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. Doesn't preach one platform or the other.

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