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Stop waiting for the network team!

If basic TCP/IP was hard, network administrators couldn't do it. Servers give sysadmins a incredible visibility into the network-once they know how to unlock it.

Most sysadmins don't need to understand window scaling, or the differences between IPv4 and IPv6 echo requests, or other intricacies of the TCP/IP protocols. You need only enough to deploy your own applications and get easy support from the network team.

This book teaches you:

• How modern networks really work
• The essentials of TCP/IP
• The core of IPv4 and IPv6
• The right tools to diagnose network problems, and how to use them
• Troubleshooting everything from the physical wire to DNS
• How to see the traffic you send and receive
• Connectivity testing
• How to communicate with your network team to quickly resolve problems

A sysadmin doesn't need to know the innards of TCP/IP, but knowing enough to diagnose your own network issues will transforms a good sysadmin into a great one.

The first edition of Networking for System Administrators unlocked networking for hundreds of thousands of sysadmins. This second edition promises the same, and more!

Table of Contents

Chapter 0: The Problem

Chapter 1: Network Layers

Chapter 2: Ethernet

Chapter 3: IPv4

Chapter 4: IPv6

Chapter 5: TCP/IP

Chapter 6: Viewing Network Connections

Chapter 7: Transport Layer Security

Chapter 8: Network Testing Basics

Chapter 9: The Domain Name System

Chapter 10: Tracing Problems

Chapter 11: Packet Sniffing

Chapter 12: Creating Traffic

Chapter 13: Server Packet Filtering