Networking for System Administrators

<p>One of the best technical writers in the networking and security environments. </p><p>- Midwest Book Review</p><p></p><p><strong>Stop waiting for the network team!</strong></p><p></p><p>If basic TCP/IP was hard network administrators couldn't do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network-once they know how to unlock it.</p><p></p><p>Most sysadmins don't need to understand window scaling or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own applications and get easy support from the network team.</p><p></p><p>This book teaches you:</p><ul><li>How modern networks really work</li><li>The essentials of TCP/IP</li><li>The core of IPv4 and IPv6</li><li>The right tools to diagnose network problems and how to use them</li><li>Troubleshooting everything from the physical wire to DNS</li><li>How to see the traffic you send and receive</li><li>Connectivity testing</li><li>How to communicate with your network team to quickly resolve problems</li></ul><p></p><p>A sysadmin doesn't need to know the innards of TCP/IP but knowing enough to diagnose your own network issues will transforms a good sysadmin into a great one.</p><p></p><p>The first edition of <em>Networking for System Administrators</em> unlocked networking for hundreds of thousands of sysadmins. This second edition promises the same and more!</p>