Cisco Access Lists Field Guide (McGraw-Hill Technical Expert Series) - Softcover

Held, Gilbert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0072123354 ISBN 13: 9780072123357

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2000

Synopsis

ONE-STOP GUIDE TO CONFIGURING CISCO ACCESS LISTS. Configuring access lists for Cisco Routers and for network operations is one of the most difficult tasks for network administrators working in a Cisco networking environment. Cisco- Access Lists Field Guide, by Gil Held and Kent Hundley, CCNA, makes this task far less of a headache. This comprehensive reference thoroughly explores basic, dynamic, time-based, reflexive, and context-based access lists, and the use of keywords. Following a consistent, reader-friendly format, each chapter covers the problem, offers a network illustration and access list, and a full explanation. This invaluable guide also describes potential pitfalls, and tells you how to avoid them. You also get hundreds of practical examples of access lists that can be tailored to your own environment.

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Product Description:

Cisco Access Lists Field Guide This is the network manager's easy to use guide for configuring access lists. It offers examples, describes potential pitfalls and how to avoid them, and explains access lists formats.

Review:

When configuring Cisco routers, you can take either of two approaches. If you're keen on expending a lot of time and energy, you can distil the contents of Cisco documentation into real-life access lists that make the routers do what your organisation needs. Alternatively, you can open up Cisco Access Lists Field Guide and see what solutions authors Gil Held and Kent Hundley have created for you. They've compiled a sort of recipe book, in which they present problems that access lists can solve, then provide a listing of an access list that solves the stated problem. Though it would be better if the solutions appeared on a CD-ROM or on the Internet somewhere, this book is nonetheless extraordinarily valuable to people involved in configuring Cisco routing equipment.

This book is more than a straightforward listing of problems and solutions. Held and Hundley make Cisco Access Lists Field Guide something of a tutorial via two mechanisms. First, a couple of introductory chapters explain the fundamentals of access lists, including how they fit into the larger router architecture and how they're maintained. Second, the authors present their listings in conjunction with lots of high-quality commentary. They'll state their problem in detail, then list the solution, then (most valuably) call attention to individual lines in the access list and explain what they're for. This material makes this book valuable to those technicians interested in learning for the long term, not just solving problems in the immediate context. --David Wall, amazon.com

Topics covered: Access lists for Cisco routers, organised by the functions they perform; Time-based access lists; dynamic access lists; reflexive access lists; context-based access control; address translation, and security functions (including those defined by IPSec).

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0072123354
• ISBN 13: 9780072123357
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286