On Apr 2, 2010, at 7:09 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a decade or so.
On the one hand, they're all still quite relevant since there hasn't been anything really earth-shattering in that department, but they are all going to be lean to nonexistent on stuff like IPv6 and NLRI negotiation.
So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read?
Thanks,
-r
It kind of depends on what you want from your NOC folk and (at least a little bit) which "level" NOC people need the resource. In addition to the ones already listed, we encourage Tier 1 and Tier 2 people to read and understand these two books: T1: A Survival Guide http://www.amazon.com/T1-Survival-Guide-Matthew-Gast/dp/0596001274/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270216284&sr=8-1 Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide http://www.amazon.com/Network-Maintenance-Troubleshooting-Guide-Solutions/dp/0321647416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1270216655&sr=1-1 We find these are both pretty solid resources, especially for our Tier 1 folks. Since much of what they eventually deal with are Layer 1 problems, having resources that focus on Layer 1 helps get their mind moving that direction. If we have a routing problem, that generally needs to get bumped up anyway since it means somethings misconfigured or a routing protocol is acting up. -- Brad Fleming