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Re: Book / Literature Recommendations
From: Matthew Kaufman <matthew () matthew at>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 11:07:50 +0200
"Patterns in Network Architecture" You might not agree with it, but it does stimulate some thinking. Matthew Kaufman (Sent from my iPhone)
On Sep 16, 2014, at 10:48 AM, James Bensley <jwbensley () gmail com> wrote: Hi All, What is the single best book you have read on networking? That's a wide topic so to clarify I'm talking about service provider networking but I do enjoy all aspects really and don't want to limit my self to one area of networking. I'm often reading technical books about technology X or protocol Y but they are generally explaining a new technology to me, how it works and how to use it (and how to configure it if its a book by a vendor like Juniper or Cisco). That is usually a learning exercise though required for an upcoming project or deliverable. I haven't read many vendor neutral books recently that explained concepts, or technologies, or paradigms that I found profound, radical and extremely useful. I feel like I'm just reading networking books these days to learn a new technology for a period of time (until a project completes) then moving on to the next technology (book). Longevity of the information doesn't seem as profound as it used to; BGP design principals will stay with me for decades until we reach the need for BGP v5 or similar, learning about 8b/10b encoding was interesting but not really required for my line of work more out of hobbyist interest and serves no practical purpose as a network engineer. Cheers, James.
Current thread:
- Book / Literature Recommendations James Bensley (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Rakesh M (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Roland Dobbins (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations coy . hile (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations William Herrin (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations coy . hile (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Matthew Kaufman (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Jason Biel (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations William Herrin (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Rich Kulawiec (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Justin Wilson (Sep 16)
- RE: Book / Literature Recommendations Russ White (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Justin Wilson (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Ca By (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations John Kristoff (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Miles Fidelman (Sep 16)
- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Daniel Rohan (Sep 16)
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- Re: Book / Literature Recommendations Scott Weeks (Sep 16)
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