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Building Linux Virtual Private Networks
Author(s): Oleg Kolesnikov
Publisher: New Riders Publishing
Date Published:
Format: Paperback 408 pages
List Price: $44.99
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Description: A virtual private network (VPN) enables computers to access remote resources--like the mail store on another office's mail server--from a geographically remote location. Rather than access the files over a private (and expensive) wide area network (WAN) link, however, a VPN makes its data transmissions across the open Internet. The magic is in making the communications secure, a critical job that requires a tunneling protocol that implements encryption. Building Linux Virtual Private Networks shows you how to set up VPNs without spending a lot of money, and without compromising ease of use or security. Oleg Kolesnikov and Brian Hatch emphasize network-to-network connectivity--fixed links between sites--rather than network-to-client connections. They show you how to use Linux to build a secure system of permanent--yet virtual--data links. There's coverage, for example, of the PoPToP daemon for handling Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), but there's no coverage of non-Linux clients with which to connect it.

The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems (Networking Series)
Author(s): Thomas Herbert
Publisher: Charles River Media
Date Published: May 2004
Format: Paperback: 300 pages
List Price: $49.95
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Description: The Linux TCP/IP Stack: Networking for Embedded Systems provides a detailed guide to implementing and using the Linux TCP/IP stack in embedded systems projects. It begins with a general overview of TCP/IP networking, with background information on applicable networking standards. After the basics are covered, the book takes programmers on a detailed tour of TCP/IP implementation in Linux and TCP/IP sources by following a packet of data as it flows through the stack from the sending system, out the wire, and back through the input side of the stack in the receiving machine. Throughout the text, specific real-time requirements, network management, and memory constraints are covered in detail. This is a great resource for embedded systems programmers and engineers, as well as networking professionals interested in learning more about the implementation of Linux TCP/IP.

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