Computer Networks: A Systems Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

This should be considered the go-to textbook for faculty teaching networking.The text is great - take that for granted.Let me focus instead on adopting this book as an instructor. The instructor materials are top notch with (overly wordy and poorly laid out but very good technical content) slides presented in both top-down and bottom-up orders. All questions have clear answers online. There is a massive amount of laboratory material available as well.As an instructor, you hope your text choice will be worthy of a student keeping. I believe they will keep this book.

This was a textbook for a class, and it was perfect for the class. We were looking at protocols, and this provided info on tons of protocols, walking through exactly how they work. This is not for the system administrator, but if you are designing a new Internet application, this will help in identifying and selecting the appropriate protocols for your needs. Or your apps needs.

I ordered this textbook as a hardcover in new condition, however upon arrival the cover was damaged in multiple places. Otherwise it was all good

Had no previous background in networking and this book presents the topics very well. It's great because it describes the topics from first principles and does not simply tell you what each technology is. For the first time I'm able to link together the different technologies I hear about and can see how they all work together to building a fully functional network

This book isn't great at explaining things. I feel like they go in circles in their explanations of topics. Also, to solve the practice problems you need to have five pages of the book open at once. I literally have 5 different bookmarks and have to flip back and forth between them to solve one practice problem. I feel like this book isn't structured well.

This book explains every part of computer network in details, that makes it boring. But if you want to dive deep in network engineering, it is a great book to start with.

While this book seems thorough and informative, the editor of the book clearly missed quite a few errors. Many of the mathematical equations/concepts within the book are missing one or more operator (= < > * ^ + -, etc). I bought this book as a textbook for one of my classes, and we are required to use many of these equations, and understand the concepts. It is quite frustrating when the equations are incomplete, and I must go online to determine the complete equation. Not to mention, some of the exercise questions are also missing parts of the equations. The content of the book is excellent and the concepts are presented in a manner easy to understand, but the lack of proof-reading is a glaring mistake. I do not expect such sloppy and lazy editing to be present in a graduate-level textbook. It makes this book difficult and choppy to read, as I am constantly having to stop and figure out if an equation should have a '=' or a '<' symbol in it, or if two number should be added or multiplied together.

I found this book very helpful for my college Networks course because it does a great job of teaching concepts simply, and not dragging on too long about one topic, making it pretty easy to read compared to most textbooks, without losing it's instructional value.