May 07, 2012 |
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CompTIA® Network+ N10-005 Authorized Exam Cram, Fourth Edition is the perfect study guide to help you pass CompTIA’s new Network+ N10-005 exam. It provides coverage and practice questions for every exam topic, including substantial new coverage of security, wireless, and voice networking. The book contains an extensive set of preparation tools, such as quizzes, Exam Alerts, and a practice exam, while the CD’s state-of-the-art test engine provides real-time practice and feedback.
Covers the critical information you’ll need to know to score higher on your Network+ (N10-005) exam!
- Understand modern network topologies, protocols, and models
- Work effectively with DNS and DHCP
- Monitor and analyze network traffic
- Understand IP addressing, routing, and switching
- Perform basic router/switch installation and configuration
- Manage networks and utilize basic optimization techniques
- Plan and implement a small office/home office network
- Master essential LAN, WAN, and wireless technologies
- Install, configure, secure, and troubleshoot wireless networks
- Safeguard networks with VPNs, authentication, firewalls, and security appliances Download Now »
May 05, 2012 |
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“For an engineer determined to refine and secure Internet operation or to explore alternative solutions to persistent problems, the insights provided by this book will be invaluable.”
—Vint Cerf, Internet pioneer
TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, Second Edition, is a detailed and visual guide to today’s TCP/IP protocol suite. Fully updated for the newest innovations, it demonstrates each protocol in action through realistic examples from modern Linux, Windows, and Mac OS environments. There’s no better way to discover why TCP/IP works as it does, how it reacts to common conditions, and how to apply it in your own applications and networks.
Building on the late W. Richard Stevens’ classic first edition, author Kevin R. Fall adds his cutting-edge experience as a leader in TCP/IP protocol research, updating the book to fully reflect the latest protocols and best practices. He first introduces TCP/IP’s core goals and architectural concepts, showing how they can robustly connect diverse networks and support multiple services running concurrently. Next, he carefully explains Internet addressing in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Then, he walks through TCP/IP’s structure and function from the bottom up: from link layer protocols–such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi–through network, transport, and application layers.
Fall thoroughly introduces ARP, DHCP, NAT, firewalls, ICMPv4/ICMPv6, broadcasting, multicasting, UDP, DNS, and much more. He offers extensive coverage of reliable transport and TCP Download Now »
Nov 15, 2011 |
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The DNS & BIND Cookbook presents solutions to the many problems faced by network administrators responsible for a name server. Following O’Reilly’s popular problem-and-solution cookbook format, this title is an indispensable companion to DNS & BIND, 4th Edition, the definitive guide to the critical task of name server administration. The cookbook contains dozens of code recipes showing solutions to everyday problems, ranging from simple questions, like, “How do I get BIND?” to more advanced topics like providing name service for IPv6 addresses. It’s full of BIND configuration files that you can adapt to your sites requirements.
With the wide range of recipes in this book, you’ll be able to
- Check whether a name is registered
- Register your domain name and name servers
- Create zone files for your domains
- Protect your name server from abuse
- Set up back-up mail servers and virtual email addresses
- Delegate subdomains and check delegation
- Use incremental transfer
- Secure zone transfers
- Restrict which queries a server will answer
- Upgrade to BIND 9 from earlier version
- Perform logging and troubleshooting Download Now »
Oct 11, 2011 |
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It’s official: with IPv4 network addresses close to depletion, moving to IPv6 is now business critical. This concise book helps you plan for IPv6 integration by providing a high-level overview of the technical—and nontechnical—steps involved. Many of the challenges for your enterprise are on the organizational level, and solutions differ from company to company.
IPv6 Essentials author Silvia Hagen, a protocol analysis and directory service expert who’s worked with IPv6 international groups and forums for 10 years, supplies answers to the issues most frequently discussed by the clients she consults. With this guide, IPv6 project leaders and planning team members learn how to develop a cohesive integration strategy for building the next-generation network.
- Make a business case by focusing on the opportunities IPv6 offers
- Create a high level design and conduct a network assessment
- Develop a plan for evaluating vendors and products, and building labs and testing
- Understand routing protocol choices, security designs, and DNS issues
- Discover how to create an IPv6 address plan and manage IPv6 addresses
- Learn the available integration and transition technologies, and the scenarios they cover
About the Author
In the networking industry since 1990, Silvia Hagen became a CNE (Certified Novell Engineer) and CNI (Certified Novell Instructor) in 1992. As a successful instructor, she has trained hundreds of system engineers. Today, Silvia is CEO of Sunny Connection AG in Switzerland and works as a senior consultant and analyst for many mid- and large-sized companies. Download Now »
Sep 28, 2011 |
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“I have found this book to be a very useful classroom text, as well as a great Linux resource. It teaches Linux using a ground-up approach that gives students the chance to progress with their skills and grow into the Linux world. I have often pointed to this book when asked to recommend a solid Linux reference.”
–Eric Hartwell, Chair, School of Information Technology, ITT Technical Institute
The #1 Fedora and RHEL resource—a tutorial AND on-the-job reference
Master Linux administration and security using GUI-based tools, the command line, and Perl scripts
Set up key Internet servers, step by step, including Samba, Apache, sendmail, DNS, LDAP, FTP, and more
Master All the Techniques You Need to Succeed with Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
In this book, one of the world’s leading Linux experts brings together all the knowledge you need to master Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux and succeed with it in the real world. Best-selling author Mark Sobell explains Linux clearly and effectively, focusing on skills you’ll actually use as a user, programmer, or administrator. Now an even more versatile learning resource, this edition adds skill objectives at the beginning of each chapter. Download Now »
Jul 25, 2011 |
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The core concepts and technologies of Windows networkingNetworking can be a complex topic, especially for those new to the field of IT. This focused, full-color book takes a unique approach to teaching Windows networking to beginners by stripping down a network to its bare basics, thereby making each topic clear and easy to understand. Focusing on the new Microsoft Technology Associate (MTA) program, this book pares down to just the essentials, showing beginners how to gain a solid foundation for understanding networking concepts upon which more advanced topics and technologies can be built.
This straightforward guide begins each chapter by laying out a list of topics to be discussed, followed by a concise discussion of the core networking skills you need to have to gain a strong handle on the subject matter. Chapters conclude with review questions and suggested labs so you can measure your level of understanding of the chapter’s content.
- Serves as an ideal resource for gaining a solid understanding of fundamental networking concepts and skills
- Offers a straightforward and direct approach to networking basics and covers network management tools, TCP/IP, the name resolution process, and network protocols and topologies
- Reviews all the topics you need to know for taking the MTA 98-366 exam
- Provides an overview of networking components, discusses connecting computers to a network, and looks at connecting networks with routers Download Now »
