Networking for Systems Administrators, 2nd Edition Sponsor

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This book does not exist yet. This item is to sponsor me writing it.

Print sponsors get their names in the ebook and print version of the book, the DRM-free ebook, and a physical gift that might or might not be the book. Please provide a shipping address!

I’m also running a Kickstarter for this book, but that will act more as a pre-order once I have the book written. Sponsors support me as I write and test the manuscript. The print sponsorship will also be the only way to get a personalized signed book mailed to you, or to get your name in the book. If I get ~100 print sponsors again, I will do another challenge coin.

Not sure if you’ve already bought this? Check your recent orders If you sponsor twice, you get your name in twice. Double print sponsors will get two identical gifts. (Yes, I watch for these and let people know when I catch them, but if I miss it, oh well.)

Stop waiting for the network team!

If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn’t do it. Servers give sysadmins incredible visibility into the network—once they know how to unlock it.

Most sysadmins don’t need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own applications and get easy support from the network team.

This book teaches you:

• How modern networks really work
• The essentials of legacy IPv4
• The modern IP protocol, IPv6
• The right tools to diagnose network problems, and how to use them
• Troubleshooting everything from the physical wire to DNS
• How to view the traffic you send and receive
• Testing with TLS
• Connectivity checking
• How to communicate with your network team to quickly resolve problems

A systems administrator doesn’t need to know the innards of TCP/IP, but knowing enough to diagnose your own network issues transforms a good sysadmin into a great one.

This book received lots of praise, but it’s ten years old. It was written in a desperate hurry verging on panic. The world has changed. It needs polishing, updating, and refining.