Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Cisco IOS in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Introduction
Chapter 1 Introduction to Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS)
Chapter 2 Cisco WAAS Architecture, Hardware, and Sizing
Chapter 3 Planning, Discovery, and Analysis
Chapter 4 Network Integration and Interception
Chapter 5 Branch Office Network Integration
Chapter 6 Data Center Network Integration
Chapter 7 System and Device Management
Chapter 8 Configuring WAN Optimization
Chapter 9 Configuring Application Acceleration
Chapter 10 Branch Office Virtualization
Chapter 11 Case Studies
Appendix A WAAS Quickstart Guide
Appendix B Troubleshooting Guide
Appendix C 4.0/4.1 CLI Mapping

This book consists primarily of two parts. The first could be considered a tutorial, but that doesn't quite capture its purpose. I try to teach the basic principles behind configuring the router, but there are many other sources for that information (for example, Scott Ballew's Managing IP Networks with Cisco Routers, or Kevin Dooley and Ian J. Brown's Cisco Cookbook, both from O'Reilly). This part of the book quickly breezes through as many examples of different configuration tasks as possible. I provide explanations, but the focus is on the examples. By studying them, you'll see how to accomplish many of the tasks involved in setting up a router.

The bulk of the book is the quick reference. There's nothing fancy hereit's organized alphabetically and shows the commands that I felt were most useful to someone using a Cisco router in an IP environment.