Books: A User's Report
April 2001
by Elizabeth Zinkann
This month's reviews cover a wider range of topics than usual. From FreeBSD to intrusion sluething to SQL to mod_perl to a visual UNIX book, the books for this column include: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide by Ted Mittelstaedt (Addison-Wesley), Intrusion Signatures and Analysis by Stephen Northcutt, Mark Cooper, Matt Fearnow, and Karen Frederick (New Riders Press); SQL In A Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference by Kevin Kline with Daniel Kline (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.); mod_perl Pocket Reference by Andrew Ford (O'Reilly & Associates, Inc.); UNIX: Your Visual Blueprint to the Universe of UNIX by Michael Bellomo (maranGraphics and Hungry Minds Books, formerly IDG Books).
The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide
Ted Mittelstaedt
Addison-Wesley
ISBN 0-201-70481-1
401 Pages
$49.95
CD-ROM Included
http://www.awl.com/cseng
This impressive and practical guide to FreeBSD illustrates its advantages and capabilities and also demonstrates how to use this reliable and popular system. Mittelstaedt explores the FreeBSD/Windows co-existence, the Internet protocol perspective, and the FreeBSD installation and configuration options. He begins with FreeBSD Serving Windows Networks, which examines the functions of FreeBSD and Windows within the same system. Following the introduction, the author discusses DHCP, DNS, and TCP/IP on the Corporate LAN, exploring the TCP/IP protocol suite's varied services, setup for different platforms, and application programs. The next chapters describe FreeBSD Installation and FreeBSD System Administration. (The author mentions an interesting catch-22 in the Preface:
"You need to know how FreeBSD works before you can install it properly, but you need an installed FreeBSD system before you can learn how it works."
|
