Networking Self-Teaching Guide: OSI, TCP/IP, LANs, MANs, WANs, Implementation, Management, and Maintenance

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, Jim wants to thank Rich for being such a great co-author to work with. Rich and Jim had the opportunity to work together on a previous book and we make a great team. Jim is a bit of a pain in the neck,^[1] so Rich may have other opinions on this whole team thing.

We would also like to send out a huge word of thanks for all of the individuals involved in the development of this book. To Carol Long, thank you for bringing the idea to us and trusting us to see it through. We really enjoyed it as much as we all thought we would. We also want to send a word of thanks to the development editor, John Sleeva, for keeping us in line. It was a pleasure working with you, sir. To Angela Smith, thank you for all the assistance you gave us during the production phase. It is always nice to work with people who are as friendly and helpful as everyone we have had the pleasure of working with at Wiley. Additionally, thank you to Don Thorenson for being our technical guinea pig and to Lunaea Weatherstone for catching all of our mistakes. Finally, to all the people who work behind the scenes, thank you for your support of this project.

^[1] There are times when a bit of a pain in the neck is a good thing. Rich would like to thank Jim for his enduring good nature and understanding of the predicaments Rich finds himself involved with from time to time. We do make a good team because we have come to understand that although we work together each has his own methods when ...