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From: guru@FLORA.WUSTL.EDU (Gurudatta Parulkar)
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Subject: Re: Davidson's book vs. Comer's book
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Date: 18 May 88 21:01:23 GMT
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>>is why I turned to Comer's book. Comer's book is MUCH better although some
>>of the chapters (specifically those dealing with routing) didn't feel rig
>> [Stuff Deleted]

    >No, I felt the same way.  The chapter on routing is too brief and left
    [Stuff Deleted]

    I enjoyed Doug's book also, and thought the "Hints to Implementors"
    was a great idea (there should be a 10 Most Deadly Sins RFC [like don't
    [Stuff Deleted]


This spring, I used Doug's book as a supplementary text for a computer
networking course (I had a prepublished version) with Stallings book
as the main text. As a supplementary text, it turned out excellent as
students understood the ARPA internet protocols well. However, I am
still not sure if it will be a satisfactory text by itself for a
course because of its lack of treatment of fundamental networking
principles, lack of good exercises, and its treatment of only TCP/IP.

Is anybody planning to use it as the sole text for a course ? 

-guru


Dr. Guru Parulkar
Asst Professor             guru@flora.wustl.edu
Dept of Computer Science   parulkar@udel.edu 
Washington University      wucs1!guru@uunet.uu.net
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