FreeBSD runs many of the Web's most demanding applications. Yahoo! uses FreeBSD to deliver nearly 500 million page hits a day; even Microsoft's Hotmail has run for years on FreeBSD. Now, there's a single source of documentation for the thousands of technical professionals who've discovered FreeBSD and want to leverage its awesome power. The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide covers everything IT professionals need to know to deploy and manage FreeBSD in applications from the desktop to high availability enterprise servers. Start with an overview of how FreeBSD compares with Windows NT, and the roles a FreeBSD server might play in an enterprise network. Next, review server planning, hardware selection, and infrastructure preparation; then walk through the steps involved in a successful FreeBSD installation. Master every aspect of FreeBSD Internet connectivity and services -- including TCP/IP, DNS, security, Apache, email, and more. Learn the fundamentals of FreeBSD system administration; use FreeBSD systems as firewalls and routers; configure Samba to support Windows workstations; deliver efficient print services, and more.The book concludes with a "manifesto" explaining why companies should consider migrating all their business-critical applications to FreeBSD, whatever they're using now. An accompanying CD-ROM contains FreeBSD 4.1, the latest version.
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From the Back Cover "FreeBSD has been the secret weapon of serious network administrators for many years now and this book should provide a welcome introduction to those who have yet to discover it for themselves." --Jordan Hubbard, Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project
FreeBSD is the engine that runs on some of today's largest Internet servers, such as Yahoo!, Microsoft's Hotmail, and Walnut Creek. The power, flexibility, and cost effectiveness of FreeBSD make it the preferred server platform of many corporate networks, including networks in which the Windows OS predominates.
The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide provides practical instructions for using FreeBSD to serve a largely Windows corporate network. Written for network managers and administrators, this book shows how FreeBSD and Windows can coexist and interoperate on the same network with few problems, and it reveals how to maximize FreeBSD's many advantages for optimal network performance.
The book contains an overview of FreeBSD serving a Windows network and a step-by-step FreeBSD installation guide. Key network server topics--system administration, Internet connectivity, Web servers, fileserving, printserving, and e-mail--are addressed in depth. You will read about specific topics, such as:
The FreeBSD user interface versus the Windows user interface Dual booting of Windows NT and FreeBSD DNS, DHCP, and TCP/IP on the corporate LAN FreeBSD installation phases, X installation, PPP installation, and disk configuration FreeBSD environment setup, backups, logs, and other system administrative tasks Migrating password files, UNIX equivalents of DOS commands, and some Windows-to-UNIX issues Internet security, proxy serving, and FreeBSD routers The Apache Web server, Windows Web publishing tools, and the vi HTML tool
Fileserving with Samba-SMB and NetBIOS protocols, browsing, and passwords Setting up LPR on Windows clients and FreeBSD Managing the UNIX printserver queue Installing Sendmail on FreeBSD Connecting a mailserver to the Internet
In addition, The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide highlights FreeBSD's many technical advantages, the history and rationale behind its development, and its relationship to Linux.The CD that comes with this book contains the base FreeBSD 4.2 operating system for the Intel i386 platform, including installer and bootable CD-ROM support. The disk also contains XFree86 3.3.6 for FreeBSD, and several hundred of the most popular third-party packages for FreeBSD.
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I have used FreeBSD as a server software platform, right alongside Windows NT servers, in all of the corporate networks that I managed at the companies that I have worked at. FreeBSD has performed extremely well for routing, mail, webserving, fileserving, and other general-purpose corporate serving tasks. I have been very impressed by FreeBSD's efficiency on server hardware that is now considered too old and slow for Windows 2000, such as Pentium 200Mhz, 64MB ram systems. Today as I replace Windows NT 4 servers with new hardware running Windows 2K, I regularly cycle the obsolete NT4 hardware into FreeBSD servers that frequently outperform their Windows 2000 sisters in speed and reliability.
I wrote "The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide" with the goal of helping the organizational network admin quickly come up to speed with FreeBSD. The book bridges the gap between introductory UNIX texts, such as those frequently found in Intro to UNIX classes at the local college, and the extremely advanced texts such as "The Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD Operating System" by Marshall Kirk McKusick (also available from Amazon) that are intended for programmers. Rather than approaching the subject from a general UNIX or Linux viewpoint, I focused on FreeBSD to permit specific examples and instruction.
