Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: Tough first book..

I was forced to buy this book for a class. As a newbie to TCP/IP networks it seemed a little sparse and did not really teach me to much about TCP/IP networking. I was very disapointed in the fact that after this class, I was still no farther along in my understanding of subneting. Thankfully the price of hardware bottomed out, and I was able to get a copy of Win NT to practice with, or I might not know how to subnet to this day. It would be an "OK" book for someone just starting out, if they could get it at a reasonable price. This book would not get you through the testing that is going on these days.