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Novell's Guide to BorderManger

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This is a great introduction to Novell's Border Manager. If you want to learn how to use, and setup Border manager this book is a good first step.

If you haven't heard about Bordermanager, this is your book. If you want in-depth information how these services supported by Bordermanager fits thogether, go to our lab and find the answer. This books covers Bordermanager 3.0 or later so for a general overview, yes, but using as a reference book, better keep your hands of. The step-by-step instructions, entitled as business-cases, are not well explained. I'm a bit disappointet, since the online-help of Bordermanager and the books delivered with the Bordermanager Software have the same level of information. But they're less expensive.

With the move to more and more on-line documentation, it is easier when there is a hard-copy reference somewhere. While not a definitive reference, it assisted in the first time set up of our Border Manager server.

While in whole I found this to be an informative book, I felt that (true to any book by Novell Press, or Microsoft Press for that matter) that the opinion of the writer and the slant of the publisher often shines through. Many statements were made about the superiority of the product over all others and also of the state of networking in the world today. This caused the book to come off as a bit of advertising and editorializing as well as a tech manual. I especially appreciated the in-depth installion information.