CCIE Routing and Switching Flash Cards and Exam Practice Pack (CCIE Self-Study) (Flash Cards and Exam Practice Packs) Review

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(More customer reviews)CCIE Routing and Switching Flash Cards
Reviewer: Glenn Bradley, Senior Network Engineer
Reviewer Certification: CCDA, CCNA, CCNP, ISSP
Rating: 4 out of 5
This text and flash card format is a great "last 30 days before the test" tool. If you've been preparing for your written or have plans to, remember this book. I chose a method that may work for some and not for others.
I took the four exam method to achieve my CCNP. I did this because it was more important to me to have an in depth understanding of the four primary disciplines than it was to get through the process quickly. I didn't want any gaps in my knowledge base as I prepared for the CCIE written.
I came straight off the CCNP completion and went into a 90 day high intensity self study program that basically occupied all my free time. I passed with (a little) room to spare but would have loved to have this book for my last 30 days of prep time.
Be sure to understand that this book is a study aid. It will in no way prepare you for the exam in and of itself. However, used in conjunction with a solid, well rounded study plan, it will increase your chances of success substantially.
The limited text preceding each chapter and the more in depth discussions of specific technologies that follow each chapter are well written and right to the point. I did not feel that I was reading a lot of fluff that some authors use to make it appear that there is greater value in the material being presented.
I give the book 4 out of 5. As mentioned earlier; the audience would include those just completing their CCNP and planning to go directly for the CCIE written in order to hang onto the more elusive details that we all learn just before an exam. Some folks may be planning to take the written directly as they are already functioning at the CCNP level. This text will help fill in the blanks they may have by not having the benefit of preparing for and taking the CCNP tests.


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Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices (Premier Reference Source) Review

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(More customer reviews)As an online training developer, I found this book to be very helpful. It combines theories with practices with several online models for large group training, K-12 online curriculum development, and learner differences. The theory part is also informative. It introduces several theoretical frameworks that can be applied to a spectrum of learners and learning situations.

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Higher education is currently undergoing significant changes, and conditions in higher education reflect changing financial, social, and political conditions, which affect both faculty and students. Both the rising costs of education and changes from brick-and-mortar to technologically-driven programs often lead to a change from the traditional space-and-time bound institution to ones that offer cost-effective technologically enhanced programs.Online learning has become an integral and expansive factor in higher education both in distance learning and as an adjunct to the traditional classroom. Understanding Online Instructional Modeling: Theories and Practices focuses on both theoretical and practical aspects of online learning by introducing a variety of online instructional models as well as best practices that help educators and professional trainers to better understand the dynamics of online learning.

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JavaSpaces™ Principles, Patterns, and Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great introduction to the JavaSpaces technology, making it accessible to anyone with a basic understanding of Java. The main concepts are thoroughly and simply explained and the programming examples are very well developed and easy to follow. This book would be suitable for introducing undergraduates to basic operating systems concepts such as process synchronization and interprocess communication, as well as to some of the more exciting network based applications, such as distributed transactions and collaborative applications.
It's clear that JavaSpaces technology can greatly simplify the teaching of important operating system and networking concepts such as thread synchronication and interprocess communication. As someone who has taught these courses, I've found that students have a hard time dealing with system semaphore and socket primitives. Quite often the basic concepts you're trying to teach get lost within a forest of implementation details. Not so with JavaSpaces. Check out the nicely developed Dining Philosophers and Readers/Writers examples in Chapter 4. The basic semaphore class is very simple to implement in JavaSpaces, which allows the discussion to focus on synchronization issues. Ditto for the basic Channel classes developed in Chapter 5. As all of these examples show, the use of JavaSpaces technology raises the level of abstraction, thereby making distributed programming much more widely accessible. As further evidence of this, consider the ease with which a very sophisticated internet messenger service is developed in Chapter 10. Making this kind of application accessible to undergraduates is quite impressive.
This is a great book, and I will almost certainly use it the next time I teach our networking course.

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Using the Internet for Social Science Research and Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is an ideal starting place for anyone researching the history of the development of the internet, and of the huge social chances it caused.
Comes with a floppy disk!

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E-Business Best Practices: Leveraging Technology for Business Advantage Review

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(More customer reviews)E-Business Best Practices. You are probably wondering: have any best practices been defined yet for E-Business? Well in truth, they probably haven't which is why this book is not about specific best practices but the types of software technology that will help you get there. It's full of simple ideas to help you implement your own drive towards best practice in your business.
The content is targeted at operational business managers, not technologists. It is intended to introduce topics and technologies from a business management perspective, not teach you how to program. However, the content is most likely to appeal to business managers in medium sized enterprises who can't rely on others to implement best practices for them.
Hopefully after reading this book you will have enough knowledge about fundamental E-Business technologies to make you dangerous. Dangerous that is to the salespeople, consultants, pundits and so forth who think E-Business is some kind of mysterious black art that only the initiated can master. It's just business but done better through leveraging the right technology.

