802.11 Wireless Networks
The Definitive Guide - Creating and Administering Wireless Networks
Résumé
As a network administrator, architect, or security professional, you need to understand the capabilities, limitations, and risks associated with integrating wireless LAN technology into your current infrastructure. 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide provides all the information necessary to analyze and deploy wireless networks with confidence.
Over the past five years, the world has become increasingly mobile. Traditional ways of networking have altered to accommodate new lifestyles and ways of working. Wireless networks offer several advantages over fixed (or “wired”) networks, with mobility, flexibility, ease and speed of deployment, and low-cost at the top of the list. Large productivity gains are possible when developers, students, and professionals are able to access data on the move. Ad-hoc meetings in the lunch room, library, or across the street in the café allow you to develop ideas collaboratively and act on them right away. Wireless networks are typically very flexible, which can translate into rapid deployment. Once the infrastructure is in place, adding new users is just a matter of authorization.
After a general introduction to wireless networks, this practical book moves quickly into the gory details of the 802.11 standard. If you ever need to debug a wireless network that isn't working properly, you'd better understand this material. 802.11 MAC (Media Access Control), detailed 802.11 framing, WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy protocol), 802.1x, management operations, and the PCF (point coordination function) are all covered in detail. Author Matthew Gast also supplies impressive detail on the physical layers.
As for getting a wireless network up and running.,. Gast offers clear, no-nonsense guide for using 802.11 on Windows and Linux, using and selecting access points, making deployment considerations, and seeing to 802.11 network monitoring and performance tuning. In the final section of the book, he summarizes the standardization work pending in the 802.11 working group.
If you're looking for one book that provides a full spectrum view of 802.11, from the minute details of the specification, to deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting, 802.11 Wireless Networks: The Definitive Guide is worth its weight in gold.
Contents
- 1. Introduction to Wireless Networks
- 2. Overview of 802.11 Networks
- 3. The 802.11 MAC
- 4. 802.11 Framing in Detail
- 5. Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
- 6. Security, Take 2: 802.1x
- 7. Management Operations
- 8. Contention-Free Service with the PCF
- 9. Physical Layer Overview
- 10. The ISM PHYs: FH, DS, and HR/DS
- 11. 802.11a: 5-GHz OFDM PHY
- 12. Using 802.11 on Windows
- 13. Using 802.11 on Linux
- 14. Using 802.11 Access Points
- 15. 802.11 Network Deployment
- 16. 802.11 Network Analysis
- 17. 802.11 Performance Tuning
- 18. The Future, at Least for 802.11
- A. 802.11 MIB
- B. 802.11 on the Macintosh
L'avis du libraire Eyrolles
Are you looking for one book that provides a full spectrum view of 802.11 and wireless networks ? From the minute details of the specification, to deployment, monitoring, and troubleshooting, this guide has to be yours !
L'auteur - Matthew Gast
Matthew Gast was born on the Great Plains of the Midwest, near Chicago. Living on the Great Plains, he could almost see all the way to Iowa, where he later attended Grinnell College. In college, he started two significant long term relationships. The first is with the fiercely independent Alison Burek, a musician, painter, and Renaissance woman. To the great joy of their two cats, they were married shortly after graduation.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | O'Reilly |
| Auteur(s) | Matthew Gast |
| Parution | 23/05/2002 |
| Nb. de pages | 444 |
| Format | 18 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 751g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780596001834 |
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