From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 9 00:23:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA13265 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:23:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA13255 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 00:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id QAA04647; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:52:37 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id QAA16762; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:52:36 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981009165235.S3369@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 16:52:35 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Mark Cockrum , dc-stuff@dis.org, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: TCP/IP books References: <199810090452.VAA10123@titan.cc.wwu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199810090452.VAA10123@titan.cc.wwu.edu>; from Mark Cockrum on Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 09:52:19PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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