Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours

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ISBN-13: 978–0–768–68576–3
ISBN-10: 0–768–68576–1

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Black, Uyless D.

  Sams teach yourself networking in 24 hours / Uyless Black. — 4th ed.

       p. cm. — (Sams teach yourself in 24 hours)

  Previous ed.: Sams teach yourself networking in 24 hours / by Joe Habraken. 3rd ed. 2004.

  Includes index.

  ISBN 978–0–7686–8576–3 (pbk.)

 1. Computer networks. I. Habraken, Joseph W., 1954- Sams teach yourself networking in 24 hours. II. Title.

  TK5105.5.H385 2009

  004.6—dc22

                                                                2009013953

Printed in the United States of America

Second Printing July 2009

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