Connecting to the Internet: A Practical Guide about LAN-Internet Connectivity

By Andrew F. Ward

System and network administrators faced with the challenge of building and maintaining permanent LAN-to-Internet connections are often in need of additional information in order to complete this... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201379562
• ISBN13: 9780201379563
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.1" x 0.8" x 5.5"

Customer Reviews

You Won't put this book very far away

This is an excellent book with allot of detail. Every page is full of valuable information and a great resource. It is worth reading this book at least twice. It also covers some tcp/ip issues as well as routers issues that were a little fuzzy in the past.

A great resource for the budding networking consultant...

I was pleasantly surprised by the content and format of this book, having quickly bought it after a few minutes perusal. This is an excellent primer covering most relevant design and security issues relevant to getting a network interconnected/Internetted. The most salient point about this book is that it is one of the true consultant-friendly offerings I have seen and provides terrific overview of necessary issues for bona-fide consulting gigs, particularly with issues of design, security, laying an infrastructure from scratch, and the sort of qualitative design questions you will expected to answer from companies seeking someone who really knows their stuff. By no means is it thoroughly comprehensive, and that's not the point. Use this for a launching point, then utilize in tandem with other offerings such as Chris Brenton's books ("Mastering Network Security," "Multiprotocol Network Design"). Also, this book is NOT for the day-to-day sys admin/contractor/tech in an enterprise environment with extensive infrastructure already in place performing routine maintenance. On a final note, if you're one of the few and brave setting up shop and venturing out as an independent (despite the overwhelming aggregation of the networking services market towards the big corporate/ultra-airhead cattle-call contract/temporary agencies the past several years), you'll want this in your briefcase for additional armor...

One coherent book

The content combines issues of sys-admin and basic technology issues of network design, security, VPN, and management and presents them in one coherent book.

Cookbook style

Good cookbook approach to getting your Lan/Wan connection running. - Howard Harkness

Great work!

Ward's book makes a great presentation of the subject...in particular, it's not target-specific. He avoids the use of specific commands or steps for specific kinds of systems. And the checklists are a great idea!Brendan Kehoe; Author, ``Zen and the Art of the Internet'' and ``Children and the Internet''