Networking for Systems Administrators (IT Mastery)

Networking for Systems Administrators (IT Mastery)

Stop waiting for the network team!<br /><br />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. <br /><br />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.<br /><br />This book teaches you:<br /><br />•How modern networks really work<br />•The essentials of TCP/IP<br />•The next-generation protocol, IPv6<br />•The right tools to diagnose network problems, and how to use them<br />•Troubleshooting everything from the physical wire to DNS<br />•How to see the traffic you send and receive<br />•Connectivity testing<br />•How to communicate with your network team to quickly resolve problems<br /><br />A systems administrator doesn’t need to know the innards of TCP/IP, but knowing enough to diagnose your own network issues transforms a good sysadmin into a great one.