BKTCPIPI.RVW 940325 Addison-Wesley Publishing Company P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8 416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948 Heather Rignanesi, Marketing, x340, 73171.657@Compuserve.com or Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com Bob Donegon bobd@aw.com John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com Tom Stone, Editor, Higher Education Division tomsto@aw.com Philip Sutherland, Schulman Series 74640.2405@compuserve.com Keith Wollman, Trade Computer Group keithw@aw.com Lisa Roth Blackman, Trade Computer Group lisaro@aw.com 1 Jacob Way Reading, MA 01867-9984 800-822-6339 617-944-3700 Fax: (617) 944-7273 5851 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 800-447-2226 "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1", Stevens, 1994, 0-201-63346-9, U$47.50 rstevens@noao.edu A clear, readable, well-organized, thorough, and detailed explanation of the Internet Protocol Suite. The author has carefully constructed his chapters on the layered model of the protocol, itself. Starting with the data link layer, each chapter adds to what has gone before, and relies solely on what has gone before. For system managers, this gives a practical account of the operations of the network and major applications. The "illustrated" part of the title seems to refer to the fact that examples are given from a real network. The network is given in the book, and is complex enough that the network traffic analyzed can be indicative of real world situations rather than idealized theory. For instructors considering course texts, a very strong plus in the book are the chapter exercises. The answers are not simply a check on whether the student has read the text. They are well thought out questions which will need a thorough understanding of the concepts--plus a bit of work. For anyone looking for the details of the TCP/IP protocols, an excellent choice. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1994 BKTCPIPI.RVW 940325 ====================== DECUS Canada Communications, Desktop, Education and Security group newsletters Editor and/or reviewer ROBERTS@decus.ca, RSlade@sfu.ca, Rob Slade at 1:153/733 Author "Robert Slade's Guide to Computer Viruses" (Oct. '94) Springer-Verlag