Upgrading and Repairing Networks (2nd Edition) - Softcover

Terry William Ogletree

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0789720345 ISBN 13: 9780789720344

Publisher: Que Pub, 1999

Synopsis

Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Second Edition is a comprehensive reference guide to help network administrators address and resolve daily network problems, and understand exactly how to upgrade their network. This book enables networking professionals to stay in tune with the increasingly complex task of computer networking. The book is structured so that you can find answers to a specific problem quickly. The book allows system administrators to diagnose and address network problems. It will include cross-references to other problems and solutions. Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Second Edition addresses upgrading in individual chapters from different hardware, network protocols and network operating systems.

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Review

Though he didn't do the writing himself, Scott Mueller's involvement in Upgrading and Repairing Networks is evident in the thoroughness of the book's coverage and the quality with which documentation has been written and compiled. Like Mueller's highly respected books on personal computer hardware, this book treats its subject in great depth, acknowledging that information about older technologies is valuable to the significant numbers of people who still run those technologies. Pretty much every local area network (LAN) technology from the past 15 years--as well as the most popular internetworking technologies and the emerging wireless networking protocols--are documented here. Author Terry Ogletree explains how the technologies work in order to help you figure out where to turn when they're misbehaving. One difference between this book and the PC hardware book: this one is much less hardware-centric, focusing instead on software, protocols, and network services.

Ogletree relies heavily on text, and takes time to explain everything from the histories of various protocols to Microsoft's design goals for Active Directory in Windows 2000 networks. Reading his text is rewarding, particularly if you have an appropriately networked system nearby with which you can investigate the features he points out. Operating system coverage is broad--Unix, Linux, NetWare, and Windows are all covered in turn--though most generic sections (such as those having to do with protocols) use Windows NT or Windows 2000 in their examples. --David Wall

Topics covered: The state of the art in local and wide area networking technology (emphasis on LANs), and the older technologies that led us here. Physical network design, protocols, operating systems, and services all get attention.

From the Back Cover

Even if you aren't a networking professional, Upgrading and Repairing Networks explains those tough networking concepts in a way that won't make you reach for a bottle of aspirin, starting with the fundamentals and working through more advanced concepts. Now in its fourth edition, this industry classic networking reference gives you real world, in-depth explanations of confusing networking architectures and protocols, and helps you track down and repair networking problems that are costing you and/or your company money - right now. Don't be the only networking professional caught in a network meltdown without a copy of this trusty tome at your side.

Edition details

• Publisher: Que Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0789720345
• ISBN 13: 9780789720344
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 1000