Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators

Save a fortune: Use Linux to deliver cost-effective, reliable routing services.

Linux routers are inexpensive, flexible, stable, adaptable, expandable, easy to manage, and based on proven technology. In Linux Routers, Second Edition, Tony Mancill shows you exactly how to configure, administer, and troubleshoot Linux routing for today's most common internetworking applications. Thoroughly updated for the latest technologies and version 2.4 of the Linux kernel, this edition includes practical coverage of dynamic routing, Quality of Service (QoS)—even next-generation IPv6 routing. Mancill's step-by-step explanations walk you through:

• Choosing the right Linux software distribution and hardware platform
• Building Ethernet LAN routers, including coverage of the Linux Router Project (LRP)
• Implementing Internet, extranet, and Frame Relay routing
• Creating VPN tunneling routers with iproute2 and FreeS/WAN
• Providing remote access to satellite offices while conserving bandwidth
• Using Linux IP firewalling features to improve network security
• Providing routing services alongside Web and DNS services on a single platform
• Monitoring Linux routers and maximizing availability in production environments

Whether your goal is to reduce network costs, add applications, solve problems you can't solve with "traditional" routers, or simply learn about routing hands-on without investing expensive, proprietary network gear, Linux Routers, Second Edition is all you need to get the job done.

Linux Routers, Second Edition shows you exactly how to reduce your costs and extend your network with Linux-based routing. You'll find step-by-step coverage of software/hardware selection, configuration, management, and troubleshooting for today's key internetworking applications, including LANs, Internet/intranet/extranet routers, Frame Relay, VPNs, remote access, and firewalls. Extensive new coverage includes dynamic routing, Quality of Service, the current Linux kernel - even next-generation IPv6 routing.

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Explains how to set up and manage Linux routers based on the author's experience in production environments. Separate chapters describe LAN, extranet, WAN, internet, satellite office, and internet services routers. The second edition adds a chapter on the cesium and xenon tunneling routers, and sections on packet sniffers and netfilter code. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

TONY MANCILL works for Vesta, a stored-value services company in Portland, Oregon. He has worked in several large IT shops as a UNIX systems administrator and systems programmer, including Bank of America and BellSouth, and he has been running Linux in production corporate environments since 1996. Mancill is also active in the Free Software community as a volunteer developer for the Debian project (http://www.debian.org/). He is a graduate of Georgia Tech with a degree in Electrical Engineering.