About the Author

Joseph Davies is a technical writer for the Microsoft Corporation. He has been a writer and instructor of TCP/IP, networking, and security topics since 1992. He started writing as a courseware developer for Microsoft Corporate Support group and then moved into the Windows group to write product help and resource kit content on networking and security technologies. Since 2001, he has been writing white papers, TechNet articles, Web sites, and Microsoft Press books for the Windows networking technology teams. He is the author of TechNet’s monthly The Cable Guy column (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/community/ columns/cableguy/default.mspx), now appearing in TechNet Magazine.

Joseph is co-author of Windows Server 2008 Networking and Network Access Protection (NAP) (2008), Deploying Virtual

Private Networks with Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (2004), Microsoft Windows Server 2003 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference (2003), and Microsoft Windows 2000 TCP/IP Protocols and Services Technical Reference (2000), all from Microsoft Press. He is author of

Understanding IPv6, Second Edition (Microsoft Press, 2008), Windows Server 2008 TCP/IP Protocols and Services (Microsoft Press, 2008), TCP/IP Fundamentals for Microsoft Windows (TechNet, 2006), Deploying Secure 802.11 Wireless Networks with Microsoft Windows (Microsoft Press, 2004), and Understanding IPv6 (Microsoft Press, 2003), which won the Puget Sound Society for Technical Communication (STC) Best of Show and International STC Distinguished Awards.

System Requirements

To use this book’s companion CD-ROM, you need a computer equipped with the following minimum configuration:

■Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003, or Windows XP

■1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

■1 GB of system memory

■A hard disk partition with at least 1 GB of available space

■Support for DirectX 9 graphics and 32 MB of graphics memory

■Appropriate video monitor

■Keyboard

■Mouse or other pointing device

■CD-ROM drive

To view the online version of this book, you will need the Adobe Systems, Inc. Reader. See http://www.adobe.com for information about disk space requirements for the Adobe Reader.

To install Microsoft Network Monitor 3.1 from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=92844 or a link on the companion CD-ROM, you need the following additional minimum configuration:

■ A hard disk partition with approximately 25 MB of free disk space

To install the Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ ?LinkID=59771 you need the following additional minimum configuration:

■ A hard disk partition with approximately 4 MB of free disk space