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Author: John Mairs
ISBN : 0072191813
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A comprehensive introduction to VPNs and networking basics, this book provides readers with a solid foundation of networking basics and the understanding necessary for learning the complexities of the VPN technology that follows. It takes the reader through the actual steps involved in provisioning the hardware, software and set-up with the provider of services for Internet access and communications carriers, thus leading to a comprehensive understanding of all VPN protocols. There is also detailed information about securing VPNs, including information on intrusion detection. Readers gain an understanding of security, encryption, encapsulation, key management and intrusion detection systems, all necessary for a secure network. Networking blueprints for 4 different types of VPNs, including IPSec and PPPT are also included.
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- Series: Network Professional's Library
- Paperback: 592 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill/OsborneMedia; 1st edition (December 14, 2001)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0072191813
- ISBN-13: 978-0072191813
- Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 7.2 x 9.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Free VPNs: A Beginner's Guide
This book does a good job covering the details of the various protocols and standards used in different types of VPN's. But the same information can be pulled in nearly the same format from RFC's.
After the first few chapters, the book get's confusing and is sometimes wrong when the author describes the process behind setup of a IPSEC VPN connection (there's a couple of places where AH is confused with ESP). Beyond that I found the book hard to follow because it lacks a broad comparison between different types of VPN's (why you would want to choose one type over another and so forth).
But even more irking was paying [item price] for a book that's full of typo's and repetitive sentences.
This is a terrible book that I wouldn't recommend to my worst enemy.
Aside from being extremely dated (published in 2001), the book is chock full of factual errors, and generalizations and unfounded opinions presented as authoritative fact. Anybody reading and taking it as gospel will have a distorted and skewed perspective on VPN technologies.
The only value at all I can see to this book is that it provides an interesting perspective on how things have changed since 2001, and how the author's ideas and assumptions about how things would look in the (then) future were wrong. But the outright errors make even that of dubious value.
By Bob