- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (Aug 16 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 059600186X
- ISBN-13: 978-0596001865
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.1 x 2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 621 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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#808,198 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #71 in Books > Computers & Internet > Software > Business > Utilities
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Hooray for Joseph Sloan, who has written Network Troubleshooting Tools. Sloan's book catalogues--and evaluates, with intelligent and carefully researched commentary--scores of free utilities that have been developed for monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks large and small. As such, it's a guide to the tools of the network administration trade. Without the concentrated wisdom that's found here, a network administrator might take years to stumble across all the fantastically useful utilities described in these pages, and waste all kinds of effort in the process. This book has found an excellent niche: A high-level technical book that earns its cover price by applying an author's experience and research to stuff that's freely available online, thus adding to readers' abilities to exploit the free stuff that's out there.
The organisation Sloan has chosen is interesting and efficient. Chapters deal with categories of utilities, such as packet sniffers and device mapping. Chapters begin with descriptions of the general purpose of utilities in their category, and describe features (and alternate means of providing them) in general terms. Then come sections on utilities, complete with commentaries on the strengths of each and command-line dumps of the utilities in use. As utilities often are best used together, the author does a good job of showing what steps to take when that needs to be done. There's no companion CD-ROM, but the URLs that link to the utilities appear--sorted alphabetically by the programs' names, in an appendix. --David Wall
Topics covered: The free utilities--mostly for Unix variants--that the author has found to be most useful in his work as an administrator and troubleshooter of TCP/IP networks. Utilities for route tracing, packet sniffing, device detection, performance measurement, and other work are covered here.
Review
An excellent collection of the best freely available tools for debugging and troubleshooting computer networks. -- Dale Farris, Golden Traingle PC Club, Feb 2002
One of the Top Ten Books for 2001. -- Peter H. Salus, ;login: Dec 2001
One of the Top Ten Books for 2001. -- Peter H. Salus, ;login: Dec 2001
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3.0 out of 5 stars
OK,
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This review is from: Network Troubleshooting Tools (Paperback)
Eh, book was okay, but didn't really flip my burger. If you want a nice primer on some of the software tools and commands that you can use for monitoring system performance, this book would probably be just fine. Could have used more graphics. Good for reading at bedtime or in your time off, but just a little too wordy looking if you're in the field actually trying to get something done.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Pretty good,
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This review is from: Network Troubleshooting Tools (Paperback)
Could have covered more but was worth what you paid for. Not too shabby.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good coverage; worthwhile,
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This review is from: Network Troubleshooting Tools (Paperback)
I bot this book for a friend who is a Jr-Mid level network (Unix) admin., who needed advice on this topic. This book does cover all the necessary topics. It's understandable, not overwhelming, and, as the TOC shows, covers lots of useful, relevant topics. It's also very practical. Worth buying!
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