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  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited (17 Mar 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1847192645
  • ISBN-13: 978-1847192646
  • Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 18.8 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 505,374 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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This book is a guide to FreeBSD for network administrators; therefore it does not cover basic installation and configuration of FreeBSD, but is about using FreeBSD to build, secure, and maintain networks. After introducing the basic tools for monitoring the performance and security of the system the book moves on to cover using jails-FreeBSD virtual environments-to secure your network. Then it shows how to overcome the different bottlenecks that you may meet depending on the services you are running by tweaking different parameters to maintain a high performance from your FreeBSD server. Next it covers using the ifconfig utility to configure interfaces with different layer protocols and about connectivity testing and debugging tools. After covering using User PPP or Kernel PPP for Point-to-Point Protocol network configuration it explains basic IP forwarding in FreeBSD and the use of the built-in routing daemons, routed and route6d, which support RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng, and RDISC. Next it covers the OpenOSPFD and OpenBGPD daemons that you can install to run OSPF and BGP on your host.Then it covers setup and configuration of IPFW and PF, and finally looks at some important internet services and how to set them up on your FreeBSD server

About the Author

Babak Farrokhi


Babak Farrokhi is an experienced UNIX system administrator and Network Engineer who worked 12 years in the IT industry in carrier-level network service providers. He discovered FreeBSD around 1997 and since then he has been using it on a daily basis. He is also an experienced Solaris administrator and has extensive experience in TCP/IP networks.


In his spare time he contributes to the open source community and develops his skills to keep himself in the cutting edge.



Babak Farrokhi


Babak Farrokhi is an experienced UNIX system administrator and Network Engineer who worked 12 years in the IT industry in carrier-level network service providers. He discovered FreeBSD around 1997 and since then he has been using it on a daily basis. He is also an experienced Solaris administrator and has extensive experience in TCP/IP networks.


In his spare time he contributes to the open source community and develops his skills to keep himself in the cutting edge.


You may contact Babak at babak@farrokhi.net and his personal website at farrokhi.net



Babak Farrokhi


Babak Farrokhi is an experienced UNIX system administrator and Network Engineer who worked 12 years in the IT industry in carrier-level network service providers. He discovered FreeBSD around 1997 and since then he has been using it on a daily basis. He is also an experienced Solaris administrator and has extensive experience in TCP/IP networks.


In his spare time he contributes to the open source community and develops his skills to keep himself in the cutting edge.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, 22 Oct 2008
By C. Davies "Ceri Davies" (Cardiff, UK) - See all my reviews
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I was approached some time ago by Packt Publishing with a request to review Network Administration with FreeBSD 7, a new book by Babak Farrokhi who is a FreeBSD committer among other things.

Right from the Preface it seemed clear that neither the author nor any of the editorial staff were native English speakers which, being the way that I am, made it very difficult to get into. Somewhere around chapter three, this improved drastically however, and I could finally manage to concentrate on the content. Which is good news, because the content is excellent.

Network administrators at any scale, from LAN to WAN, will find something useful. Routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP are covered, and there's a good chapter on IPsec (and non-IPsec) tunnels which was directly useful to me personally while I was reading. Also welcome was information on IPv6 and a chapter on kernel tuning.

With multi-core systems such as Sun's X4450 behemoth and the fine-grained locking in the network stack that FreeBSD enjoys now that GIANT is pretty much a distant memory, using FreeBSD on an off-the-shelf system to run hardcore bits of the network is practical, and this book works really well as a way to find out what the system is capable of and how to get started. Short chapters on getting familiar with FreeBSD and basic administration are also included, so there's really no excuse not to take a look!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Not only network administration, 23 Oct 2008
By Ivan Voras - See all my reviews
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Though the book's title is "Network Administration with FreeBSD", it actually covers all aspects of bringing a FreeBSD system to a useful server configuration. It starts with a general introduction in topics like system setup, configuration, RAID, package management and jails, and continues to cover most aspects of network administration, from setting up basic IP (IPv4 and IPv6) to firewalls, tunneling and network servers (SSH, DNS, Apache, etc.).

I'd say the book is targeted to users beginning with FreeBSD but at least some experience (even if it's only cursory) with Unix or Linux systems administration. For this audience, it gets full marks.
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