From: Greg Ferro (gferro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Apr 18 2001 - 01:58:45 GMT-3
I would like to add that reading worked very well for me also. At one
stage, I caught myself looking for trips away from home so that I could get
more reading done. I reackon I did one hour reading for one hour lab time.
I also agree very strongly with the what you read. I read:
Interconnections by Radia Perlman at least 5 times from cover to cover
before I grokked all that she was saying. Not only the info, but why
something is what it is, and what alternatives might have been. Really
challenging book.
Routing in the Internet by Huitema was an excellent backgrounder in why the
Internet looks like it does. There IS a reason for BGP.
Cisco IOS 12.0 documentation manuals- a few things, I find reading a book a
bit easier than the screen sometimes, you can read it anywhere and these
books have some very well written summary sections that I have never seen
anywhere else. Don't buy them online, buy them from Cisco or the
distributor and get your discount applied. Plus the boss can pay for them.
I read all of these once, the summary sections more than once. This is the
same as reading the Doco CD more or less.
Cisco Press books - Quality of Service, Advanced IP Network Design, Voice
over IP, IOS Software Architecture - let me understand a whole lot of
things I couldn't learn just from lab time.
Doyle and Halabi. of course.
Caslow BRS, a must. Where else will you learn Frame Relay INARP ?
DLSW Deisgn and IMplementation Guide.
PLus Cisco White papers and TAC web site. I printed a lot of this out and
bound them into a book. I have about 4 inches of this.
I found that reading helped ME to understand what I was doing. Maybe it
will work for you too.
> >
> > 2. It's not how much you read, it's what you read.
> > Learn to sort the wheat from the chaff
> > quickly. Only 1 in 10 books out there is even worth
> > reading. As for me, for nearly a
> > year I carried a backpack around with the latest
> > book I was reading in it. I read 14,000
> > pages cover to cover in 9 months; every spare moment
> > was reading.
> >
Regards
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