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My name is Andy Levin, and I’ve been coding SNMP network management apps for the last 10 yrs. Dave Zeltserman is a friend of mine with whom I have worked on several large scale projects, and I helped review this book.
The strength of this book lies in the fact that, clearly, it has been written by an engineer rather than by an academic. The stress is on the pragmatic use of the SNMP protocol and some of its more important MIBs to solve real network managment problems. First, the relevent concepts are presented in plain and easy to understand language. Next, clear diagrams and pseudocode algorithms are presented. This goes a long way in helping to explain, in particular, the very difficult to understand V3 concepts. To gain a full perspective of this accomplishment, I invite you to try and glean this information by reading the RFC’s yourself.
The weakness of this book in my opinion is, ironically, its title. Even if you have no intention of ever implementing V3, whether you are a newbie or experienced, this book contains a treasure trove of useful network management “how to” information. By emphasizing V3, the title de-emphasizes a great deal of this book’s value, and that is unfortunate.
Bottom line, I have found this book very worthwhile reading, and I’m willing to bet that anyone really interesting in doing useful network managment using SNMP will find it very worthwhile as well.
Practical Guide to Snmpv3
I truly do not understand all the love this book is getting. The writing was stale and cliche. Nothing was actually believable as plausible. I did not find anything about this book exceptional or worthy of praise. The parts I hated most were the explicit and extremely overly detailed sex/sexual scenes. They added nothing to the story and really turned me off to the book and author. If the movie contains all the details of the book, it would have to be marketed as a porno. Even if those parts had been left out, or at least left something to the imagination, I still would not have thought it a particularly excellent book.
A Practical Treatise on
Wanna have even more FUN with loved ones? Wanna spend more time with someone, but can’t get past awkward conversations? Wanna stream movies and TV shows to your TV, as you like? Turn on the wii, baby (& get Netflix)! From canoeing with family members, to swordfighting with friends, to cow-racing with acquaintances, to watching old episodes of Fraggle Rock, wii will have you laughing, rowing, slashing, lassoing (a la Indy!), and yes, now watching for as long as you can stand it! We’ve had our wii about six months, and it just got better! We just started our Netflix subscription a few weeks ago, and we love that too! With a Netflix subscription that includes the ability to stream, if you’ve got an internet connection to your house, you can watch any one of TONS of movies and TV shows (stuff you can’t get on OnDemand!) My beau was especially excited about the 21 Jump Street Episodes 
Be prepared to spend more than just the purchase price for the wii – there are lots of fun extras that you kinda need, extra wii-motes and nun-chucks, in addition to the games (tip: always read the reviews on the games, I’ve bought a doozey or two, & if i had read the reviews here on amazon, I would have saved my $$ for a better game). But, if you have kids or you are even just a couple who goes out a lot, the wii (& now, netflix) may save you some money in the end, and you’ll spend more time together, doing fun stuff. And after all, isn’t that what life’s all about?
Thanks to wii and netflix, we eat at home more (saves money, gas, & calories); watch fewer commercials (they’re bad for the psyche AND the wallet!); are more active with our entertainment; spend more time with family & friends; spend less time aimlessly channel-surfing; enjoy more varieties of entertainment, like documentaries, old TV shows, and musician stuff; are more conservative with spending $7-15 per person to see a movie in the theatres (that we hopefully will enjoy!); and actually look forward to spending time at ho
A Practical Treatise on
Instructions loop around but don’t resolve the problem with connecting to the internet. Can waste way too much time on this. Don’t even want to try doing this all again with tech support. Much more fruitful to bag it and do more constructive things.
Practical Sailor