This soup-to-nuts collection of recipes covers everything you need to
know to perform your job as a Linux network administrator, whether
you’re new to the job or have years of experience. With Linux Networking
Cookbook, you’ll dive straight into the gnarly hands-on work of building
and maintaining a computer network. Running a network doesn’t mean you
have all the answers. Networking is a complex subject with reams of
reference material that’s difficult to keep straight, much less
remember. If you want a book that lays out the steps for specific tasks,
that clearly explains the commands and configurations, and does not tax
your patience with endless ramblings and meanderings into theory and
obscure RFCs, this is the book for you. You will find recipes for:
Building a gateway, firewall, and wireless access point on a Linux
network Building a VoIP server with Asterisk Secure remote
administration with SSH Building secure VPNs with OpenVPN, and a Linux
PPTP VPN server Single sign-on with Samba for mixed Linux/Windows LANs
Centralized network directory with OpenLDAP Network monitoring with
Nagios or MRTG Getting acquainted with IPv6 Setting up hands-free
networks installations of new systems Linux system administration via
serial console And a lot more. Each recipe includes a clear, hands-on
solution with tested code, plus a discussion on why it works. When you
need to solve a network problem without delay, and don’t have the time
or patience to comb through reference books or the Web for answers,
Linux Networking Cookbook gives you exactly what you need.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596102488/

How secure is your network? The best way to find out is to attack it.
Network Security Assessment provides you with the tricks and tools
professional security consultants use to identify and assess risks in
Internet-based networks-the same penetration testing model they use to
secure government, military, and commercial networks. With this book,
you can adopt, refine, and reuse this testing model to design and deploy
networks that are hardened and immune from attack. Network Security
Assessment demonstrates how a determined attacker scours Internet-based
networks in search of vulnerable components, from the network to the
application level. This new edition is up-to-date on the latest hacking
techniques, but rather than focus on individual issues, it looks at the
bigger picture by grouping and analyzing threats at a high-level. By
grouping threats in this way, you learn to create defensive strategies
against entire attack categories, providing protection now and into the
future. Network Security Assessment helps you assess:

- Web services, including Microsoft IIS, Apache, Tomcat, and
subsystems such as OpenSSL, Microsoft FrontPage, and Outlook Web Access
(OWA)
- Web application technologies, including ASP, JSP, PHP, middleware,
and backend databases such as MySQL, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server
- Microsoft Windows networking components, including RPC, NetBIOS, and
CIFS services
- SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email services
- IP services that provide secure inbound network access, including
IPsec, Microsoft PPTP, and SSL VPNs
- Unix RPC services on Linux, Solaris, IRIX, and other platforms
- Various types of application-level vulnerabilities that hacker tools
and scripts exploit
Assessment is the first step any organization should take to start
managing information risks correctly. With techniques to identify and
assess risks in line with CESG CHECK and NSA IAM government standards,
Network Security Assessment gives you a precise method to do just that.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0596510306/

Set up a high-speed home network

Network the computers and peripheral devices in your home or small
office with the fun and practical projects packed inside this hands-on
guide. Produced in conjunction with CNET.com, the place you go for the
latest in tech and consumer electronics, this book shows you how to
create a wired or wireless network so you can share files, printers, and
other resources. You’ll also learn to set up a server and secure and
expand your network. Inside, you’ll find 24 self-contained projects,
step-by-step instructions, a list of tools needed at the beginning of
each project, and hundreds of clear photos and screenshots. CNET
Do-It-Yourself Home Networking Projects takes you from beginning through
advanced tasks with ease!

