Novell Networking Bundle

by Laura A. Chappell, Peter Rybaczyk, Brad Dayley

Solve all of your networking problems with this 3-book bundle of Novell titles.

Authorized by Novell, Inc., Novell Press books are the premier source for information to the networking industry. The books are written by experts with the full participation of Novell's technical, managerial and marketing staff, and exhaustively reviewed by Novell's own technicians before publication for accuracy and applicability to courses and exams. All books are published in the basis of final released software, never on pre-released versions.

The Novell Networking Bundle includes Novell's Guide to LAN/WAN Analysis: IPX/SPX, Novell's Guide to Resolving Critical Server Issues and Novell's Internet Plumbing Handbook.

Novell's Guide to LAN/WAN Analysis: IPX/SPX is your key to networking happiness. You'll discover how protocol analyzers can identify network problems before they occur. Best-selling author Laura A. Chappell, a Protocol/Network Analyst for ImagiTech, begins with a comprehensive analysis of core network protocols and follows through with analytical techniques and tips for application testing and communications troubleshooting. The book comes with a free CD-ROM featuring an exclusive demo version of LANalyzer for Windows and multiple trace files.

In Novell's Guide to Resolving Critical Server Issues, Certified Novell engineers Brad Dayley and Rich Jensen apply their real-world experience to both common and complicated server issues. You'll learn how to rectify ABENDs, lockups, and high utilization. You'll also master the NetWare operating system, prevent server lockups, and reduce time spent debugging by deploying virtual debuggers.
Novell's Guide to Resolving Critical Server Issues also includes a companion CD-ROM with exclusive software and a two-hour video lecture by the authors.

Novell's Internet Plumbing Handbook is the encyclopedic guide to the Internet's infrastructure and architecture. Author Peter Rybaczyk uses detailed illustrations, tables, and maps of Internet backbones to explain esoteric subjects such as deploying access routers and optimizing router-to-router communications. Plus, Novell's Internet Plumbing Handbook covers routing support on UNIX®, NetWare®, and Windows NT® networks.

About the authors:

Laura A. Chappell is a former Product Manager and Educational/Technical Liaison for Novell, Inc. She is both a CNI and CNE. She is the author of Novell's Guide to NetWare LAN Analysis and co-author of Novell's Guide to Multiprotocol Internetworking.

Brad Dayley, CNE, is a software engineer on Novell's Critical Problem Resolution Team. He has more than 14 years' experience troubleshooting Novell products, and has resolved literally thousands of critical server issues. He is the co-creator of the advanced debugging course used to train Novell's support engineers.

Rich Jensen, CNE, is a software engineer on Novell's Critical Problem Resolution Team. He has more than 14 years' experience troubleshooting Novell products, and has resolved literally thousands of critical server issues. He is the co-creator of the advanced debugging course used to train Novell's support engineers.

Peter Rybaczyk earned his B.S. degree in physics from the University of Missouri in St. Louis and, as an undergraduate, received an National Science Foundation (NSF) research fellowship to study energy distributions in molecular collisions. In 1979, he started to work as a programmer, and later a network administrator and technical manager for a publishing house, Summit University Press. He first became involved with networks in 1986 and has designed and installed numerous local-area networks (LANs) and wide-area networks (WANs). Since 1990, he's been an internetworking consultant for his privately held firm PME Enterprises. His clients include law firms, car dealerships, retail and wholesale distributors, health-care providers, and Internet Service Providers (ISPs).

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About the author

Laura Chappell is the Founder of Protocol Analysis Institute, Inc., Wireshark University, and Chappell University, and the creator of the WCNA Certification.