Cisco® ISP Essentials

Acknowledgments

This book started life as a small whitepaper called “IOS Essentials,” an attempt to document the various configuration and operational best practices which ISPs were using on their Cisco networking equipment. This whitepaper has, over the last few years, grown through several versions into this book, Cisco ISP Essentials.

We would like to thank the numerous friends and colleagues in the industry who have contributed to both the whitepaper and this book. Many have contributed their own text, made numerous suggestions, contributions, and clarifications, and also have provided their own deep real world operational experience with the Internet. Their willingness to help others do the right thing is one of the reasons for the Internet’s ...