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https://www.amazon.com/Foundations-Modern-Networking-SDN-Clo... https://www.amazon.com/Cloud-Networking-Understanding-Cloud-... https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int... https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Guide-Comprehensive-Illustrated-P...

After spending a lot of time trying to find resources to get up to speed on this networks domain for work, those are the best resources I've found.

⬐ fapjacks

I have the TCP/IP Guide you mention and I'd recommend it, also. I'd also suggest if the asker buys the Interconnections book, that they also go ahead and buy the TCP/IP Illustrated (volumes I-III) as well. They are textbooks, to be sure, but if you find this stuff interesting, you'll be happy to have them. Very high knowledge density, though a bit outdated. And while we're talking about some of those old textbooks, I'd recommend the newest editions of the Unix Network Programming books [0], the earlier editions of which were really helpful to me when I was learning this stuff way back in the day. I'm a huge fan of textbooks, so maybe I'm going a bit overboard, but I did really enjoy them.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/013490012X/

The book that I recommend for Networking, and that has been recommended to me by every fulltime NetEng I've ever asked, has been Interconnections.

https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int...

Yes, the material is a bit dated. Yes, it won't give you the ins and outs of what you need to know. What it will give you is the why and from there you can figure out everything else you need to know.

⬐ signa11

for networking, my _personal_ favorite is 'network algorithmics' by george-varghese. basically, i find it to combine topics from a variety of cs disciplines including (but not limited to) computer architecture, algorithms, data-structures and to some extent, compilers as well.

⬐ busterarm

That's usually the second book recommendation I would get.

⬐ signa11

:) indeed.

the trouble with books like these is that, you get sucked into it/them, and can spend literally months on end going through them, working the exercises, reading reference papers etc. etc. it is megafun ;)

to me at least, the books might _appear_ to be dated, but the vantage point they offer to inspect the networking landscape is invaluable. in some ways, as john-barth says in 'chimera':

"the real magic is to understand which words work, and when, and for what; the trick is to learn the trick. ... and those words are made from the letters of our alphabet; a couple-dozen squiggles we can draw with a pen. this is the key! and the treasure, too, if we can only get our hands on it! it's as if - as if the key to the treasure is the treasure!"

Radia Perlman also wrote a great (and fun!) book on networking: https://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Int...

Digging through my piles of books, it's this one, outdated if you're interested in current stuff.

Interconnections Bridges Switches and Internetworking Protocols by Radia Perlman

http://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Inte... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radia_Perlman

Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols (2nd Edition) Radia Perlman http://www.amazon.com/dp/0201634481/

This book explains how conventions in data networking were established, how words became used as the terms for particular obvious but slightly ambiguous concepts, e.g. 'names' vs 'addresses', bridging vs routing. It also puts IP in to context viz. other LAN protocols before it became dominant. Recommended.

I presume you're referring to this book? http://www.amazon.com/Interconnections-Bridges-Switches-Inte...

(I'm posting the link here because it took some searching to find the right book and in its current edition).

⬐ johnzabroski

Yes, that is it. Obviously my rendition of the paraphrasing is not as well said as her actual quote, but you get the idea.