Description
This work provides the nitty-gritty details of TCP, IP and UDP. It shows that many network problems with protocols can be debugged by working at the lowest levels (looking at all the bits and travelling back and forth on the wire). The guide explains what those bits are and how to interpret them. A CD-ROM is included with the book; it contains Shomiti's "Surveyor Lite", a packet analyzer that runs on Win32 systems, plus the original RFCs, for reference. Together, this package includes all that system and network administrators should need to troubleshoot their networks.
About the Author
Eric A. Hall has been involved with computers and networking for over twenty years, both personally and professionally. He got his start in computers as a child by writing games in Basic on an IBM S/360 at his father?s office, and got his first real taste of distributed networking by running a FidoNet BBS node out of his home town in Nashville, TN. More recently, Eric has served as the Labs Director for Network Computing magazine (designing and managing two of their test centers), has worked for two Internet startups, and has designed and managed Fortune 500 networks. Eric continues to serve as an independent consultant for a variety of network-related companies, and continues to write for the trade press on occasion. Eric also tries to travel frequently, and has lived for extended periods on three of the seven continents.
Reviews
'This book moves beyond the older O'Reilly book TCP/IP Network Administration, and covers the protocols in much more depth. It will be a useful book to refer to, but I suspect will be one which lives mostly upon the bookshelf, only coming out occasionally during a troubleshooting session.' - Joel Smith, news@UK, June 2000 '...the author does make the point that this book is not intended for absolute TCP/IP newcomers. If you don't know what a subnet mask is, or how it relates to the maximum number on a particular network, then you should probably read something else first. But if you understand a little about TCP/IP and you want to deepen your understanding and appreciation of how the PCs in a network communicate with one another, then you will find this book a fascinating read.' - Dave Jewell, Developers Review, June 2000.
Book Information
ISBN 9781565925724
Author Eric a Hall
Page Count 472
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media
About the Author
Eric A. Hall has been involved with computers and networking for over twenty years, both personally and professionally. He got his start in computers as a child by writing games in Basic on an IBM S/360 at his father?s office, and got his first real taste of distributed networking by running a FidoNet BBS node out of his home town in Nashville, TN. More recently, Eric has served as the Labs Director for Network Computing magazine (designing and managing two of their test centers), has worked for two Internet startups, and has designed and managed Fortune 500 networks. Eric continues to serve as an independent consultant for a variety of network-related companies, and continues to write for the trade press on occasion. Eric also tries to travel frequently, and has lived for extended periods on three of the seven continents.
Reviews
'This book moves beyond the older O'Reilly book TCP/IP Network Administration, and covers the protocols in much more depth. It will be a useful book to refer to, but I suspect will be one which lives mostly upon the bookshelf, only coming out occasionally during a troubleshooting session.' - Joel Smith, news@UK, June 2000 '...the author does make the point that this book is not intended for absolute TCP/IP newcomers. If you don't know what a subnet mask is, or how it relates to the maximum number on a particular network, then you should probably read something else first. But if you understand a little about TCP/IP and you want to deepen your understanding and appreciation of how the PCs in a network communicate with one another, then you will find this book a fascinating read.' - Dave Jewell, Developers Review, June 2000.
Book Information
ISBN 9781565925724
Author Eric a Hall
Page Count 472
Imprint O'Reilly Media
Publisher O'Reilly Media
