Rating: 

foward their 'tradition' of precise cogent publications

for computer professionals.

The book's breadth is wonderful - it can be useful to

the casual router user but it seems also to have enough

material that even someone as advanced as a CCIE would

probably find this a handy instrument.

As a manager who occassionally is involved in the complexity

of networking minutiae, this book was perfect. I could

simply review a concept by checking the index and then

proceeding to the salient page.

The book also had an excellent introduction to basic

router hardware and configuration file upkeep. It also

had an thorough section on static routing and associated

routing masks in chapter 5.

I had my staff Networking engineer review this book also - he

too thought it was excellent. So good, in fact, that he's

planning to purchase his own personal copy. One of his remarks

was that this book covers many subjects that cisco itself fails

to cover in their website.

Overall, this is one of the best O'Reilly books I've ever

read - and I've been buying them since 1986.