From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 1 12:49:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B912516A403 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:49:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08EED43DB0 for ; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 12:48:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 727125EC8; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:48:55 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id OkRLpoPgQWsz; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:48:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.251] (pool-68-161-96-195.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.96.195]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A6A25C6E; Sun, 1 Oct 2006 08:48:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <451FB935.8030503@mac.com> Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 08:48:53 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <6bcc7a470609302112g23ca6e34u6e7af43353f78285@mail.gmail.com> <20061001005612.R2422@tripel.monochrome.org> In-Reply-To: <20061001005612.R2422@tripel.monochrome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Rob , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Good networking books for a beginner? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 12:49:02 -0000 Chris Hill wrote: > On Sun, 1 Oct 2006, Rob wrote: > >> Does anyone happen to know of any good books that explain all about >> networking in detail (such as gateways, netmasks, etc)? I know the >> 'basics' but would like to dig in a little deeper. > > For me, the old standby is "TCP/IP Network Administration" by Craig Hunt > (aka the "crab book"). Published by O'Reilly. I learned a lot from it. Seconded. This is probably the single most useful O'Reilly book for general networking/sysadmin tasks, and it includes some chapters or appendices on NFS/NIS, BIND, sendmail, and other common services that are very informative in addition. -- -Chuck