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Provides managers with a road map for evaluating e-business technologies and developing winning e-business strategiesIn a world where you're either in e-business or out of business, this book is an indispensable resource for companies to see what ways e-business technology is being implemented with the best results. E-Business Best Practices is not an implementation guide, but a road map for business exchange agents and employees charged with figuring out e-business strategies and evaluating e-business software. Written by a business technology consultant who, over the past twenty years, has worked with dozens of companies in the United States and Europe, this book provides readers with a comprehensive look at best practices in e-business technology around the world.Stewart McKie (Shaftesbury, UK) has been in the business of marketing, implementing, and designing business management software since 1982. He is the Technology Editor for Business Finance magazine and the author of Wiley's Client/Server Accounting (0-471-15784-8).

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e-Business Essentials: Successful e-Business Practices - From the Experts at PC Magazine Review

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(More customer reviews)Confused over jargons and buzzwords such as CRM, MRO, B2B, B2E, e-Procurement? Loss in conversations about doing business over the Internet? Need a jump-start in understanding what e-Business and e-Commerce is all about? Then look no further. "E-Business Essentials" by Frank J Derfler may be the book you are looking for.
This book is probably the first of its kind that stresses on the importance of relationships in e-Business - relationships between your company and its customers, suppliers and employees. These relationships are the cornerstone to the three major building blocks of e-Business, Business to Consumer, Business to Business and Business to Employees. Each of these building blocks is discussed in details in its own section, substantiated with interesting real world case studies.
This book does not attempt to be a `how-to' manual. There are little or no technical design or architecture diagrams and definitely no code examples. Its main emphasis is on the `whys' and the `whats' of e-Business. Buzzwords and important concepts are conspicuously marked and defined in the margins of pages that discuss them.
Although written primarily for those with little or no exposure to the subject, it is by no means a 'Dummies' book. While it is written in layman's language and a style that is easy to understand, there are enough details to challenge the intellect. It will definitely lay a good foundation in the understanding of the fundamentals. Even those who have been in e-Business for a while will find this book refreshing and well organized.

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Wireless Security and Privacy: Best Practices and Design Techniques Review

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(More customer reviews)The title of a book needs to be a contract the authors make with the reader. This book is an introduction to wireless with a general coverage of security and a privacy chapter glommed on dressed up as a wireless book. Wireless is such a complex and important issue, that is just wrong to do. The afterword, the future of wireless is essentially content free.
The book is well written, well researched, uses layout and illustrations well and if you are a novice to information security is probably worth hauling on the plane to read.
However, even then beware, one of the major topics appears to be invented by the authors and is passed on as security craft. The I-ADD section is a feature of the book. I had never heard of I-ADD and I do not have a life, all I do is information security. I tried to look it up with google, no results at least through the 3rd page. I wrote ten of my friends in the field, no hits. I tried to look it up in the "bible", Dr. Matt Bishop's 1,000 page, five years in the making, Computer Security Art and Science. I went through Wireless Security and Privacy's bibliography and while there might be a reference I missed, it certainly is not supported to the degree it should be to be so strongly featured in the book. I completely agree that we need thought models to help understand the complex issues of information security, but it would be much more appropriate to use something standard such as Plan Do Check Act (PDCA) from BS7799/ISO-17799.
If you are in the risk management business, the targets and roles that are enumerated in chapter 9 could be worth the price of the book for your trade.
In general, if you are interested in wireless, I would pass on this one, but there is another book by the same major publisher, Pearson Press, How Secure Is Your Wireless Network? by Lee Barkin that is worth a look.

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Written for wireless development professionals new to security, and for security professionals moving into the wireless arena. Presents the foundation upon which to design and develop secure wireless systems. Softcover.

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CCIE Top Success Secrets and Best Practices: CCIE Experts Share The World's Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Greatest Tips Review

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(More customer reviews)This book contains information freely available via internet CCIE-related forums. Information mostly outdated and not covering modern trends.

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Addresses the top consultancy & education forum questions, with tips & success factors on investigating, evaluating, attaining & capitalising on Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) IT certification.

