FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide (With CD-ROM)

If you're looking for a tutorial that will guide you to install FreeBSD and recompile the kernel, you're looking in the wrong place. If you're an experienced network administrator/user who wants to take advantage of that knowledge with FreeBSD, you'll feel in heaven.The book is an excellent guide to set up a complete and highly reliable network server/workstation (web, ftp, mail, firewall etc.) compatible with many other OS. There are few books that accomplish the promise they make with the title, but this is an example of a very focused work on the field the author wants to cover.It's a good thing to support the FreeBSD project, but it's better when you get what you want for your bucks. However, you can get the "Handbook", "The Complete FreeBSD" book or "FreeBSD Unleashed" for a broader knowledge of FreeBSD, and when you feel at home with the OS, then get this book to fine tune your network services.

This book reperesents an excellent introduction to freeBSD for andministrator experienced in working with Windows NT/2000. All the major topics are covered in a very readable way and readers are invited to make a decision as to where freeBSD will fit into their architecture - Mittelstaedt just presents the facts. All in all, the book is worth 5 stars for two reasons. Fistly, it achieved what it set out to do and secondly, it converted a cynic like me to freeBSD. Eneough said!

Like the Unix System Administration Handbook, this book shares the author's extensive experience in the real world. So many computer books are merely rewrites of manuals touting the merits of software, but not this one.System administrators these days deal with networks of computers running various versions of Microsoft Windows as well as UNIX variants and even Macs, whether the system administrator is running a home network and using FreeBSD as a gateway or running a more complex network in an office. For anyone trying to put it all together, from testing the hardware to email and printing, this is an invaluable book.

Others have said it better then I can... you need to buy this book if you're running FreeBSD at all. It has been extremely helpful to me.

I was one of the reviewers of this book, and I am very happy to see how well this book turned out.I have often missed a book I could point people at when they ask "How to do ...". This one seems to fill that need nicely, well overflow it actually :-)Ted knows where his towel is, and if I should launch any complaint against his book it will be that sometimes he gets far and away from the title: "ISP's peering agreements" for instance. But Ted knows his facts so I am sure that a lot of people will learn a good deal more from his book than they bargained for.Throughout the book I have found lots of information which I am sure I could have located on the web somewhere but having it all here, in a single volume, puts it on my handbook/reference shelf, an honour it shares with only 17 other books.I don't mind there being ten times as many books about Linux, if only the FreeBSD books are this good.Poul-Henning Kamp, FreeBSD developer since 1992