This is an oldie but goodie: “ TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition; O'Reilly Networking)” by Craig Hunt. However, I think nothing teaches networking better than making your own network devices from open source components, for example, creating routers/firewalls/access points from barebones Linux/Unix machines.
I came here looking for exactly this comment, otherwise to make it myself. Book _and_ setting it all up yourself part!
To be fair, there is probably more up to date literature nowadays especially if you want to try and do it in 'condensed' format but this is how I first grasped this whole networking thing. I'm getting old, that was probably more than 20 years ago by now.
I always wonder why many if not most of the devs I work with don't seem to actually understand even simple IPv4 and how their computer connects to the Internet. IP addresses, ports, firewalls, NAT, DNS, email, routing.
I definitely don't know as much about this any longer as I used to, when I ran all this stuff at home/did networking admin at my company on the side but just knowing that something like STP and BGP exist and still underpin this all helps if you ask me, even if you totally forgot how BGP actually works in detail.
