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TCP/IP Network Administration (3rd Edition; O'Reilly Networking)

Format: Paperback
Author: Craig Hunt
ReleaseDate: April, 2002
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
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TCP/IP Fundamentals
Non-Unix users will find this book equally useful as the Unix user, in that it presents the information in a format that is easy to follow as well as comprehensive. This book covers the in's and out's of TCP/IP with a Unix focus.

This book doesn't cater to the casual reader, instead it gives the facts required for administration of a TCP/IP based network. If you want to understand this topic, this is the book to use.

Cannot Live Without
Core concepts gleamed from this book has catapulted me greatly into my career, and allowed me to solve complex networking problems and avert major disasters. Though this book is oriented to UNIX, I find it tremendously useful as a Windows administrator.

I was introduced to this book for a UNIX Network Administration course, and from this I was able to really flesh out core TCP/IP concepts as well as play with services like DHCP and DNS, which are essential pieces for a Windows Active Directory environment. Using this book I was able to dabble with other services like NFS and SAMBA from a variety of systems ranging from Mac OS X to Solaris x86 to Linux to Windows XP. . .

I don't have any complaints, but rather some requests for future editions. I wish there was some coverage of IPSec and Kerberos in Chapter 12 "Network Security". I think Chapter 9 "Local Netowrk Services" could be expanded, as some topics are sparsely covered and there is no mention of printing technologies like IPP or CUPS. I do wish there was more coverage of the raw SMTP protocol and related technologies of POP, IMAP, and LDAP and maybe even mail servers like Exim and Postfix. However, don't touch that sendmail chapter (Chapter 10), as this coverage is so very excellent; other books go off on the deep end are far way too complex to get started.

this book is terrible
It's just all over the place. I can't understand all the glowing reviews this book is recieving, it is a VERY cursory and shallow treatment of far to much material. Please stay away from the "crab book", it sucks.

If you want a good tcp/ip book, O'Reilly's "Internet Core Protocols" is a great one. This book is not very good at all.