October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
1648 pages
47h 34m
English
Each host that is placed on a network or internetwork must be set up and configured before it can be used. Configuration ensures that the host functions properly and that it is told the parameters needed for it to successfully communicate with other hosts and devices. In the good old days, administrators would manually set up each host as it was added to the network, and they would also manually make changes to the configuration as required.
Modern networks, however, are very large, and manual configuration of hosts is a time-consuming chore. Furthermore, we often need features that only automated configuration can ...
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