Re: A question for the NG
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Posted by stephen on December 11, 2006, 5:58 pm
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> > Of course, any such revision would correct all known errors, and > generally provide an editorial "freshening up." Obvious additional > material includes RSTP and MSTP, and more depth on multi-layer > switching, but I would like to hear what else people working in the > field are looking for. The people in this NG are an important segment of > the target readership. i would like to see something like the RFC schema - depreciated, best practice and so on. Often the reasoning that explains the choices makes it much easier to pick a good way to do something. (or if you are paranoid, easier to avoid a bad way). >
> Also, I welcome your input as to whether the chapters "Bridging Between > Technologies" (Chapter 3, on the problems of bridging among Ethernet, > Token Ring and FDDI) and "Source Route Bridging" (Chapter 6) should be > discarded, moved to an Appendix, or left as they are, with a note about > their purely historical importance. it is still out there - but the IBM redbooks were still on line last time i checked. maybe the equivalent for 802.11? >
> I make no promises as to what material will be added, or whether a > second edition will even be produced, but I thought I would take this > opportunity to get input from the people that actually use my books > before signing off on a Table of Contents for a revised edition. stacked VLANs, Ethernet as a WAN technology and what that means to how you debug it etc. which flavour of spanning tree actually is least dangerous....? >
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> Feel free to respond either on the newsgroup, or via private email. > Thank you all in advance. > > -- > Rich Seifert Networks and Communications Consulting > 21885 Bear Creek Way > (408) 395-5700 Los Gatos, CA 95033 > (408) 228-0803 FAX > > Send replies to: usenet at richseifert dot com Regards stephen_hope@xyzworld.com - replace xyz with ntl | ||||||||||
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> creating a revised, second edition of that work. I would be interested
> to hear what changes you think need to be made to bring the book
> up-to-date.