- Control other PCs remotely
- Share network storage without a server
- Set up a webcam server
- Enable and share a cellular data connection
- Watch live TV from anywhere via a Sling Media bridge
- Integrate IM and VoIP applications into your network
- Run your own PC weather station
- Connect TiVo to your home network

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071486623/

Wireless LANs have become mainstream over the last few years. What
started out as cable replacement for static desktops in indoor networks
has been extended to fully mobile broadband applications involving
moving vehicles, high-speed trains, and even airplanes. This book is
designed to appeal to a broad audience with different levels of
technical background and can be used in a variety of ways: as a first
course on wireless LANs, as a graduate-level textbook, or simply as a
professional reference guide. It describes the key practical
considerations when deploying wireless LANs and equips the reader with a
solid understanding of the emerging technologies. The book comprises 38
high-quality contributions from industry and academia and covers a broad
range of important topics related to 802.11 networks, including quality
of service, security, high throughput systems, mesh networking,
802.11/cellular interworking, coexistence, cognitive radio resource
management, range and capacity evaluation, hardware and antenna design,
hotspots, new applications, ultra-wideband, and public wireless
broadband.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521895847/

Build and maintain a converged multimedia network environment

Seamlessly merge the Internet with cellular and wireless networks using
next-generation IMS technology and the comprehensive information
contained in this authoritative resource. The IP Multimedia Subsystem:
Session Control and Other Network Operations details the steps necessary
to deliver Web-based content, VoIP, streaming multimedia, conference
calls, and text messages across one integrated network. Learn how to
transition to IMS architecture, communicate with legacy networks,
control sessions using SIP, and connect subscribers to network services.
In-depth coverage of the latest IMS security, business intelligence,
customer care, and billing procedures is also included.

- Migrate legacy networks to IMS-based technology
- Use the Proxy, Interrogating, and Serving Call Session Control
Functions
- Interface with TDM-based, wireless, wireline, and VoIP networks
- Handle private and public user identities, domain names, and URLs
- Establish SIP sessions and connect subscribers to network services
- Deploy reliable network, access, and user-level security
- Prevent eavesdropping, DoS, message tampering, and amplification
exploits
- Track services rendered and charge subscribers using DIAMETER and
CDRs

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0071488537/

Cisco Express Forwarding demystifies the internal workings of Cisco
routers and switches, making it easier for you to optimize performance
and troubleshoot issues that arise in Cisco network environments. This
book addresses common misconceptions about CEF and packet switching
across various platforms, helping you to improve your troubleshooting
skills for CEF- and non-CEF-related problems.

The first part of the book provides an overview of packet-switching
architectures and CEF operation and advanced features. It also covers
the enhanced CEF structure and general troubleshooting. The second part
of the book provides case studies that focus on the common topics that
have been problematic for customers and those supporting Cisco networks.

Full of practical examples and configurations, this book draws on years
of experience to help you keep your Cisco networks running efficiently.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1587052369/

Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies imparts a deep
understanding of Cisco IOS(r) embedded management for monitoring and
optimizing performance, together with proven best strategies for both
accounting and performance management.

Benoit Claise and Ralf Wolter begin by introducing the role of
accounting and performance management in today’s large-scale data and
voice networks. They present widely accepted performance standards and
definitions, along with today’s best practice methodologies for data
collection.

Next, they turn to Cisco devices and the Cisco IOS Software,
illuminating embedded management and device instrumentation features
that enable you to thoroughly characterize performance, plan network
enhancements, and anticipate potential problems and prevent them.
Network standards, technologies, and Cisco solutions covered in depth
include Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) and Management
Information Bases (MIB), Remote Monitoring (RMON), IP accounting,
NetFlow, BGP policy accounting, AAA Accounting, Network Based
Application Recognition (NBAR), and IP SLA (formerly known as SAA). For
each, the authors present practical examples and hands-on techniques.

The book concludes with chapter-length scenarios that walk you through
accounting and performance management for five different applications:
data network monitoring, capacity planning, billing, security, and voice
network performance.

Network Management: Accounting and Performance Strategies will be
indispensable to every professional concerned with network performance,
effectiveness, or profitability, especially NMS/OSS architects, network
and service designers, network administrators, and anyone responsible
for network accounting or billing.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1587051982/

