"'Linux Network Administrator's Guide' is an LDP work, it's a free documentation project," says Terry Dawson, the book's co-author. "The end result is an example of the synergy that can result when a company like O'Reilly is brave enough to support a project in spite of the knowledge that some of their work and effort may assist competitors."
Now fully updated in its second edition, this impressive, comprehensive introduction to networking on Linux 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.
"Networking is critically important to Linux. Linux was born of the Internet and now plays a part in driving the growth of the Internet. The synergy between the two is very exciting. Linux administrators can expect to see greater sophistication in the tools available to them for network administration. They can also expect to see increased depth and breadth of the scope of tools. What is available now is just the beginning," says Dawson.
Olaf Kirch, co-author, agrees. "I believe Linux is here to stay. During the next year or two, we'll see a consolidation of the Linux market, with 'serious' companies stepping up their involvement in the Linux arena: hardware vendors creating their own Linux distributions, etc. Network admins will have to be familiar with Linux."
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