Good networking books for a beginner?
Chuck Swiger
cswiger at mac.com
Sun Oct 1 05:49:02 PDT 2006
Chris Hill wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Rob wrote:
>
>> Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about
>> networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the
>> 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper.
>
> For me, the old standby is "TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt
> (aka the "crab book"). Published by O'Reilly. I learned a lot from it.
Seconded.
This is probably the single most useful O'Reilly book for general
networking/sysadmin tasks, and it includes some chapters or appendices on
NFS/NIS, BIND, sendmail, and other common services that are very informative
in addition.
--
-Chuck
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