- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 1 edition (16 Aug 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 059600186X
- ISBN-13: 978-0596001865
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 19.1 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 962,970 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Hooray for Joseph Sloan, who has written Network Troubleshooting Tools. Sloan's book catalogues--and evaluates, with intelligent and carefully researched commentary--scores of free utilities that have been developed for monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting TCP/IP networks large and small. As such, it's a guide to the tools of the network administration trade. Without the concentrated wisdom that's found here, a network administrator might take years to stumble across all the fantastically useful utilities described in these pages, and waste all kinds of effort in the process. This book has found an excellent niche: A high-level technical book that earns its cover price by applying an author's experience and research to stuff that's freely available online, thus adding to readers' abilities to exploit the free stuff that's out there.
The organisation Sloan has chosen is interesting and efficient. Chapters deal with categories of utilities, such as packet sniffers and device mapping. Chapters begin with descriptions of the general purpose of utilities in their category, and describe features (and alternate means of providing them) in general terms. Then come sections on utilities, complete with commentaries on the strengths of each and command-line dumps of the utilities in use. As utilities often are best used together, the author does a good job of showing what steps to take when that needs to be done. There's no companion CD-ROM, but the URLs that link to the utilities appear--sorted alphabetically by the programs' names, in an appendix. --David Wall
Topics covered: The free utilities--mostly for Unix variants--that the author has found to be most useful in his work as an administrator and troubleshooter of TCP/IP networks. Utilities for route tracing, packet sniffing, device detection, performance measurement, and other work are covered here.
Dale Farris, Golden Traingle PC Club, Feb 2002
An excellent collection of the best freely available tools for debugging and troubleshooting computer networks.
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book covers a variety of information for every sort of network administrator. It show how basic tools can be used to monitor and troubleshoot as well as easily available free utilities. While it might not go into detail as much as you might hope, it does give a broad overview of essential tools for looking after your system. Recommended
8 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you've passed your MCSE (NT/Win2K) and need to braoden your tcp/ip knowledge, either because you're interested in tcp/ip (like me), or want give yourself an advantage over others in the job market (not that anyone would do this!), then this is the book for you.
Sloan has written the book to a detailed level, but the detail is clear enough for anyone to follow. Any reader's abilites and knowledge will advance a lot further, and find their job much more rewarding and easier as a result.
Buy the book and impress the cyber-illiterati
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21 of 24 people found the following review helpful
I found this to be very helpful.
4 Nov 2001
Format:Paperback
I have been involved with networks and networking for over 12 years and I am always looking for new ways to make sure the network is running at its best, this book has provided me ideas that I hadn't thought of before and the information is easy enough to understand.
The author packs a serious amount of information in the 325 plus pages. Well documented and well laid out the author begins by showing you how to troubleshoot and what steps you'll have to take in the problem resolution process.
Using NETSTAT, IFCONFIG, IPCONFIG and WINIPCFG, ARP and PING are some of the utilities that are broken down and included in the book. Working with Windows, Windows NT/2000 and UNIX networks is the focus of the book.
Other topics included are working with and the breakdown of cables and cabling, use of TRACEROUTE or TRACERT, analyzing traffics and packets through filtering and SNMP. Checking out the performance of the network is also an essential item and the author shows what traffic and bandwidth tools you can use.
Finally FTP and TFTP servers and utilities are covered as well as troubleshooting planning. Overall for the network technician of all skill levels should be able to benefit from something in this book - well done.
17 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Not worth the O'reilly name
20 Mar 2002
Format:Paperback
This might be a decent reference book if it contained more detailed information. I am a junior in college and was required to read this book from cover to cover and it was extremely boring. Anything the author discussed could easily be learned from help files or a quick glance at the website the product came from. THe author uses the phrase 'this is beyond the scope of this book' just when he begins to talk about something you may not have already known.
In conclusion, this would probably be an excellent book for somebody just starting out using troubleshooting tools, but if you have had more then 6 months experience in the field you already know most of the topics he covers.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
OK
19 April 2003
Format:Paperback
Eh, book was okay, but didn't really flip my burger. If you want a nice primer on some of the software tools and commands that you can use for monitoring system performance, this book would probably be just fine. Could have used more graphics. Good for reading at bedtime or in your time off, but just a little too wordy looking if you're in the field actually trying to get something done.
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