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Recently, I found out about Ryan Davis, a network engineer at the University of Missouri. He’s publishing a personal blog dealing in large part with network engineering called RyanDavis.net, and one of his first posts is a review of O’Reilly Publishing’s “Network Warrior: Everything you need to know that wasn’t on the CCNA exam”
Here’s a quick excerpt, but if you’re interested, you really should read the whole thing at RyanDavis.net:
Network Warrior bills itself as “Everything you need to know that wasn’t on the CCNA exam” and that claim is quite accurate. The book is very Cisco centric, both covering configuration examples in CatOS (considered by most to be deprecated) and IOS. While I don’t come from a Cisco background (but just about every other background) I still found this book very enjoyable because it combined the Why with the How. I should explain…
Most books on network engineering topics, or even computer or technical topics in general, usually cover one of two sides of the field; either the history and theory behind a technology, or the implementation and maintenance of its solutions. I feel like this book joins the two. In doing so it really fills in the gaps that I found in my expertise where I either knew about something, but not how to do it, or vice versa. By creating a bridge between the two, author Gary A. Donahue provides the catalyst for several of those “Ah-Ha!” moments, even for seasoned professionals.
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