Re: Books for the NOC guys...

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

While not the stevens book,

"the illustrated network" isbn 978-0-12-374541-5 was a pretty good
attempt to do a modern version of the same. any book that attempts to
cover all layers of the stack is going to have it's limits, but it has
saved my bacon a couple of times now...

The author is normally a juniper press author and as a result the
examples that aren't done on freebsd or linux systems are done on junos
which is either a benifit or a drawback depending on your environment.

disclaimer, I did review it for content/accuracy, but wasn't compensated
for doing so.

joel

On 04/02/2010 05:09 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
> This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in
> our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet
> infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old
> standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a
> decade or so.
>
> On the one hand, they're all still quite relevant since there hasn't
> been anything really earth-shattering in that department, but they are
> all going to be lean to nonexistent on stuff like IPv6 and NLRI negotiation.
>
> So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -r