The new edition of Networking for System Administrators just went to copyedit, so I can forget about it for a few weeks.
The people who most deserve credit for this book are the folks who struggled through me learning networking as I stood between them and their goals. Every one of you brought me a horrible issue that educated me even as you ranted and cried and begged me to end your pain. I learn slowly. You suffered for it. Thank you. Fortunately suffering builds character, so you got something out of it and I don’t have to feel too bad.
This book had a crew of excellent technical reviewers. Some of them have an understanding of networking that crushes mine. Others knew nothing about networking, but were able to tell me when I confused them. Both are invaluable. Georg Kilzer, Alessandro Lenzen, John W. O’Brien, Jeff Root, Neil Roza, Grant Taylor, and Bryan D. Thomas loaned their expertise to making this book suck less and I am forever grateful. You all had excellent advice and recommendations. Taking all those recommendations would have made this book four times longer and utterly overwhelmed my target audience, but they were excellent.
No, wait, I can’t forget it. I must set up the Kickstarter. Turns out it’s not enough to write the book, I have to convince people to buy it too? Stupid bloody capitalism!