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November 2004
Book Review: TCP/IP Foundations
Reviewed by Emmett Dulaney
TCP/IP Foundations
by Andrew G. Blank
Sybex, 2004
ISBN: 0-7821-4370-9
$24.99USD
One of the most common reasons why many people don't look up the answer to a question is that they don't want to have to wade through reams of text to find some small fact. Rather than pulling a giant networking tome off the shelf to learn why problems with a particular protocol may be occurring, they will choose what is perceived to be an easier solution — asking someone else, posting a query, etc. In truth, these solutions are rarely as reliable as the answer they could have found in that reference book.
TCP/IP Foundations, like others in the "Foundations" series from Sybex, is based on the belief that readers can benefit from very small books that are concentrated on one particular topic. Many of the titles in the series, including this one, came from the JumpStart series of a few years back. I mention this because I was disappointed to find that the content had not been changed at all for this title since it was known by the other name.
This is not the first book in the series that I've read or reviewed (see the review of Networking Foundations), and I've thought very highly of the others. I think the idea of small, concentrated books is an excellent one that makes an enormous amount of sense, but any book can only be as good as the timeliness of the content within it.
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