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LANs & WANs eBooks

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  • Peer-to-Peer

    Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies

    by Andy Oram ...
    The term "peer-to-peer" has come to be applied to networks that expect end users to contribute their own files, computing time, or other resources to some shared project. Even more interesting than the systems' technical underpinnings are their socially disruptive potential: in various ways they return content, choice, and control to ordinary users.While this book is mostly about the technical ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Designing Large Scale Lans

    Help for Network Designers

    by Kevin Dooley ...
    This unique book offers a vendor-neutral approach for designing large local area networks according to business or organizational needs, rather than from a product perspective. Author and independent network design consultant Kevin Dooley outlines "top-down network design" for building a technological infrastructure to fit your organization's requirements, a process far more effective and cost ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Essential System Administration

    Tools and Techniques for Linux and Unix Administration

    by Æleen Frisch ...
    Essential System Administration,3rd Edition is the definitive guide for Unix system administration, covering all the fundamental and essential tasks required to run such divergent Unix systems as AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Tru64 and more. Essential System Administration provides a clear, concise, practical guide to the real-world issues that anyone responsible for a Unix system faces ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • BGP

    Building Reliable Networks with the Border Gateway Protocol

    Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the routing protocol used to exchange routing information across the Internet. It makes it possible for ISPs to connect to each other and for end-users to connect to more than one ISP. BGP is the only protocol that is designed to deal with a network of the Internet's size, and the only protocol that can deal well with having multiple connections to unrelated ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Essential System Administration Pocket Reference

    Commands and File Formats

    by Æleen Frisch ...
    If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem arises. Your answer is the Essential System Administration Pocket Reference, the only system administration reference that fits in your pocket. Concise ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Network Security Assessment

    Know Your Network

    by Chris McNab ...
    There are hundreds--if not thousands--of techniques used to compromise both Windows and Unix-based systems. Malicious code and new exploit scripts are released on a daily basis, and each evolution becomes more and more sophisticated. Keeping up with the myriad of systems used by hackers in the wild is a formidable task, and scrambling to patch each potential vulnerability or address each new ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Windows Server Hacks

    100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools

    by Mitch Tulloch ...
    One of the secrets to the ever-increasing popularity of Windows Server can be found in the simplicity its administration. The easy-to-use GUI, consistent set of tools, and wizards that walk you through complex tasks allow you to install, configure and maintain Windows servers without any knowledge of programming or scripting languages or learning complicated command-line syntax. It's possible, in ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking

    by Mark Soper ...
    Finally, there is a guide to home networking that was written for true beginners! The Absolute Beginner's Guide to Home Networking goes far beyond traditional printer or Internet sharing and is geared to help you understand home network types and concepts, install, configure and interconnect various types of wired and wireless networks. This easy-to-understand guide will help you achieve the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • IPv6 Network Administration

    Teaching the Turtle to Dance

    What once seemed nearly impossible has turned into reality. The number of available Internet addresses is now nearly exhausted, due mostly to the explosion of commercial websites and entries from an expanding number of countries. This growing shortage has effectively put the Internet community--and some of its most brilliant engineers--on alert for the last decade.Their solution was to create IPv6 ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Windows Server Cookbook

    For Windows Server 2003 & Windows 2000

    by Robbie Allen ...
    This practical reference guide offers hundreds of useful tasks for managing Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003, Microsoft's latest and greatest server. Through concise, on-the-job solutions to common problems, Windows Server Cookbook for Windows Server 2003 & Windows 2000 is certain to save you hours of time searching for answers.Now, instead of dredging reams of Microsoft documentation or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Snort Cookbook

    Solutions and Examples for Snort Administrators

    If you are a network administrator, you're under a lot of pressure to ensure that mission-critical systems are completely safe from malicious code, buffer overflows, stealth port scans, SMB probes, OS fingerprinting attempts, CGI attacks, and other network intruders. Designing a reliable way to detect intruders before they get in is an essential--but often overwhelming--challenge. Snort, the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Network Security Tools

    Writing, Hacking, and Modifying Security Tools

    If you're an advanced security professional, then you know that the battle to protect online privacy continues to rage on. Security chat rooms, especially, are resounding with calls for vendors to take more responsibility to release products that are more secure. In fact, with all the information and code that is passed on a daily basis, it's a fight that may never end. Fortunately, there are a ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide

