Network Analysis and Troubleshooting

Haugdahl's company provides resources for network analysis. Here he offers protocol information and troubleshooting strategies to help administrators keep networks running at peak performance. He has a bottom-up methodology that examines in detail each network layer physical, data link, network, transport, session, presentation, and application to reveal problems and solutions specific to each layer. The CD-ROM contains Internet standards documents, selected shareware and freeware, a dictionary, and other tools. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

J. Scott Haugdahl is the founder of Net3 Group, Inc. (www.net3group.com), a company focused on resources for network analysis, including a Web site, value-added software for users of protocol analyzers, analysis training, and on-site troubleshooting. Mr. Haugdahl's eighteen years of computer networking experience includes troubleshooting networks for numerous Fortune 1000 and government organizations. He has written articles for industry trade publications, including the popular "On The Wire" column, which he coauthored with analysis, insight, and humor for over three years in Network Computing Magazine. Early in his career he developed a popular DOS-based protocol analyzer. Mr. Haugdahl holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology.

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