The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

Would agree with many of the positive reviews here. It is hard to believe that just one person wrote this book. Equally amazing is how good it is. It is getting a bit old and some things are beginning to move on, but to understand IPv6, you need a good grasp of IPv4. Both are covered beautifully in a manner designed to teach not confuse or merely impress other academic types. There are detailed diagrams and line by line full explanations on every topic and nothing nor any detail is skipped. From binary transfer, to packet encoding, everything imaginable is covered for the OSI reference model, in terms that just about anyone can understand. Seriously impressive. Want to understand networking? Much of the information in this book is a must. As a reference book, it is outstanding. At 1500+ pages it doesn't miss much, if anything, although I must confess to only having read line by line about a third of it in total, roughly 500 pages. I'm biased as my hobby and professional work is IT. I literally have multiples of hundreds of tech books, in paper and Ebooks. For me, this book is a work of fine art.

This is a great book which gives both and intelligible overview and sufficient details to the core networking protocols. While it's huge, the language inside is simple and structure which makes the impression that the networking is simple as well. :) And author explains a lot of why's and his history lessons just capture the essence without boring frills. To sum up, it can be a great reference for anyone who's interested in networking.

Since I got 6 years ago volumes 1, 2 and 3 of Steven's TCP/IP Illustrated, I hadn't found a title with so a thorough and detailed description of TCP/IP protocols. Kozierok's written a very, very detailed and authoritative guide. I agree with other reviews that Steven's books still are the best hands-on reference on TCP/IP available, and an indispensable resource. Nevertheless, 'The TCP/IP Guide' is going to mark a milestone in the TCP/IP field. I don't usually get smashed simply by the length of a book (and this is a very thick one, believe me...), because many times you find no more than lots of padding stuff. This book is simply unbelievable: more than 80 chapters with descriptions of every inner and deeper functional detail of the TCP/IP protocol stack. A lot of informative and very well-designed diagrams and graphics helps very much to understand key topics.

This text offers a well-guided clear understanding of TCP/IP and its design motivations. The nature of the text is best suited to readers with little or no networking background, and who actually want to understand TCP/IP (as opposed to just know about it). The author makes a point to explain why the designers of the protocols did things the way they did, the histories behind decisions and developments, the advantages and disadvantages of certain features and how everything fits together. These explanations obviously lengthen the text, but it is perfect if you are committed to understanding TCP/IP properly. The author's style is quite direct, easy to read, and makes sense. It's a very comprehensive text--some might argue too comprehensive! This isn't a how-to guide and doesn't claim to be. Some of the drier parts can get dry, but when describing a packet format you can't really avoid that, and you can always skip those parts (though I found persevering through them helped my understanding too). I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand the protocols of the Internet.

As a developer who wanted to understand how the internet works, I found this book to be a very good resource. It starts by giving a good overview of internetworking, a history, and the fundamental concepts make internetworking work. It goes on to describe each protocol that makes up internetworking in detail. It doesn't go into unnecessary low level detail, there's plenty of other resources for network administrators and experts. It is very complete covering all important low level protocols and many important application level protocols. I had a few minor issues that prevented this book from being my bible for internetworking. One is that the book is relatively old. While most of the technology hasn't changed, how we perceive the internet has. The way we conceptualize internetworking may have changed. The usage of certain protocols may have changed and thus the emphasis that should be placed on each protocol may be different. Also, the book is large, over 1000 pages. There's enough information and detail that it could possibly be used as a reference book. Because of these issues, I found myself skipping around and trying to figure out which sections of the book were important and essential to read. I was always afraid that I might miss something. The book can be found free online, but as someone who loves books and likes to have physical copies, especially for books I appreciate, I was happy to buy it. If you're someone like me who's looking for a comprehensive introduction to internetworking, I'd also suggest Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One (6th Edition)

TCP/IP is a dense, complex subject. The more I have used this book over the last few months, the more I have come to appreciate it. I have found the subject extremely well organized and written about in beautiful clarity. Such clarity you don't often see in writing about such an extremely technical, dense subject. Kozierok truly has a gift as an educator. The more I have worked with this book the more I see and appreciate his gift. It has been a great resource and I have learned enormous amounts about the subject.

Auch nach 20 Jahren mit Unix und Netzwerken, mangelt es mir Kenntnissen bei der Fehlersuche und manchmal breche ich mir einen ab. Dieses Buch hatte ich lange schon auf dem Schirm, hatte es aber nie gekauft weil es normalerweise, egal wo, um die 100 Euro kostet. Nun war es kurzfristig mal nur halb so teuer bei Amazon und da habe ich gleich zugeschlagen. Gut als Nachschlagewerk für den der nur mal etwas Bestimmtes nachlesen möchte, als auch für den Planlosen der einfach vorne anfängt zu lesen. Das Buch fängt bei den Basics an und dringt dann langsam tiefer in die Materie vor, das hat der gute Kozierok toll hinbekommen. Ich habe beim lesen oft diesen "Ach so, jetzt verstehe ich das..." Effekt :) Wer gar keine Grundkenntnisse hat, sollte aber trotzdem zu etwas anderem greifen.

A condition de maîtriser la langue de Shakespeare, ce livre doit être considéré comme LA référence couvrant tous les aspects du protocole TCP/IP et de sa pile de protocoles. Enseignant dans les réseaux, j'ai fait l'acquisition de ce livre pour mettre à jour mes connaissances notamment en matière d'IPv6. Bien sûr, au vu de sa taille, il ne doit pas être lu comme un roman mais est plutôt destiné à être "butiné" pour trouver une information précise...

Amazing.

After being out of the loop with networking for sometime, I was able to sync up with most concepts in about an hour of reading this book. Very clear explanations and diagrams, I think the author is a genius because most networking books I read either ramble on or don't have proper diagrams. This book has both, to the point explanation with diagrams, that's all I need. If I remember correctly this book is available for free but after browsing through this on Google Books, I just felt compelled to pay the author for making my life so much easier :)

Good