Best books to learn TCP IP protocols in depth as a Linux Systems Administrator?

[networkloser]

fourozan networks
stallings networks
douglas comer internetworking with tcp ip volume 1
stevens tcp ip
fourouzan tcp ip

stallings security
fourozan security
atul kahate security

These are all the textbooks I'm planning to buy. Would you recommend anything else? I want to get closer to RFCs but don't want to start with RFCs.

[icecream-guy]

I would recommend to start with "Cisco Press - CCIE Professional Development Routing TCPIP, Volume I."
it's one of the "classics" every network engineer should read.

then on to Cisco Press - CCIE Professional Development Routing TCPIP, Volume II.

[networkloser]

Hmm I'm a system administrator rather than a network engineer. I just need to know tcpip enough to use the linux commands to troubleshoot network issues. that's why

[deanwebb]

Ping, traceroute, and tcpdump will do ya for nearly every sysadmin issue.

But knowing something of what is happening with the routers and switches is handy. For that purpose, I recommend the CCNA Routing and Switching guides by Wendell Odom. They include a great discussion of TCP/IP along with the networking device details.

But ***THE*** ultimate TCP/IP guide is, well, The TCP/IP Guide. http://tcpipguide.com/

[icecream-guy]

But ***THE*** ultimate TCP/IP guide is, well, The TCP/IP Guide. http://tcpipguide.com/

LOL. for a web site on TCP/IP that doesn't even support HTTPS

[deanwebb]

^ Yeah, that is a helluva irony!