    The Definitive Guide

    As we all know by now, wireless networks offer many advantages over fixed (or wired) networks. Foremost on that list is mobility, since going wireless frees you from the tether of an Ethernet cable at a desk. But that's just the tip of the cable-free iceberg. Wireless networks are also more flexible, faster and easier for you to use, and more affordable to deploy and maintain.The de facto standard ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Cisco IOS in a Nutshell

    A Desktop Quick Reference for IOS on IP Networks

    by James Boney ...
    Cisco routers are everywhere that networks are. They come in all sizes, from inexpensive units for homes and small offices to equipment costing well over $100,000 and capable of routing at gigabit speeds. A fixture in today's networks, Cisco claims roughly 70% of the router market, producing high-end switches, hubs, and other network hardware. One unifying thread runs through the product line: ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Windows Server 2003 Network Administration

    Building and Maintaining Problem-Free Windows Networks

    This book is the Windows Server version of the classic TCP/IP Network Administration. Like the book that inspired it, Windows Server 2003 Network Administration provides an overview of the essential TCP/IP protocols, and explains how to properly manage and configure the services based on these protocols. Any skilled network administrator knows that understanding how things work is as important as ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Wireless Hacks

    Tips & Tools for Building, Extending, and Securing Your Network

    The popularity of wireless networking has grown exponentially over the past few years, despite a general downward trend in the telecommunications industry. More and more computers and users worldwide communicate via radio waves every day, cutting the tethers of the cabled network both at home and at work.Wireless technology changes not only the way we talk to our devices, but also what we ask them ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Monad (AKA PowerShell)

    Introducing the MSH Command Shell and Language

    by Andy Oakley ...
    Windows PowerShell, formerly know by its codename "Monad" and available now for Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, and Windows Vista, and soon for Exchange Server 2007 and MOM, is the future of Windows administration. From setting up automated build environments to managing 20,000 Exchange email clients in an organization, any tool that reduces the number of repetitive steps an administrator must ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Zero Configuration Networking: The Definitive Guide

    The Definitive Guide

    It used to be that two laptops, sitting side by side, couldn't communicate with each other; they may as well have been a thousand miles apart. But that was then, before the advent of Zero Configuration Networking technology. This amazing cross-platform open source technology automatically connects electronic devices on a network, allowing them to interoperate seamlessly-without any user ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • JUNOS Cookbook

    Time-Saving Techniques for JUNOS Software Configuration

    by Aviva Garrett ...
    The Juniper Networks routing platforms are becoming the go-to solution for core, edge, metro and remote office networks, and JUNOS software is behind it all. The operating system is so full of industrial-strength routing protocols and IP innovations that those treading into the world of JUNOS will need clarification, explanation, and a showcase example or two. Look no further. This JUNOS Cookbook ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • DNS and BIND

    Help for System Administrators

    DNS and BIND tells you everything you need to work with one of the Internet's fundamental building blocks: the distributed host information database that's responsible for translating names into addresses, routing mail to its proper destination, and even listing phone numbers with the new ENUM standard. This book brings you up-to-date with the latest changes in this crucial service.The fifth ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A+, Network+, Security+ Exams in a Nutshell

    A Desktop Quick Reference

    If you're preparing for the new CompTIA 2006 certification in A+, or the current Network+ and Security+ certifications, you'll find this book invaluable. It provides all the information you need to get ready for these exams, including the four new A+ exams -- the required Essentials exam and three elective exams that pertain to your area of specialization.As with other O'Reilly Nutshell books for ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Network Warrior

    Written by networking veteran with 20 years of experience, Network Warrior provides a thorough and practical introduction to the entire network infrastructure, from cabling to the routers. What you need to learn to pass a Cisco certification exam such as CCNA and what you need to know to survive in the real world are two very different things. The strategies that this book offers weren 't on the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Windows PowerShell Cookbook

    for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3

    by Lee Holmes ...
    This Cookbook by Windows PowerShell team developer Lee Holmes provides hundreds of tested scripts that you can use right away to get Microsoft's new tool working for you. More than 150 recipes, combined with a concise task-based introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language and environment, make it the perfect look-up guide when you encounter a thorny problem, or need a quick solution. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Linux Networking Cookbook

    From Asterisk to Zebra with Easy-to-Use Recipes

    This soup-to-nuts collection of recipes covers everything you need to know to perform your job as a Linux network administrator, whether you're new to the job or have years of experience. With Linux Networking Cookbook, you'll dive straight into the gnarly hands-on work of building and maintaining a computer network.Running a network doesn't mean you have all the answers. Networking is a complex ... Read more

    $25.99 USD