If you're already dreaming "I wanna be a CCIE" then I highly recommend reading the following books.
(with Author, Title, Publisher, Notes)
Note: The Apple-book is not a must-have anymore
A great source of info is an appendix of Cisco's CIT- and CID-course.
The appendix
is called "Protocol characteristics overview" and carries condensed
info about almost
all protocols and technologies (with very few exceptions)
(you can download this list, click here )
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Andrew Bruce Caslow
Prentice-Hall This is the second-edition
!!
ISBN: 0-13-090389-2 Price in USA: 69.99 $
This is the best book for
Cisco Certification the LAB preparation ! A must have
!!!
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Stephen Hutnik & Michael Satterlee
McGrawHill (One of the authors is only
CCNA)
ISBN: 0-07-135108-6 Price in US: 80
Second-best prep book. A must have too.
CCIE Lab Study Guide But: No X25-, no DEC-, no ATM-Chapters
(which is not
much of a problem)
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Douglas E. Comer
TCP/IP Volume 1
Prentice-Hall
ISBN: 0-13-474321-0
This is the so-called "TCP-Bible".BTW: Volumes
2 and 3 are NOT recommended
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Appendix A ("Protocol Characteristics Overview")
of Cisco's CIT or CID course
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Radia Perlman
(second edition)
Interconnections
Radia Perlman
Addisson-Wesley
ISBN: 0-201-63448-1
Price in US: 60 $
(also available in german language,
Interconnections - Bridges+Routers but not recommended)
Radia Perlman invented the Spanning Tree Algorithm
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Linda Chappell
Novell Press/Sybex
ISBN: 0-7821-1362-1 Price in USA: 44.99 $
very good book on IPX with Analyser-
The Netware LANanalysis traces
(out of print, hard to get, but some still have luck)
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Bassam Halabi
Internet Routing Architectures
Cisco Press
ISBN: 1-56205-652-2 Price in USA: 55.00 $
It's focus is on BGP only
(Bassam is/was one of the key cisco IOS engineers and has co/written
the
IOS code for OSPF and BGP4)
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Rossi & Rossi
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-134982-0 Price in US: 55 $
Good stuff about VLANs and trunking,
Cisco Catalyst LAN Switching LANE and other advanced configs
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Thomas & Thomas
OSPF Network Design Solutions
Cisco Press
ISBN: 1-57870-046-9 Price in US: 55 $
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Robert Caputo
Cisco Packetized Voice and Data Integration
McGraw-Hill
ISBN: 0-07-134777-1 Price
in US: 55 $
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OSPF: Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol
John T. Moy
Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0201634724 Price at Amazon: 48 $
John Moy is the inventor of OSPF
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Here's a very interesting SNA book for german readers:
Hugo Schröer/Thomas Stalke
Die Netzwerkarchitektur SNA
Vieweg Verlag
ISBN: 3-528-05390-2
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And here are 2 multicast study books:
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Deploying IP Multicast in the Enterprise
Thomas A. Maufer
Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0-13-897687-2
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Developing IP Multicast Networks Vol. I
Beau Williamson
Cisco Press
ISBN: 1-57870-077-9
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If someone knows a good book about legacy SNA
I would be greatful to get the details.