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Electronic Texts in the Humanities: Principles and Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)Hockey has been involved in the use of computers for the humanities since the 1980s. This is her most recent book. It is directed towards a reader majoring in the humanities, who needs some guidance with computing. The book is brief, and summarises what can be done in terms of preparing manuscripts for journals, many of which nowadays offer and may actually prefer electronic submission.
But Hockey also discusses how once papers have been put into electronic form, they can be analysed. At various levels of semantic/linguistic parsing. The computer science jargon is minimised, for which some readers should be grateful. The ideas are explained clearly.

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This book introduces a range of tools and techniques for manipulating and analyzing electronic texts in the humanities. It shows how electronic texts can be used for the literary analysis, linguistic analysis, authorship attribution, and the preparation and publication of electronic scholarly editions. It also assesses the ways in which research in corpus and computational linguistics can feed into better electronic tools for humanities research.

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The IC Bus: From Theory to Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)Regretfully, I have to say that "The I2C Bus from Theory to Practice" book is a bit of a disappointment for me. I've been reading these past 2 months the Philip's I2C related documents in PDF format, which I downloaded from the Internet. It seemed to me at the time that apart from the description of the protocol, there are some notes and maybe "hidden" facts, which are not described in the formal description of the protocol and so, I started to look for a book on the subject. Luckily I found one book (the only book) and hoped that it would elaborate on the I2C subject. I discovered that indeed this book justified its title and gave the required theory description, and practical examples as promised. But the theory is mostly copied/pasted out of the Philip's I2C bus protocol description with some additional notes added to it, and the overall description is nicely divided into chapters and chapter-parts which is maybe more readable for the 1'st time reader. As for the I2C practice, or practical information, again I was disappointed to find that some parts of the Philip's PDF's were inserted again ( as the PCF8584) which is almost fully described in the book. I think it would have been more appropriate to point out pointers for these PDF's (although it was mentioned once in the book that some material is taken from these documents) on the Philip's Internet site. I think the authors meant to give some practical examples by that, but I felt that it was just for filling out some more pages on the book (like an LP record's last 3 or 4 song tracks.) The appendix of the book was very disappointing and I didn't understand why I need these "printed circuits" low quality prints at the end of the book (pages 287-294) or maybe it was just to fill some blanks. The SW examples given out with the floppy disk were not so well documented and also some of it was in French anyways. All in all, this book was not what I thought it would be and that is a shame because it is the only book, which I found on the I2C subject on the Web. Maybe the authors wrote most of the documents in the Philip's PDF's and wanted to publish it in hard copy... (see title of this letter.) But, if you did purchase this book, you can always put it on the bookshelf because it has a nice respectable hard cover.

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The Internet for Radiology Practice Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this book more for the price than anything else, but was very pleasantly surprised with the content. It covers everything I needed. Now that our practice is becoming more 'online' as the pundits say, all of our MDs are requried to have an understanding of the internet. This little book allowed all of us to get online, understand what we were doing and get the information that our patient's have access to! Thanks!

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The Internet has proven to be a great resource for the medical community. It has specifically had a great impact on the practice of Radiology. It has enabled the proliferation, installation, and acceptance of adjunct technologies such as Picture Archiving (PACS), electronic medical record (EMR) and Voice Recognition (VR). The number of radiology-specific web sites just 5 years ago was about 30. A recent compilation now numbers in the thousands. Computer technology and the Internet have revolutionized the way radiologists work on a daily basis. All aspects of the Internet and related technologies are explained in this book.

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Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age Review

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(More customer reviews)Any manager who lets his technical people build a security program without the rational kind of road map this book offers is asking to be "owned", that is, to be hacked, his Web site defaced, his firm's data trashed. Never, never wade into the muddy waters of cybersecurity without a good plan.
This book is that plan: risk formulas, the nature of the threats, key tenets of a security program, key steps in constructing one, important policies to have, key steps in formulating a policy, key goals in information security, kinds of architecture to consider, kinds of infrastructure that underlie the program, steps in the life cycle for developing a secure system.
Talk about comprehensive. A great way to introduce yourself to security from a high level view or to start building security for your organization.

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Is your e-business secure? Have you done everything you can to protect your enterprise and your customers from the potential exploits of hackers, crackers, and other cyberspace menaces? As we expand the brave new world of e-commerce, we are confronted with a whole new set of security problems. Dealing with the risks of Internet applications and e-commerce requires new ways of thinking about security. Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age presents an overview of security programs, policies, goals, life cycle development issues, infrastructure, and architecture aimed at enabling you to effectively implement security at your organization. In addition to discussing general issues and solutions, the book provides concrete examples and templates for crafting or revamping your security program in the form of an Enterprise-Wide Security Program Model, and an Information Security Policy Framework. Although rich in technical expertise, this is not strictly a handbook of Internet technologies, but a guide that is equally useful for developing policies, procedures, and standards. The book touches all the bases you need to build a secure enterprise. Drawing on the experience of the world-class METASeS consulting team in building and advising on security programs, Secure Internet Practices: Best Practices for Securing Systems in the Internet and e-Business Age shows you how to create a workable security program to protect your organization's Internet risk.

