K. Dooley and I.J. Brown
O'Reilly, 2003, 885 pages
This book is a collection of command-line tools and short Perl
scripts for performing various maintenance tasks on Cisco routers,
organized in a problem-solution format. Very well written and
crammed with helpful advice about Cisco IOS and appropriate
warnings about anything that might give you "paws". Includes
recipes for configuring various aspects of RIP, BGP, OSPF, Frame Relay,
QoS, VPNs, SNMP, logging, ACLs, DHCP, NAT, HSRP (Hot Standby Router
Protocol), and multicasting. One disappointment is that flows and
VRRP are not covered. Even so, this book is an essential reference
for any network administrator. However, a CD is not included. This
is one book that would have benefited from a CD.
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