Linking Lans (McGraw-Hill Series on Computer Communications)

Link LANs Seamlessly-Without Tears. PROBLEM: To link networks so users have smooth, trouble-free access-even when you're faced with a hodgepodge of Token-Ring LANs, an SNA network and some faraway AppleTalk Macs. And the job has to be done fast! SOLUTION:Linking LANs, Second Edition, by Stan Schatt, shows you how to develop a winning strategy for building your company's enterprise network-then helps you design the actual components. You'll quickly determine when you can use cheap and easy local bridges to reliably connect two or three Ethernet LANs, and when you must invest extra money for more versatile routers and brouters. With scores of diagrams to illustrate real-world network configurations and internal network architectures, Linking LANs gives you hands-on solutions for interconnecting IBM, Apple, NetWare, UNIX and other major platforms. Also covers wireless networks, ISDN, WANs, SNMP, and more.