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Great I thought I'll take a look. Three volumes each over 1000 pages? Any other suggestions? Did you mean all 3 books?
by rb808 6y ago
Great I thought I'll take a look. Three volumes each over 1000 pages? Any other suggestions? Did you mean all 3 books?
- commandlinefan 6y agoHehe - I did end up reading all 3, and enjoyed them all, but I'd say I got 90% of the value from volume 1. Volume 2 walks through the BSD implementation of TCP/IP, which is fascinating, but way more detail than you'd ever need to know, and volume 3 goes off into some esoteric topics that seemed promising at the time but mostly ended up being abandoned (along with a brief discussion of HTTP as it was around the 90's). If you're going to read it, though, find a used copy of the original Stevens' first edition, not that terrible desecrated second edition.
- Bootvis 6y agoWhat is wrong with the second edition?
- commandlinefan 6y agoIt was rewritten by a different author (the original author, Richard Stevens, died in a car accident in the late 90's). I guess the new guy tried his best, but he just doesn't have the writing skill that Stevens had.
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- tenant 6y agoDepressing, isn't it? There are so many books that I probably should read about almost any number of topics that, in my work, I "touch on".
- rb808 6y agoLol I'll probably buy it and put on my bookshelf with all the others.
- irrational 6y agoI have books that I purchased decades ago like this that are still languishing on my bookshelf.
- hilem 6y agoNot OP but the first volume is the one that's cited frequently and the only one of the series I believe to have a second edition.
- kevstev 6y agoJust read the first one- it reads more like a novel than a textbook IMHO, though I may be biased- I have always been fascinated by networks and when I was coming of age this was the "high tech" of the time- I used to read RFCs for fun (I highly recommend this as well if you want to dig a little deeper- Jon Postel's are great reads). This is one of the best written textbooks, if not the best, I have ever read.
- rramadass 6y agoNo. They are huge because they are highly detailed and nitpicky. I suggest the following for understanding Networking and TCP/IP; * An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network by S.Keshav * TCP/IP Illustrated Vol -I by Richard Stevens (any edition will do). * Effective TCP/IP programming by Jon Snader.