Lans Wans category: 82 books

Network analysis using Wireshark Cookbook contains more than 100 practical recipes for analyzing your network and troubleshooting problems in the network. This book provides you with simple and practical recipes on how to solve networking problems with a step-by-step approach.This book is aimed at research...

OpenBSD’s stateful packet filter, PF, is the heart of the OpenBSD firewall. With more and more services placing high demands on bandwidth and an increasingly hostile Internet environment, no sysadmin can afford to be without PF expertise. The third edition of The Book of PF covers the most...

Whether your network is a complex carrier or just a few machines supporting a small enterprise, JUNOS High Availability will help you build reliable and resilient networks that include Juniper Networks devices. With this book's valuable advice on software upgrades, scalability, remote network monitoring...

Considered the go-to study guide for Juniper Networks enterprise routing certification exams, this book offers you unparalleled coverage of all the services available to Junos administrators—including the most recent set of flow-based security services and design guidelines that incorporate services...

There are lots of nice guys in residential contracting. Here, you are introduced to one with whom residents loved to strike up deals. But then, this "nice guy" was strongly reminiscent to "Houdini." Here, in "Snake Eyes & A Scratch-Off Ticket ... ...," you are going to witness how this incredible...

There are hundreds--if not thousands--of techniques used to compromise both Windows and Unix-based systems. Malicious code and new exploit scripts are released on a daily basis, and each evolution becomes more and more sophisticated. Keeping up with the myriad of systems used by hackers in the wild...

"New Assertiveness Among U.S. Homeowners ... ..." is an entirely resident-friendly presentation especially assembled for you as an American private home decision maker. The major focus is on you being better prepared for making the best possible choices for the sort of people you may select and hire...

Good system administrators recognize problems long before anyone asks, "Hey, is the Internet down?" Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool, has emerged as the most popular solution for sys admins in organizations of all sizes. It's robust but also complex, and Nagios:...

If you're a Unix system administrator, then the information you need every day just to get your job done could fill a book--a very large book. But, practically speaking, you don't want to stop and thumb through a weighty volume each time a problem arises. Your answer is the Essential System Administration...

If you’re ready to build a large network system, this handy excerpt from Ethernet: The Definitive Guide, Second Edition gets you up to speed on a basic building block: Ethernet switches. Whether you’re working on an enterprise or campus network, data center, or Internet service provider network,...

As we all know by now, wireless networks offer many advantages over fixed (or wired) networks. Foremost on that list is mobility, since going wireless frees you from the tether of an Ethernet cable at a desk. But that's just the tip of the cable-free iceberg. Wireless networks are also more flexible,...

A practical guide to capturing and analyzing network traffic using Wireshark.  This book shows real world network traffic analysis and shows the techniques that DevOp teams need to use to detect malicious behavior. Additionally it shows how DevOps can translate packet captures into valuable information by decoding IP packets and detect malicious activity

This book is aimed at those wishing to learn how to do IP subnetting. This is often a confusing subject but in this short book we strive to show you a quick and simple metho that is use by the professionals.

One of the secrets to the ever-increasing popularity of Windows Server can be found in the simplicity its administration. The easy-to-use GUI, consistent set of tools, and wizards that walk you through complex tasks allow you to install, configure and maintain Windows servers without any knowledge...