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CIT (Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting) Cisco Press book eratta
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| strikeattack 2002-02-17, 3:56 pm |
| Very seldom do I start a new thread, but in this case I feel compelled to do so.
Normally, I am very satisfied with the content of a Cisco Press book, but certain excerpts from the CIT book, ISBN 1-57870-092-2, may question that belief.
While reading over chapter 10, I noticed several inconsistencies and eratta...
1. The chapter is not differentiating between frames and packets. Frames are switched, packets are routed (generally speaking). Depending on what layer you are processing at, it changes the name of the data you are moving. For example, page 409, 1st line reads... "The 802.10 ISL protocol is a packet-switching protocol that contains a standard Ethernet frame...". Ugh. If you are going to be wrong, be wrong consistently. The chapter switches back and forth between frames and packets as if they were the same thing.
2. Page 414, line 6: VLAN Trunking Protocol is listed as VPT. On the same page, the third line from the bottom of the page, the same error occurs again. AND ON THE NEXT PAGE, the error occurs again on the second line down. Ugh.
3. Page 419, line 1-5 excerpt:
"Remote (out-of-band) management through SNMP sets or Telnet (client) connection occurs on any switched or ATM interface.
Local (in-band) management occurs on the Console port (female DCE EIA/TIA-232) for console terminal or modem connection."
Last time I checked, console was out-of-band and Telnet was in-band.
4. Page 534: "Port Fast" is listed as "Fast-Start". Does anyone else use the terminology "Fast-Start" instead of "PortFast"?
Just a little tidbit of information. I called one of Global Knowledge's competitors (can't remember which one) about a month ago and talked to the instructor of the class. His name was Dan Farkas. He is a CCIE and he is teaching one of the classes I have been considering taking. About an hour after chatting with him on the phone, I looked at the CIT book cover and realized that he is one of the authors of the book I was reading. I didn't even know, and he didn't mention it. I could have ran these questions by him over the phone had I known!
Give me your comments. I would love to hear them. | |
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| darthfeces 2002-02-18, 6:55 pm |
| i only used exam cram for this test.
i can't complain as i passed ....
though i've seen errata in almost all books i've read.
exam cram, cisco etc.
i when i'm sure i look at it and go what the h***
is that cr**
and when i'm learing somthing and i see conflicting statments i look elsewhere.
so i guess multiple sources of info is best. | |
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| I guess it proves you know your stuff if your spotting the mistakes.
It's when you don't spot them and take it as gospel that you have to worry! | |
| strikeattack 2002-02-24, 7:55 pm |
| I am in Schaumburg, IL right now for a Cisco class I am attending starting tomorrow. When I get back home, I will look up the author's e-mail address and mail the thread to him. Anyone else that read this book notice any errata that they would like to contribute? I would really like to hear from anyone else that has read the book. | |
| peterd 2002-02-25, 7:31 am |
| Hello,
there's a section where it goes through various 'show' outputs piece by piece and explains what each line means...
I can't remember the exact details now but at one point they give a new print-out and paste a copy of the details from the previous print-out a couple of pages earlier.
It annoyed me at the time because generally that was good stuff that would be usefull for future reference while actually doing the job!
Regards
Peter |
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