I hope that the book becomes your most-used reference text in your FreeBSD library, and I look forward to your comments and feedback which can be mailed to book@freebsd-corp-net-guide.com
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you use FreeBSD, support the cause and buy this book!,
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This review is from: FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)
I am a network intrusion detector building and deploying FreeBSD-based sensors for use at work and home. I am trying to augment my "end user" perspective with an administrator's skill set. I was anxious to add to my limited knowledge of installing and configuring FreeBSD.Ted says his book "is written for beginning FreeBSD administrators," and has "operating with the Microsoft operating system and networking as a primary goal." This is true. The perfect reader is comfortable with installing and manipulating FreeBSD, but is not sure how best to implement FreeBSD-based email, web, print, or Windows share serving. Newbies will not find enough hand-holding, and gurus on a man-page diet may not be satisfied. A unique aspect of the book is its analysis of Microsoft's products. With a FreeBSD bias, Ted is not afraid to lift up the Microsoft rock and show the bugs scurrying underneath. Windows devotees might welcome some of his hints on administering Microsoft's email products! This 400-page book devotes substantial sections to non-BSD topics like advocacy and history (40+ pages), router configuration, and general email services, which didn't bother me. Similar to Rod Smith's approach in The Multi-Boot Configuration Handbook, inclusion of material beyond strict FreeBSD configuration helps build well-rounded system administrators. Those needing more detail and explicit instructions would probably wish for less history and more command-line configuration. The strongest feature is the author's breadth of knowledge and devotion to linking FreeBSD to multiple Microsoft OS products. Who needs to run TCP/IP on DOS, and have it talk to FreeBSD? If you do, check out this book! (Fond memories of installing Trumpet Winsock on Windows 3.1 in 1994 resurfaced while reading p. 56.) The weakest aspect is the book's implicit assumption that the reader is the type who is comfortable reading manual pages. While Ted may seem to be looking out for the newbie (explaining the term "shell," even, on page 18), I still felt the tug of the man page. I hope this book is successful and encourages updates to Greg Lehey's "The Complete FreeBSD" and inspires other FreeBSD gurus to write their own books. Thanks for the great work Ted!
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A book you'll keep,
By Domi (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)
Buy the FreeBSD CNG if you want to spend a week-end (and more) discovering and playing with FreeBSD. It's a nice deal for $49.95. It is also a useful acquisition for more fluent users who look for a book that consolidates information about where to find information about FreeBSD.I admit it right away, I did not buy the book for the contents but rather for the FreeBSD 4.2 CD-ROM. A cheap way to get a recent release without downloading an obscene amount of data over Internet. An impulse act of consumerism some would say. I'm not (read not at all) an expert in FreeBSD but I already installed and used it on various machines. So, I'm not the best person to tell whether or not you can use the FreeBSD CNG to start from scratch. But I would say yes because while reading some chapters, you clearly see that the author actually went through the stuff he's talking about. If you reach a road block when installing and configuring FreeBSD you'll probably find a way to get out of the pit while browsing the book. The text is full of pointers which will guide you through the gory parts of a first FreeBSD installation, as well as future changes of configurations. Anyway, as the author says himself up front, read the online manuals and documentation (thank you for saying so). To which you must add that installing FreeBSD is simple compared to some others OSes which, supposedly, do all the things for you. Although I don't think it is its primary goal, the FreeBSD CNG is a good compromise between the two other books about FreeBSD: "The Complete FreeBSD" (which starts with more basic stuff, slightly outdated but still a good introduction for the complete beginner) and the FreeBSD Handbook (which has no structure nor index and that you get online as well as on your system once it's running). If you're not fluent in basic UNIX, also buy a "good" UNIX administration handbook. My own cent: Unix System Administration Handbook Evi Nemeth and others, PH/PTR. The FreeBSD CNG provides a good overview of what you can expect from FreeBSD. It goes beyond technical issues: history, advocacy, coexistence with Windows systems. Useful to System Administrators who want to introduce FreeBSD within a corporation. It also provides some unexpected information (the speech about the ISPs for instance). You'll like it because, the author does not tell you how things are supposed to be but how they are. There are many tidbits you can reuse in front of people for showing off (but don't do it because you never know who you're talking to). In addition, the author does it without controversy (if you like controversy, go to slashdot.org). The FreeBSD CNG covers a lot of ground (always a challenge). The author does it well. If you buy and read this book, you will want to use FreeBSD. As the French say "l'essayer c'est l'adopter".
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A good FreeBSD book.,
This review is from: FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (With CD-ROM) (Paperback)
I was one of the reviewers of this book, and I am very happy to see how well this book turned out.I have often missed a book I could point people at when they ask "How to do ...". This one seems to fill that need nicely, well overflow it actually :-) Ted knows where his towel is, and if I should launch any complaint against his book it will be that sometimes he gets far and away from the title: "ISP's peering agreements" for instance. But Ted knows his facts so I am sure that a lot of people will learn a good deal more from his book than they bargained for. Throughout the book I have found lots of information which I am sure I could have located on the web somewhere but having it all here, in a single volume, puts it on my handbook/reference shelf, an honour it shares with only 17 other books. I don't mind there being ten times as many books about Linux, if only the FreeBSD books are this good. Poul-Henning Kamp, FreeBSD developer since 1992
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