to the former and a sentence fragment to the latter. This is a huge oversight by the authors, and leaves the reader fingering through other manuals to properly configure the device. A few positive notes, the chapter on the Netscreen product line was helpful and informative, the screen shots helped walk me through several rudimentary procedures, and I found it to be a pretty good review for dusting off my old NCIA certification. Craig Lockhart, JNCIA-FW, CCSE
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