Product Description

This complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network is aimed at network administrators, as well as users of home systems that access the Internet. The book starts with the fundamentals - what protocols do and how they work, how addresses and routing are used to move data through the network, how to set up your network connection - and then covers, in detail, everything you need to know to exchange information via the Internet. Included are discussions on advanced routing protocols (RI Pv2, OSPF, and BGP) and the gated software package that implements them, a tutorial on configuring important network services - including DNS, Apache, sendmail, Samba, PPP, and DHCP - as well as expanded chapters on troubleshooting and security. The book is also a command and syntax reference for important packages such as gated, pppd, named, dhcpd, and sendmail. With coverage that includes Linux, Solaris, BSD, and System V TCP/IP implementations, this third edition contains: overview of TCP/IP; delivering the data; network services; getting started; basic configuration; configuring the interface; configuring routing; configuring DNS; configuring network servers; configuring sendmail; configuring Apache; network security; troubleshooting; appendices include dip, ppd, and chat reference, a gated reference, a dhcpd reference, and a sendmail reference. This edition also includes ways of configuring Samba to provide file and print sharing on networks that integrate Unix and Windows, and a new chapter is dedicated to the important task of configuring the Apache web server. Coverage of network security now includes details on OpenSSH, stunnel, gpg, iptables, and the access control mechanism in xinetd. Plus, the book offers updated information about DNS, including details on BIND 8 and BIND 9, the role of classless IP addressing and network prefixes, and the changing role of registrars.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #191412 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 746 pages

Review
"A good book to get to grips with TCP/IP, providing good foundations." - Jon Kent, Linux Format, October 2002

From the Publisher
A complete guide to setting up and running a TCP/IP network for practicing system administrators. Beyond basic setup, this new second edition discusses the Internet routing protocols and provides a tutorial on how to configure important network services. It also includes Linux in addition to BSD and System V TCP/IP implementations.

About the Author
Craig Hunt has almost 30 years of computing experience--first as a programmer, then a systems programmer, network architect, manager of network operations, and finally head of network research. Craig is now an independent computer consultant. He is currently working on the Microsoft antitrust settlement, with a particular focus on the Microsoft Communications Protocol Program (MCPP). Craig is the author of nine computer books, including TCP/IP Network Administration, and is the editor of five others. Find out more about Craig's professional activities at his web site www.wrotethebook.com.

Customer Reviews

Answers all those "Hmmm" questions
I thought I had a good understanding of TCP/IP, but with the need to grasp Mail Services and SSH, I started to get lost.

This book helped me no end. I read it through cover to cover and it gave me a much better understanding of not only TCP/IP but some of the more popular services that run over it. It covers basic TCP/IP methodology (including the dreaded ISO seven layer model), through subnet masking and routing as well as basic DNS, Sendmail and Apache configuration.

I now feel I can go back and read the Bat (Sendmail) and Grasshoppers (DNS & BIND) books and get a lot more out of them.

This book looks like it will fit firmly in among the numerous other O'Reilly books on my desk. I'm thinking - do O'Reilly offer a discount if I buy all of there books ;-)

I would recommend this book to people who think they know enough to get by, and those just entering into the world of TCP/IP.

Not much to say
I like the O'Reilly series and how they present information.
This is one of the first O'Reilly books I bought while working in an ISP and Web Hosting company and it became a cherished reference though my copy is older and their are bound to be revisions I can't recommend this enough for anyone who works with TCP/IP networks on any level.

A must for any network administrator
In the first chapters this book crams in a lot of background info which makes you go "Ahh! So thats why....". The following chapters are the most clearly explained guide to 'actually doing it'. Well done the author, and all involved with the project.