> Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:43:44 -0600 > From: John Kristoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:16:47 -0200 > "MARLON BORBA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I am in search of a good book about Network Architecture and Design, > > with emphasis in Quality of Service and convergent networks, to be used > > as a reference. Could you please indcate your favorites? > > Some might say those two mutually exclusive sets, but here are some > of my favorite general reference networking books good for most any > netop's library (in no particular order): > > An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks > S. Keshav > > TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume I > W. Richard Steves > > Internet Core Protocols > Eric A. Hall > > Interconnections: 2nd Edition > Radia Perlman > > Computer Networks: A Systems Approach > Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie > > If you want something specific to vendor hardware and configurations > I'm sure others will be happy to suggest their favorites, personally > I don't generally find those sorts of texts as useful so I can't > really speak to any of the multitude available. > > John >
I can recommend all of these except Peterson/Davie which I have not read, but Richard (Rick) Steves writes travel books. TCP/IP Illustrated: Vol. 1 was written by the late W. Richard Stevens. (Actually, this was probably a typo and not confusion.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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