Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 480 pages
- Published by: Sams
- Edition: 3rd Edition May 8, 2004
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0672326086
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0672326080
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
- Weighs: 1.8 pounds
Product Review
You can't go too far in technology these days without at least a casual understanding of data communications over local and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs).
Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours will clue you in on the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) networking abstraction and other key facts and concepts having to do with communication among computers. This is the sort of book you sit down and read, perhaps doodling some sketches to the side, rather than use as a guide for experiments performed on a live computer. As such, it's a good starting point as you prepare for a general networking exam, such as
Microsoft's Networking Essentials exam.
Some readers may find author Matt Hayden's approach a bit scattershot. He introduces, for example, some of the details of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and IP subnetting before he explains network topologies. He also touches on technologies such as hard-drive storage, which are not at all central to networking. But despite the padding and the sometimes-strange organizational decisions, Hayden has done a fine job of communicating the critical facts and concepts about networking in an implementation-independent way. Though he writes about the relative merits of networks built with NetWare, Windows, Unix, and Linux, he doesn't muddy the water with click-this, choose-that instructions.
--David Wall Topics covered: The essentials of computer networking, explained for people who have never studied the subject before. Design and implementation issues are treated generically, and the author makes high-level comparisons among NetWare, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Unix, and Linux.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
SAMs Publishing has four time-linked series letting the reader choose between 14 days, a week, 24 hours, or ten minutes. The times are more a guide to depth of information than a realistic measure of length of study?anyone ever try to read a 200-page book in ten minutes? Still, the series provides good material for all sorts of beginners. Whether patrons are new to computers, new to a category (e.g., networking), or just new to program upgrade, they will welcome these well-illustrated introductions. If you have a beginner's technology section in your library, any of these books will find welcoming hands. Generally, the "10 Minutes" and "24 Hours" titles on popular topics are the first choice, and you should realize that even the "14 Days" titles are not substitutes for substantial references.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Reader ReviewsNetworking can be a frustrating experience. There used to be lots of grungy details to deal with, and all the debugging would be done on a command line. No GUIs to guide you. But here the authors hope to improve matters. Naturally, the network described in most of the book is TCP/IP, better known as the Internet. There are also brief descriptions of ATM, Token Ring, FDDI, IPX and Net BIOS. It's probably fair to say that for most readers, you won't encounter these networks anytime soon. The Internet is where most of the network buildout is happening. For the Internet itself, they don't go down to the level of detail about the various fields in a packet header. Just to give you an idea of the degree of foreknowledge you need for this book. At the operating system level, they give a balanced coverage of unix/linux networking and its counterpart under Microsoft. For diagnosis and security, there is a general exposition of good practices. The authors refrain from delving into using tools like Snort or Ethereal as part of your Intrusion Detection Systems. In fact, they don't even use the latter term (or IDS). The book is worthy as a nice first book on networking. Gets you started.
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