Review on the book TCP/IP Protocol Suite, 4th Edition Forouzan

Review of the book TCP/IP suit ForouzanSunday, November 15, 2009 8:46 PM
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Review
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4th Edition of TCP/IP Protocol Suite by Forouzan
Reviewer: Prof N.B. Venkateswarlu
Venkat_ritch@yahoo.com
AITAM, Tekkali



Since the release of first edition of TCP/IP suit, I became favourate to Prof Forouzan. Out of all his books, I love this TCP/IP protocol suit especially because of its presentation, extensive use of simple concept oriented figures, easy notation, numerical examples, summary in each chapter, and sample (objective) questions in each chapter at the end. To be open enough, I rate this as exceptional out of all the other books authored by Prof Forouzan.

I am delighted to see the fourth edition of the same. Though there is not great leap in the content, however the following are the major points are to be certainly emphasized
1. Three separate chapters on IPV6 is a great leap in this 4th edition over 3rd edition as the world is in the process of transforming to IPV6. To my knowledge no other book did give this much details on IPV6. IPV6 addressing the chapter 26 is very lucid such that any one can understand. Also, a separate chapter on IPV6 protocol with details of headers is very informative for protocol stack designers.
2. Also, two chapters are Security is another difference compared to 3rd edition. The issues discussed are elaborate enough for the reader to understand the state-of-art of Internet security. Numerical examples will enlighten the reader about the intricacies in the subject.
3. Auto configuration of the addresses is very interesting in IPV6 and is dealt nicely by the authors.

However, I feel the following would have made the title little more attractive.
1. Simple code snippets would have increased the interest of the reader; especially new protocol stack designers. In this respect I would like to recall a book “TCP/IP Application Layer Protocols for Embedded Systems, M. Tim Jones, Firewall Media, New Delhi, 2003”. The book explains the concepts with implementation. Of course, I do recall first versions of TCP/IP suite contains few coding examples for UDP client, connection oriented server, connection less server, etc.,. I wish such a snippets to be retained such that interns in the Computers can experiment and test their knowledge.
2. A separator chapter on protocol stack and its realization in embedded systems would make the title little more interesting.
3. I love to see some details of protocol simulators etc., with which we can allow students to experiment their knowledge.
4. Inclusion of coding assignments in each chapter would have made the title unique.
5. Chapter 27 seems to have an abrupt starting in its Introduction section. Few lines about the need for IPV6 will make the reader interesting.
6. The section on Challenges in migrating to IPV6 to chapter 26 itself instead of 27.
7. Page 773, 2125 would have been 2128.
8. Also, while explaining the addresses it would have been good if the author mentions MSB/LSB and big-endian/small-endian style. Probably, some where else they might have mentioned. However, a small hint will help the reader not to get confused.

It is my proud privilege to review the legend writers book on TCP/IP suit.