Cisco IOS Cookbook, 2nd Edition

Acknowledgments

Although this book has been significantly updated since the first edition, it was built on the bones of that earlier book, and so we need to start by repeating our gratitude to everybody who helped in the production of the first edition: John Karek, Jackman Chan, David Close, Jim Sumser, Mike Loukides, Phil Dangler, Jessamyn Read, Ellie Volckhausen, and our insightful technical reviewers Peter Rybaczyk, Ravi Malhotra, and Iljitsch van Beijnum.

For the second edition, we’d like to say thanks again to everybody at O’Reilly, particularly our editor, Mike Loukides, who must have seriously wondered how we were going to pull our rapidly slipping writing schedule out of the dirt. He took us at our rather cavalier word that we had it under control. A lesser editor would surely have run screaming. So thanks for believing our bravado.

We had only one technical reviewer for the second edition. Ravi Malhotra had the unenviable task of reading this enormous new book and pointing out the many rough spots. Thanks Ravi, and thanks also for your encouraging words. Although this is a second edition, it contains as much new material as many first editions, so we do know how much we asked you to do and with what time constraints, and we really appreciate it.

Kevin Dooley

I’d like to thank my ceaselessly supportive wife, Sherry Biscope. We dated while I wrote my first book. You agreed to marry me during the writing of the first edition of this book, and we’re still together as this massive ...