Linux Network Administrator's Guide: Infrastructure, Services, and Security

by Tony Bautts, Terry Dawson, Gregor Purdy, Andy Oram (Editor)

Overview

The Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Third Edition dispenses all the practical advice you need to join a network. Along with some hardware considerations, this highly acclaimed guide takes an in-depth look at all of the essential networking software that comes with the operating system—including basic infrastructure (TCP/IP, wireless networking, firewalling) and the most popular services on Linux systems. But as the follow-up to a classic, the third edition of the Linux Network Administrator's Guide does more than just spruce up the basics. It also provides the very latest information on the following cutting-edge services:

• Wireless hubs
• OpenLDAP
• FreeS/WAN
• IMAP
• Spam filtering
• OpenSSH
• BIND
• IPv6

Featuring a litany of insider tips and techniques, the Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Third Edition is an invaluable companion for any network administrator interested in integrating Linux into their Windows environment Authored by Terry Dawson, Tony Bautts, and Gregor N. Purdy, the Linux Network Administrator's Guide, Third Edition emerged from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP). The LDP's goal is to centralize all of the issues of Linux documentation, ranging from online documentation topics such as installing, using, and running Linux.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780596005481
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/10/2005
Edition description:	Third Edition
Pages:	362
Sales rank:	1,166,332
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.19(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Tony Bautts is an independent security consultant who has worked with Fortune 500 companies in the US and Japan. He has spoken at security-related events for The Information Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA) and has spoken and chaired events for the MIS Training Institute. Tony is the co-author of Hack Proofing Your Wireless Network, Nokia Network Solutions Handbook, and the Security Certification Handbook and has, additionally, served as technical reviewer for Implementing IPv6 on Cisco IOS by Syngress Publishing.

Terry Dawson is an amateur radio operator and long time Linux enthusiast. He is the author of a number of network related HOWTO documents for the Linux Documentation Project, co-author the 2nd edition of O'Reilly's Linux Network Administrators Guide and is an active participant in a number of other Linux projects. Terry has 15 years professional experience in telecommunications and is currently engaged in network management research in the Telstra Research Laboratories.

Gregor N. Purdy is engineering manager in the large account services group at Amazon.com. Before joining Amazon.com in 2003, Gregor worked for ten years as a consultant in high-end data warehousing, system integration, and prior art research in software and Internet patents. He has also contributed to a number of open source projects, including Perl core and extension modules, the Perl Shell, and the Parrot virtual machine for Perl 6.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter 1: Introduction to Networking
• Chapter 2: Issues of TCP/IP Networking
• Chapter 3: Configuring the Serial Hardware
• Chapter 4: Configuring TCP/IP Networking
• Chapter 5: Name Service and Configuration
• Chapter 6: The Point-to-Point Protocol
• Chapter 7: TCP/IP Firewall
• Chapter 8: IP Accounting
• Chapter 9: IP Masquerade and Network Address Translation
• Chapter 10: Important Network Features
• Chapter 11: Administration Issues with Electronic Mail
• Chapter 12: sendmail
• Chapter 13: Configuring IPv6 Networks
• Chapter 14: Configuring the Apache Web Server
• Chapter 15: IMAP
• Chapter 16: Samba
• Chapter 17: OpenLDAP
• Chapter 18: Wireless Networking
• Appendix A: Example Network: The Virtual Brewery
• Colophon

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
If you distilled the essence of Linux network administration into one readable, usable, not-too-gigantic book, this would be the result: Linux Network Administration Guide, Third Edition.

This book's roots trace back to some of the earliest, most widely-used Linux networking documentation. But it's been massively revised in this edition, with new or thoroughly updated coverage of wireless networking, OpenLDAP, security (from OpenSSH to Spam filtering), IPv6, and plenty more.

It's surprising how much the authors can teach in just 300-plus pages: how to configure TCP/IP networking, name services, PPP, firewalls, IP accounting, NAT, sendmail, Apache, IMAP, Samba, BIND, and many other key technologies and services. No single book can cover the entire discipline of network administration. But when you've got a question, problem, or challenge, this example-rich guide is the place to turn. Bill Camarda, from the November 2006 Read Only