From: thomas larus (tlarus@xxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Apr 24 2002 - 16:05:58 GMT-3
I might well be mistaken about his precise position with Cisco, but that was my
impression.
As for free examples on CCO, I have a printed set of the 12.1 IOS docs (I like
reading from a book, where possible), and do not find many useful examples, cer
tainly not scenarios with diagrams and configs, in the command reference volum
es. The useful examples are in the configuration guide volumes, and there are
not enough of them when it comes to BGP. Parkhurst offers a little scenario fo
r each command (not every command, but most), and I really find that useful. T
he problem with the approach is that there is necessarily some redundancy. The
same sort of scenarios might be used for different command options, since the
book is intended to be used as a reference book and not as a textbook.
Yes, if if you look all over CCO, on TAC, and elsewhere, you can find lots of e
xcellent examples for free, but I still have not found anything like what Parkh
urst offers in this BGP book.
I don't think it fair to call it a cut-and-paste job, unless you can cite the p
ages of CCO that his diagrams and configs are cut and pasted from. If you can
cite those, you could save a lot of people some real money.
As someone else mentioned, different people learn well from different resources
. I personally find this BGP book approachable and interesting, and light to p
ick up (which makes a difference sometimes.)
>>> "DAve Diaz" <ddiaz106@hotmail.com> 04/24/02 00:37 AM >>>
check out the detailed cco command reference you find find examples as well
for free,
>From: "Tim O'Brien" <tobrien@cinci.rr.com>
>Reply-To: "Tim O'Brien" <tobrien@cinci.rr.com>
>To: "DAve Diaz" <ddiaz106@hotmail.com>, <ccelab@groupstudy.com>
>Subject: RE: OT: New OSPF book by Parkhurst
>Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 19:05:26 -0400
>
>Dave,
>
>One think I liked about his BGP book was that he had real examples of each
>command that really helped me reinforce my understanding of how the command
>worked and when/why it was used. Does he do this in his OSPF book also?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Tim
>CCIE 9015
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
>DAve Diaz
>Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 6:45 PM
>To: Upp_and_Upp@hotmail.com; ccielab@groupstudy.com
>Subject: Re: OT: New OSPF book by Parkhurst
>
>
>one of the poorest books you will ever get, cut/paste job from cisco cco,
>check out the ospf design guide which is free or the local newspaper shop
>for better reading
>
>
>
> >From: "Sean C" <Upp_and_Upp@hotmail.com>
> >Reply-To: "Sean C" <Upp_and_Upp@hotmail.com>
> >To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> >Subject: OT: New OSPF book by Parkhurst
> >Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 12:48:53 -0400
> >
> >Hello all,
> >
> >I'm writing this while realizing the book was just published, but I'm
> >curious
> >to know if anyone has gone through the new CiscoPress OSPF book by
> >Parkhurst?
> >
> >http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/search?q=1587050714&t=ISBN&x=15&y=12
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Sean
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