Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:52:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Mark Cockrum <n9842643@cc.wwu.edu>, dc-stuff@dis.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP books Message-ID: <19981009165235.S3369@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199810090452.VAA10123@titan.cc.wwu.edu>; from Mark Cockrum on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:52:19PM -0700 References: <199810090452.VAA10123@titan.cc.wwu.edu>
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On Thursday, 8 October 1998 at 21:52:19 -0700, Mark Cockrum wrote: > > I'm a college student who just installed a copy of FreeBSD that > got at Defcon this summer. I have a copy of The Complete FreeBSD > by Greg Lehey, and I am starting to feel "somewhat" comfortable > witht the operating system. Glad to hear it. > Greg's book goes somewhat in depht about TCP/IP, but i'm looking > for a book to contuning to learning about TCP/IP networks and > the security issues present in them. I noticed on defcon.org > a few books, namely TCP/IP illustrated vol. 1,2,3, Pratical > UNIX and internet security by Garfinkel and Spafford, and TCP/IP > network adminastration by Craig Hunt. You'll note that I mention Craig's book in the bibliography. I think it's one of the best practical books on the subject. > I'm hopeing for a book that can tie in TCP/IP security issues well > with UNIX (and namely FreeBSD) enviroments. (i.e. none of that > WinNT bullshit.) Keep in mind I don't know a great deal about UNIX > or TCP/IP (well, i got PPP to work in FreeBSD) so the book can't be > to top-heavy. Security issues are a problem in more than the obvious sense: until recently, people didn't worry about them, so there's not much available. I have a copy of Grafinkle and Spalford "Practical UNIX and Internet Security" (O'Reilly), but I haven't read enough of it to venture an opinion. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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