The illustrated network
In 1994, W. Richard Stevens and Addison-Wesley published a networking classic: TCP/IP Illustrated. The model for that book was a brilliant, unfettered approach to networking concepts that has proven itself over time to be popular with readers of beginning to intermediate networking knowledge. The Illustrated Network takes this time-honored approach and modernizes it by creating not only a much larger and more complicated network, but also by incorporating all the networking advancements that have taken place since the mid-1990s, which are many. This book takes the popular Stevens approach and modernizes it, employing 2008 equipment, operating systems, and router vendors. It presents an?illustrated? explanation of how TCP/IP works with consistent examples from a real, working network configuration that includes servers, routers, and workstations. Diagnostic traces allow the reader to follow the discussion with unprecedented clarity and precision. True to the title of the book, there are 330+ diagrams and screen shots, as well as topology diagrams and a unique repeating chapter opening diagram. Illustrations are also used as end-of-chapter questions. A complete and modern network was assembled to write this book, with all the material coming from real objects connected and running on the network, not assumptions. Presents a real world networking scenario the way the reader sees them in a device-agnostic world.
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What Hacker News says
- You (and everyone else on HN) want The Illustrated Network.
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Network-How-Works-Modern/...
The previous best book was TCPIP Illustrated. The author of Illustrated Network was a fan of TCPIP Illustrated and wrote their book as a modern equivalent.
Excerpt:
https://wgoralski.com//wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Illustrate...
- This might be what you are looking for;
The Illustrated Network: How TCP/IP Works in a Modern Network by Walter Goralski.
Take a good look at the ToC, covers a lot of different aspects of a "Modern Network". Start with this and then follow up with other detailed books some of which are mentioned in my other comment in this thread.
- I liked
The Illustrated Network: How TCP/IP Works in a Modern Network https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Network-How-Works-Modern/...
- Linux: Unix and Linux System Aministrator's handbook ('the green book' or 'the purple book')
Networking: 'TCPIP Illustrated' or it's unofficial follow up 'The Illustrated Network'
TLS: 'Bulletproof SSL' ('the Ristic book')
- Every couple of decades or so there's a single classic text which most people regard as a classic.
Examples would be:
- Unix and Linux: The 'UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook' (aka the Unix 'purple book' or the Linux 'green book')
- Networking: 'TCPIP Illustrated' and the unofficial sequel 'The Illustrated Network'.
What's the book for your subject?
- We love you Ivan!
'Bulletproof SSL and TLS' joins 'The Illustrated Network' and the 'Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook' as the 'if you're going to read one book' book for its topic. Which is a massive achievement.
Random question from another HN thread: did a 4096 bit RSA used to be required to get A+?
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