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Title: Good subject, but badly written.
Review: The subject matter is good. But the writing is bad. Perhaps, the book was written very hastily. Almost every page has a mistake in it, grammatical or otherwise. The author has used too many cut and pastes when writing this book, resulting in: (1) lots of uselessly duplicated text and diagrams, and (2) lots of editing mistakes. The author has some favorite words that he uses abundantly, e.g., "instrument" as a verb, "network appliance", etc. He keeps on referring to a MIB as "an MIB" and many times refers to an unsigned long as "a unsigned long". The book is poor in explanation. Not intended for people who do not already understand SNMP.
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