By Olaf Kirch, Terry Dawson
June 2000
Pages: 506
ISBN 10: 1-56592-400-2 |
ISBN 13: 9781565924000
(Average of 6 Customer Reviews)
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Fully updated, this impressive, comprehensive introduction to networking on Linux now covers firewalls, including the use of ipchains and iptables (netfilter), masquerading, and accounting. Other new topics include Novell (NCP/IPX) support and INN (news administration). Original material on serial connections, UUCP, routing and DNS, mail and News, SLIP and PPP, NFS, and NIS has been thoroughly updated.
Full Description
- Introduction to TCP/IP
- Configuring network and serial hardware
- Domain Name Service
- Serial line communications using SLIP and PPP
- NIS and NFS
- Taylor UUCP
- Administering electronic mail, including sendmail and Exim
- Administering Netnews, including INN and several news readers
- Firewalling using ipfwadm, ipchains, and iptables (netfilter)
- Masquerading and accounting
- IPX configuration for a Novell Netware network
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Second Edition: June 2000
ISBN: 1-56592-400-2
Pages: 506
Average Customer Reviews: (Based on 6 Reviews)
Featured customer reviews
A great book!, October 11 2007
LINUX Network Administrator's Guide is one of the most useful books I've read so far. This book is, as many other titles from O'Reilly, a must-have for every administrator that wants to learn about Gnu/Linux Networking.
The book begins explaining issues of TCP/IP like IP Addresses, classless Inter-Domain Routing and networks and subnetworks. This introduction shows the basics for the user that does not know much about Networking. Then the book explains Networking issues under Gnu/Linux, its tools and the basic configuration.
The following chapter begins under the title "Configuring TCP/IP Networking", this chapter reveals the /proc pseudo file system secrets and comments how to setup a DHCP server. The explanations are complete and understandable for the new user. However, as the book covers the basics ( like networking introduction and basic setup ) and also harder topics like wireless network and servers it's useful either for the novice or the experienced reader.
The book includes chapters about the most important services and applications available to setup Gnu/Linux Networks. Also it includes brief and useful tips and other brilliant chapters like the one of Wireless Networking.
This book is one of the greatest works of the editorial. This book is also available for download. This edition written by Bautts, Dawson and Purdy, is the printed version of a free book.
An excellent work.
Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition Review, August 06 2002
Linux Network Aministrantor's Guide , 2nd Edition 01 june 2002
Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition Review, April 25 2002
a very good book, and ofcourse a brave stance by Tim to publish an online available book.surely a commendable service for linux community!
Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition Review, June 20 2001
Coming from Internetworking background, this book provides the best information for a Network professional regarding how network operating systems interact on a network.
Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition Review, July 27 2000
This book is very useful for my daily administration of my Linux Server, and it provides some tricks and tips is very useful and help me to save my time! Thank You! for O'Relly book!
Linux Network Administrator's Guide, 2nd Edition Review, July 17 2000
I am pleased that this book has finally appeared (the first edition was feeling older with every passing day), and that it covers important topics that were missed by the first edition for whatever reason. (Most notable from my perspective was the lack of firewall information, which has been amply updated. I realize the tools we now take for granted were in development at the time of the first edition.)
Media reviews
"In the O'Reilly tradition, an excellent example of technical communication at its best."
--Major Keary, "PC Update," May 2003
"A best-seller, and rightly so, covering everything you need to know from the ground up."
--Frank Charlton, PC Plus, Jan 2002
"A good introduction to Linux administration."
--Steven Gibson, DDJ.com
"This marvelous book is available online at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linag/. Being old fashioned, I prefer the printed version. So far, the book has handled all my needs with Linux network administration. Highly recommended."
--Al Stevens, Dr Dobbs Journal, August 2001
"For those who have to administer a Linux server there's a wide range of titles. One you must have is from the Linux Documentation Project. You can download it free but the printed version of The Linux Network Administrator's Guide is too useful not to have handy."
--Steve Patient, All About Linux, amazon.co.uk
"Another title in O'Reilly's outstanding Linux series, Linux Network Administrators Guide, is now in its second edition. The coverage is comprehensive, detailed, and very well presented. Considering that the original material was developed for online documentation, it has come up remarkably well: a masterpiece"
--Major Kearny, Book News, April 2001
"An excellent book that works well as a reference guide. As many in the IS industry know, O'Reilly has played a major role in the education of today's information systems specialist. With their foray into open books, O'Reilly again shows that they are ready to work hand-in-hand with the community."
--Dustin Puryear, 32bitsonline, November 2000
"All in all, I would heartily recommend this book to anyone looking to learn about network administration. If you've ever read an O'Reilly book before, you'll know what to expect: this is another quality title in the O'Reilly stable. For those who've never read an O'Reilly title, this is a great place to start!"
--Richard Ibbotson, Sheffield Linux Users Group February 2001
"invaluable."
--Rob Fenwick, PC Answers, December 2000
"Best Book"
--Linux Journal Editors Choice Awards, 2000
"So is this book worthwhile? If you are involved in administering a Linux network, unquestionably yes."
--Christopher Thompson, slashdot.org, August 2000
"a well-nigh indispensable companion to Hunt {TCP/IP Network Administration by Craig Hunt}. In fact, the relationship is now reversed; if there is *one* must-get book, it's now NAG rather than Hunt. But I still recommend both."
--Paul Dunne, www.kuro5hin.org, Sept 2000