In the NGN world, no truer words are spoken than “the future is now.”
And the competition in the information networking arena will only
intensify in the next 5-10 years. Choosing the correct NGN-VAS strategy
now will set your company apart. Value Added Services for Next
Generation Networks examines the quest for the real added value in
modern communication systems. The author covers more than just the
technology itself, but also examines how it is being used and how it
could be used to gain a strategic advantage. The book starts with a SOTW
analysis for PSTN/GSM operators and new entrants and the threats they
will undoubtedly face. The author examines the fundamentals of genuine
communication services and the service providers’ starting position,
then takes you on a tour through the landscape of NGN standards,
contrasting the 3GPP IMS architecture with that of IETF, UMA, and OMA.
He discusses practical ways to build an NGN SDP and the essential
business aspects involved in this enterprise. The book highlights how,
technically, the NGN can be interconnected, or glued, to the existing
GSM/PSTN infrastructure, justifying the choice of protocols and network
architecture. It also describes general concepts, architectural
requirements, and technologies in modern VAS platform and new VAS for
the NGN in terms of network implementation, end user experience,
business scope, and cost/revenue projections. But is NGN just a game of
investments in equipment, of CAPEX and OPEX savings? Is the so-called
triple play just a matter of marketing, partnerships, and mergers? How
will the market play out? Where will the NGN and VAS ultimately go? And
more importantly, what is your NGN-VAS strategy? By addressing these
questions and more, this book prepares you for success in the emerging
telecommunications environment.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0849373182/

As one of the few rising stars of the semiconductor industry, WLAN
design is engaging more and more engineers and companies. Essential to
the overall system design, is the radio design. In Wireless LAN Radios
Arya Behzad covers the necessary theory while emphasizing the practical
aspects of this promising technology. This book introduces the nuances
of the 802.11 WLAN PHY standards (A/B/G) and describes their
specifications and impact on radio design. The possible choices for the
radio architecture (direct-conversion, low-IF, super heterodyne) are
examined and their impact on the transistor-level design is explained.
Coverage includes the effect of certain analog/RF impairments on the
overall system performance and a discussion of the choice of process
technology on the radio architecture.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0471709646/

Groundbreaking Patterns for Building Simpler, More Powerful Networks

In Patterns in Network Architecture, pioneer John Day takes a unique
approach to solving the problem of network architecture. Piercing the
fog of history, he bridges the gap between our experience from the
original ARPANET and today’s Internet to a new perspective on
networking. Along the way, he shows how socioeconomic forces derailed
progress and led to the current crisis.

Beginning with the seven fundamental, and still unanswered, questions
identified during the ARPANET’s development, Patterns in Network
Architecture returns to bedrock and traces our experience both good and
bad. Along the way, he uncovers overlooked patterns in protocols that
simplify design and implementation and resolves the classic conflict
between connection and connectionless while retaining the best of both.
He finds deep new insights into the core challenges of naming and
addressing, along with results from upper-layer architecture. All of
this in Day’s deft hands comes together in a tour de force of elegance
and simplicity with the annoying turn of events that the answer has been
staring us in the face: Operating systems tell us even more about
networking than we thought. The result is, in essence, the first
“unified theory of networking,” and leads to a simpler, more
powerful-and above all-more scalable network infrastructure. The book
then lays the groundwork for how to exploit the result in the design,
development, and management as we move beyond the limitations of the
Internet.

Using this new model, Day shows how many complex mechanisms in the
Internet today (multihoming, mobility, and multicast) are, with this
collapse in complexity, now simply a consequence of the structure. The
problems of router table growth of such concern today disappear. The
inescapable conclusion is that the Internet is an unfinished demo, more
in the tradition of DOS than Unix, that has been living on Moore’s Law
and 30 years of band-aids. It is long past time to get networking back
on track.

- Patterns in network protocols that synthesize
“contradictory” approaches and simplify design and implementation
- “Deriving” that networking is interprocess communication
(IPC) yielding
- A distributed IPC model that repeats with different scope
and range of operation
- Making network addresses topological makes routing purely a
local matter
- That in fact, private addresses are the norm-not the
exception-with the consequence that the global public addresses required
today are unnecessary
- That mobility is dynamic multihoming and unicast is a subset
of multicast, but multicast devolves into unicast and facilitates
mobility
- That the Internet today is more like DOS, but what we need
should be more like Unix
- For networking researchers, architects, designers, engineers

Provocative, elegant, and profound, Patterns in Network Architecture
transforms the way you envision, architect, and implement networks.

URL: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0132252422/