Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 11:43:44 -0600 From: John Kristoff <jtk@ultradns.net> Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:16:47 -0200 "MARLON BORBA" <MBORBA@trf3.gov.br> wrote:
I am in search of a good book about Network Architecture and Design, with emphasis in Quality of Service and convergent networks, to be used as a reference. Could you please indcate your favorites?
Some might say those two mutually exclusive sets, but here are some of my favorite general reference networking books good for most any netop's library (in no particular order):
An Engineering Approach to Computer Networks S. Keshav
TCP/IP Illustrated: Volume I W. Richard Steves
Internet Core Protocols Eric A. Hall
Interconnections: 2nd Edition Radia Perlman
Computer Networks: A Systems Approach Larry Peterson and Bruce Davie
If you want something specific to vendor hardware and configurations I'm sure others will be happy to suggest their favorites, personally I don't generally find those sorts of texts as useful so I can't really speak to any of the multitude available.
John
I can recommend all of these except Peterson/Davie which I have not read, but Richard (Rick) Steves writes travel books. TCP/IP Illustrated: Vol. 1 was written by the late W. Richard Stevens. (Actually, this was probably a typo and not confusion.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751