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Cisco CCNA Exam #640-607 Flash Card Practice Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)A good tool to help in the questions it asks.
The test engine is broken however. It has multiple choice buttons where you clearly need to select more than one answer, yet can only choose one. Some questions are totally wrong, so verify each wrong answer you get from the test engine before you count it or commit it to memory for the CCNA.
It is good in helping you understand the type of questions you will encounter, from CLI, to move boxes around, to type out the answers. (Spelling does count and I have been told it does on the CCNA as well.) The fact that if you type "router" and it wants "routers" is just wrong and messed up. Many questions have been missed because I typed "Spanning-tree" and it wanted "Spanning-tree protocol". Note it will not take STP either. IMHO: A serious flaw in Cisco's testing and this flash card kit. One note I recommend. Hand Write all your flash cards. Don't rely on the print outs. You will have better retention.
For the money, it is worth a buy. It is helpful in orienting you to the new 607 test format. If nothing else, it forces you to double check your wrong answers. Just don't count on it to be totally accurate and don't let it's flawed low test scores discourage you.

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More than 900 flash cards, practice questions, and study sheets for CCNA exam #640-607 preparation

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CCNA test time is rapidly approaching. You've learned the concepts, you have the experience to put them into real-world use, and now you want to practice, practice, practice until exam time. Cisco CCNA Exam #640-607 Flash Card Practice Kit gives you three methods of proven late-stage CCNA exam preparation in one package:

More than 350 flash cards. Test your understanding of CCNA theory with flash cards in print and electronic formats. The electronic version is PC-, Palm OS-, and Pocket PC-compatible, allowing for supreme flexibility. Shuffle the electronic cards, work from preset groups of cards, or create and save your own challenging set for focused review.
550+ practice exam questions. Verify your knowledge with this robust exam engine including more than 500 questions. Test your proficiency in two modes -- study mode and practice mode -- and identify areas of weakness so you can concentrate on specific topics for which you need the most help.
54 study sheets. Review crucial CCNA exam objectives with these comprehensive reference sheets. Succinct text overviews of complex CCNA concepts are supported with detailed diagrams to provide a valuable late-stage review of all that must be mastered for exam success.

Whether you are searching for the ultimate CCNA late-stage test preparation tool or simply need a complete package with at-a-glance, comprehensive information on networking basics, Cisco CCNA Exam #640-607 Flash Card Practice Kit is packed with everything you need to access this information at home, at work, and on the go!

Companion CD-ROMThe CD-ROM contains 350+ flash cards and more than 550 practice test questions. Flash cards are downloadable to Palm OS and Pocket PC handheld devices.

Cisco CCNA Exam #640-607 Flash Card Practice Kit covers all the objectives on the new #640-607 CCNA exam, including cabling Cisco devices, operating and configuring a Cisco IOS device, and managing network environments. Use this kit to brush up on effective techniques for working with the Catalyst 1900 Switch, networking with VLANs, and interconnecting networks with TCP/IP. Flip through the flash cards and test yourself on the details of IP routing, PPP connections, ISDN, and Frame Relay.

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Network+ Practice Test Exam Cram Review

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(More customer reviews)First of all have one thing clear, if you are not an expert in network, or already have a certification (like CNE or MCSE) don't buy only this book. This is a short book that only has sample test for you to feel confortable about the idea of taking the test. Also it is very good to find out where your weaknesses are. For example, I thought that I was clear on the OSI model, until I took the first test. I happens that I had data link and network layer mixed up at some level. So I went back to the other big book I bought (My main source of study, one that has about 800 pages) and read againt he OSI model. If I wouldn't have reviewed it, I would have probably fried out on the test. So all this BLA, BLA, BLA is let you know that you need a BIG BOOK (One that covers all the Network+ Objectives fully) and when you finish reading it, you get this book, sit down and try to answer all the question. When you make a mistake try to find out what went wrong, or what you didn't understand. Please slow down when reading, some questions can be tricky when not fully understood. Hope you pass the test.

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Contains a comprehensive practice test and an answer and explanation chapter at the end of the exam. Provides more than just the correct answers--the explanation chapter also details why the correct answers are right and why the wrong answers are wrong. Gives the reader the competitive edge by quickly showing which areas may require further study.

