Just what I thought it would be

I give this 5 stars not because I think its the best book available on the subject but because I got exactly what I expected and found no issues with it.

The book is part tutorial and mostly configurations. If you are looking to implement a firewall and would like a walk-through for different services then this is your book. At the beginning of each chapter, the author discusses the topics in generalities and then each specific service you are configuring is discussed in short detail followed by the setup of the firewall rules.

The author starts with a simple firewall and builds upon that model throughout the book so you can get as simple as you like to as complicated as the book gets. It's not really targeted towards a business firewall but I found that it probably has enough information in it to help configure a small to small-medium business firewall.

What this book isn't is an in depth discussion of firewalls or specific strategies. He talks about different approaches to doing things but it is by no means the point of the book.

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