Cisco Router OSPF: Design & Implementation Guide is a good blueprint for understanding and using the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol, as well as other routing protocols stand out. And like any good teacher would, he even supplies the answers in the appendix of this book (as he begged his readers-students to practice practice, practice). Parkhurst Although the ultimate goal is to provide knowledge about how to operate and configure the OSPF protocol on a Cisco router, it takes time in getting there, give a few chapters worth of useful, educational diversion. In particular, it includes the Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) and OSPF. A must-have for anyone interested in the CCIE program and Information Protocol (IP) routing, Cisco Router OSPF: Design and Implementation Guide boils effective mass of data available to the bare essence, an absolute pleasure in today's information overload.