While not the stevens book, "the illustrated network" isbn 978-0-12-374541-5 was a pretty good attempt to do a modern version of the same. any book that attempts to cover all layers of the stack is going to have it's limits, but it has saved my bacon a couple of times now...
The author is normally a juniper press author and as a result the examples that aren't done on freebsd or linux systems are done on junos which is either a benifit or a drawback depending on your environment. disclaimer, I did review it for content/accuracy, but wasn't compensated for doing so. joel On 04/02/2010 05:09 AM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: > > This morning I went digging for a book to recommend that someone in > our NOC read in order to understand at a high level how Internet > infrastructure works (bgp, igps, etc) and discovered that the old > standbys (Huitema, Halabi, Perlman) have all not been updated in a > decade or so. > > On the one hand, they're all still quite relevant since there hasn't > been anything really earth-shattering in that department, but they are > all going to be lean to nonexistent on stuff like IPv6 and NLRI negotiation. > > So, what are you having your up-and-coming NOC staff read? > > Thanks, > > -r > > >
