The second edition has been extended-length O'Reilly Linux Network Administrator Guide, by Olaf Kirch and Terry Dawson, still sports the cowboy colophon, suggesting that netadmins have retained their Lone Ranger personas. Meanwhile, life for a sysadmin has increased over the years with the introduction of utility / Configure. And build-less rpm distributions, network building and maintenance is still a vast prairie, the complexity is growing faster than the availability of tools and documentation to tame it. Linux document libraries are filled with distinct, obsolete, and / or redundant How-Tos for multiple Ethernet cards, bridging, cable modems, DHCP, Samba, ISDN, DSL, and laptop Ethernet card rarity. While the author Kirch and Dawson have expanded and updated the original text Kirch, they give little attention to one of the paradigm shift that occurred in Linux networking since 1993. Discussion of routing packets can not be explored, and there is no practical presentation of the routing configuration for dual Ethernet card, a small-network Linux market needs. When the author cheerfully in their preface to show the growing importance of this region, one of the gathering that the book was written in 1997 or earlier. However, in nearly 500 pages of earnest effort, Kirch and Dawson expand basic infrastructure such as TCP / IP, NIS, and DNS.