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Mobile Inter-networking with IPv6: Concepts, Principles and Practices Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a comprehensive book on MIPv6 that blends the theory and practices together with the principles of operations, illustrations, case studies and sample exercises that help the readers to review the chapter. This would be a valuable book for those wireless and mobility professionals who would like to deploy MIPv6 and for those who would like to know the basic principles of MIPv6 and IP-based mobility in general.

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A comprehensive reference on understanding, designing, and implementing IP Mobility
This authoritative reference provides readers with a thorough understanding of IP Mobility using Mobile IPv6 and companion advanced mobility protocols including network mobility and fast handovers. It illustrates basic concepts and principles behind the IP Mobility architecture and covers the practices using detailed protocol description. Of particular importance is how mobile networking will support billions of devices without restricting applications or overburdening network infrastructures, and how it will support the movement of users from network to network without compromising security.
Authors Koodli and Perkins investigate how IP mobility is used in practice and the adoption of Mobile IPv6 in CDMA cellular systems. They also cover some experimental work, including performance of VoIP handovers over WLAN, multi-access network handovers, and emerging topics such as location privacy.
In five parts, Mobile Inter-networking with IPv6 covers:
Features of IPv6 and IP security
Mobility concepts and principles, Mobile IPv6 protocol, packet handling, and network mobility
Advanced mobility protocols, including fast handovers, fast handover protocol, context transfers, and hierarchical mobility management
Applying IP mobility, including Mobile IPv6 in CDMA packet data networks, enterprise mobile networking, and WLAN fast handovers
Emerging topics such as multi-access and mobility, seamless IP handovers, location privacy and IP mobility, and route optimization for Mobile IPv4 using Mobile IPv6 return routability

With chapter exercises and handy references, readers will have plenty of opportunities to pursue topics in further detail. This is a comprehensive reference suitable for practitioners and students with a basic understanding of TCP/IP protocols.

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Networking Lab Practice Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)The book is OK - concise, with good illustrations. It's a detailed study guide rather than the simple lab manual I expected. The complete book is recorded on the CD and set up for web-style browsing. You can search for specific text or click on technical terms to get on-line definitions. Practice tests are also included.
The "interactive real-time virtual simulations" are the disappointing feature. They work like this:
You are presented with a picture of a server desktop and a message at the bottom of the screen tells you where to click. Following the instructions, first you click on the Start Button. Then you click on Programs. Then you click on Administrative Tools. Then you click on a certain utility. Then you click on a menu. Then you click on a tab. Then you click on a button. Congratulations! You are done.
What what happens if you open the wrong utility? You can't. Click in the wrong place? You can't. Want to repeat the exercise without being told where to click? You can't.
These are not exercises that let you apply concepts or learn real-world skills. I realize that any simulation program has limits, but the software in this kit is not something thrown in for free. It is billed as an integral part of the kit. In the introduction the author states, "Your learning experience will be as if you were sitting in front of a server, or directly connected to the console of a Cisco router." Actually, nothing could be farther from the truth.

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Mobil IP: Design Principles and Practices Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is pretty much word for word from RFC 2002. Instead of buying this book you should just grab the rfc for free.

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This book introduces the TCP/IP_savvy reader to the design and implementation of Internet protocols useful for maintaining network connections while moving from place to place. It describes the technology that makes mobile networking possible; in particular, it focuses on Mobile IP, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Standard for mobile networking. Written by Charles E. Perkins, a leader in the mobile networking field, this book discusses: * Mobile IP * Route optimization * IP version 6 * Use of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) * EncapsulationAfter reading Mobile IP, a network engineer will be able to produce implementations of Mobile IP for mobile nodes, foreign agents, and home agents. As with any Internet protocol, mobile IP requires precise handling of packetized control data; all of the needed steps for that handling are detailed fully in this book. The necessary control mechanisms for processing advertisements (perhaps received over wireless media) are given first, followed by the main part of the Mobile IP protocol, which addresses how the mobile node registers its current IP attachment information with the support infrastructure on its home network.This book also details how Mobile IP specifies the handling of data packets destined for the mobile node.In addition to the base protocol, this book also presents newly specified enhancements to Mobile IP, and details the protocol support needed for enabling mobile networks using IPv6, the new version of IP with 128-bit addresses. Interactions between Mobile IP and other protocols (such as DHCP) are described, enabling network engineers to get a complete understanding of the system effects of deploying Mobile IP in enterprise networks. Other current trends in protocol development relevant to Mobile IP are also described, such as ways to reduce registration traffic with the home network, and first steps towards integrating Mobile IP with enterprise security installations such as firewalls and border routers.0201634694B04062001

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