Book Recommendation

mwgood

I stumbled across a book today - Network Warrior, by Gary Donahue.

It is quickly shaping up to be one of my favorite Cisco Networking books.

Anyway, it received great reviews - definitely worth a look.

http://www.amazon.com/Network-Warrior-Gary-Donahue/dp/0596101511/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1195956094&sr=1-1

mikej412

http://www.techexams.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28609

mikej412 wrote:

I'll give it 2 thumbs up (on a scale of 0-2, with 2 being best)

borumas

I was looking at that book a few weeks ago, I will have to get it soon with all the great comments I've heard about it.

binarysoul

Stay away from Todd Lemmle books altogether. There are serious issues with his books as they lack practicality.

For example, I have access to his newst book 640--802 through my company's website and it is seriously flawed; it seems to me that he just rephrases RFC's. To give you an example, his chapter on VLANs is a total failure; it describes what it is (of course Wikipedia describes that too), but it can't tell you how to do it, except few commands. That's why I posted VLAN questions here, as it has no labs/excercises to learn from. I suspect, he's been able to using marketing tricks to mislead pepole his books are the best, but at least I would give him good grades in some parts, e.g. subnetting, but an F overall.

All in one: If you take my advice, stay away from Todd Lemmle'b books.