Cisco Routers for the Small Business: A Practical Guide for IT Professionals

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作者：Jason Neumann
出版日期：January 2, 2009
出版社：Apress
页数：230
ISBN：ISBN-10: 1430218517 ISBN-13: 978-1430218517
文件格式：PDF

Product Description
Cisco Routers for the Small Business provides in plain Englisha no–nonsense approach to setting up all the features of the Cisco IOSfor a small business using broadband technologies. This book explainshow to use a Cisco router to setup cable modems, DSL and PPPoE, andexplains how to configure NAT, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, DMZsand an IPSec VPN between two sites using advanced encryption. Thechapters are tutorial based and provide easy to follow, step–by–stepinstructions for all tasks that small businesses need to perform usinga router. Easy–to–implement example configurations are included in theappendices.

• Written for the small–business using common, broadband connections such as Cable internet and DSL.
• Provides easily–followed, step–by–step instructions for tasks thatsmall businesses need to perform, such as configuring virtual privatenetwork (VPN) connections, creating firewalls, securing the router, andmore.
• Contains appendixes with example configurations that are short, to the point, and dead–simple to implement.

What you’ll learn

• Securely configure Internet connections for your business using Cisco’s IOS command–language.
• Create virtual private networks (VPNs) that bring remote officesand employees onto your network, safely, via standard DSL and CableInternet connections.
• Set up network address translation (NAT) routing so that yourin–office computers are effectively invisible to outside intruders.
• Back up and recover your router configuration.
• Create “demilitarized zones” (DMZs) in support of servers that youwish to make accessible from outside your more secure, internal network.
• Protect your email server from attack using Cisco’s Email Inspection Engine.

Who is this book for?Cisco Routers for the Small Business is intended for Network Administrators, Power–users, and I.T. Professionals who support small business networks.
About the Author
Jason Neumann has been professionally involved in computer networkingfor over twenty years and has been working with Cisco routers for morethan ten of those years. Jason is the owner of LAN Technologies LLC, asmall networking company which provides Local and Wide Area Networksolutions and support to small businesses using high end operatingsystems including: The Cisco IOS, Microsoft, Linux, and BSD UNIX. Heholds many credentials from industry leaders including Cisco,Microsoft, Novell and others.