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Network Administrators Survival Guide

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The growth of the open source software community in recent years has been nothing less than amazing. And it should be no surprise that software to run on or in conjuction with Cisco products is available as well. The problem is to find, evaluate and decide which open source products are worth taking your time to learn. The time it takes to download, install, and learn enough about the software to begin to get useful information from it is often daunting.

Mr. Deveriya is a network engineer who sets up networds using Cisco technology and products. He says, 'Due to the high cost of commercial tools and the crippling post-dot-com economy, I was forced to look for freeware tools to help me admisnister my network. I spent a lot of time on the Internet searching for the right tool and then even more time trying to configure it to suit my needs. Some tools offer too much information, while others provide too little. Realizing my plight, and that of my fellow Netadmins, I decided to document my experience.'

There is a tremendous amount of money to be saved using Freeware. This book will help you sort out the wheat from the chaff.

No depth and no plan for how to cover the bases of network admin. Basically a pseudo-random list of opensource programs with really going into any details of application and configuration. Read any Linux magazine to get more detail.

This book is very well written and a great reference guide to hve with you all the time...

Network Administrators Survival Guide, by Anand Deveriya is part of a new trend from Cisco Press I have been noting: they are pushing more hands on usefulness.
This book is intended for the person who has to support a network for a living. However, the reader does not need to be a Cisco expert to read this book. In fact, anyone who would be in a position to need its advice should be astute enough to implement it.

Don't expect the author to explain all of the concepts behind every IOS command given. Deveriya is giving you a quick example of what works to get you going. This book is written for people who need to get things done in a hurry and don't have time to get their Ph.D. in a technology before implementing it. That doesn't mean their is no depth behind this writing. The author is a CCIE and the reviewers include William Parkhurst, Ph.D., author of some of the most technical books on Cisco. In fact there must have been a great deal of laborious rewriting to get it so brief.

Deveriya has practical examples of how to set up several different brands of terminal emulation clients on both windows and Linux workstations. The entire book obviously comes from real world experience. The author not only reveals the diverse diagnostic functionality built into the Cisco IOS, he also demonstrates the tools that can be used on Windows and Linux workstations. The author walks the reader through a case study troubleshooting a BGP meltdown problem on a perimeter router by simply using different ping diagnostics along with show processes cpu. "We" were able to determine the cause and enabling ip route cache on the router solved the problem. "Once again super ping saves the day!"

Network administration problems often have common denominators when it comes to Cisco system management, so any network administrator will welcome Network Administrators Survival Guide, which is offers chapters based on network functions. Each chapter provides an overview of the function, tools available, methods for configuration, and usage. Both Windows and Linux operating systems are covered in tools which take advantage of different operating systems, while author Anand Deveriya's field experience lends to identifying common traps and problems involved in set-up.