I was Forced to read Tanenbaum in university and I hated it, partially because I didn’t know if it was
relevent . Now after 10 years in the IT industry I
realized that I need to understand networking and came back to this book.
the introducation is hard to read and somehow put me off its dry -especially the illstrations- and feels
very dated(the recent versions just put Buzzworlds like twitter and Facebook in to make it look recant) But once you’re past that you see the the beauty of the Book
It is very well organized it goes through all the
layers in a good speed so its perfect to get an
understanding which protocol geoes into which layer.
You can skip certain parts e.g. I skipped layer 1
and can continue just fine after it the keyword are marked bold you can just cross read entire pages and spot the bold words to check if your now leaving out something important.
TI dr yes the book is dated but gives a great overview over Networking in general