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Title: Implement Virtual Private Networks by Steven Brown ISBN: 0-07-135185-X Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Long and repetitive
Comment: I purchased this book about the time it came out but I never had time to read it. Recently I found VPNs crossing my path so it was time to pull it off the shelf.
A few comments. First, as you read this book you get a sense that it is out of date. Not surprising given the rate at which technology progresses.
I found the book very repetitive. It seemed entire sections would repeat content from the previous sections. Perhaps I'm getting old but I just found it hard to extract information from this book easily. It seemed that it would never get right to the point and would drone on and leave you without the answers.
Rating: 1
Summary: Book gets 4 stars, format gets -5 stars.
Comment: After reading most of Steve Brown's book on VPNs, I have to admit that it is well written and informative. The first few chapters are a little slow, but overall the book gives a well-rounded picture of VPN technology.
However, I will forever associate this book with one of the worst shopping experiences of my life. Buying an e-book is the worst possible thing you could ever do. The text is poorly rendered, making your eyes tire more quickly. The highlight and annotation features are clumsily implemented, and generally useless. Then, to top off all of the smaller, forgivable faults, is the supposed copyright protection. In order to protect the book's copyright, a very valid concern, the writers of Adobe's e-book reader, decided to make the books a one-shot, one computer deal. Sure you can read the book as many times as you would like, just as long as the computer you have now is the only computer you'll ever have for the rest of your life. I have found Amazon to be helpful when I requested permission to download the book a second time, but the fact that I had to do this is offensive. The primary focus of this book was security, something that the authors of the e-book program obviously knew nothing about. There has to be some reliable way to allow the rightful owner of the book to transfer it from one computer to another, in the same way that most software licenses allow, without critically endangering the author's intellectual property. In my opinion, a book that cost half as much as my hard drive should not be left to the mercy of that hard drive or my limited backup equipment.
In short, buy this book as a REAL book if you can find it, but DON'T EVER buy an e-book. Unless, of course, you have that ever elusive PC that will never need to be replaced, restored, or updated.
Rating: 3
Summary: A bit dry but covers the basics VERY well
Comment: You'll understand the concepts if not exactly the execution of VPNs and the various methods of implementing them. Be sure to get training specific to your product and methodology before considering this your only purchase.
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Title: Virtual Private Networking: A View From the Trenches by Bruce Perlmutter, Jonathan Zarkower, Jonathan L. Zarkower ISBN: 0130203351 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 19 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $44.99 |
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Title: Virtual Private Networks, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly Nutshell) by Paul Wolfe, Charlie Scott, Mike Erwin ISBN: 1565925297 Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates Pub. Date: December, 1998 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Virtual Private Networks for Dummies by Mark S. Merkow ISBN: 0764505904 Publisher: For Dummies Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $24.99 |
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Title: Creating and Implementing Virtual Private Networks: The All-encompassing Resource for Implementing VPNs by Casey Wilson, Peter Doak ISBN: 1576104303 Publisher: The Coriolis Group Pub. Date: 12 November, 1999 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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Title: VPNs: A Beginner's Guide by John L. Mairs ISBN: 0072191813 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Pub. Date: 14 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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