Ethernet: All about the Physical Layer

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Book:		Ethernet: The Definitive Guide
Subject:		Ethernet: All about the Physical Layer
Date:		2007-02-12 11:10:06
From:		Duffy

Rating: To be honest the title page lead me to believe that designing and managing local area networks would actually involve more than what the book covered. For instance, I expected something about RIP or OSPF routing, instead you get a simple pargraph or two about spanning trees and nothing of substance about SNMP. Hardly, the comprehensive book I thought it would be. Where the book does shine is about the exhaustive detail about the various connectors, and differences in the 802.3 standards for ethernet, fast ethernet, gigabit ethernet and the subsets of cabling standards. With that in mind, the book is very comprehensive about the ethernet standard; but the same cannot be said of the management techniques that are above the physical layer.