Acknowledgments

There are many people that I owe thanks to, for enabling me to get where I am today. Trace and Bob were the first people to allow me to go as far as I could within their organization, and their contacts led me to much bigger and better opportunities. I thank Rick Gardner for my first taste of a big infrastructure, where I was bitten by the Cisco bug.

I must owe my greatest professional gratitude to Vick Tagawa, for taking a chance on someone who was good technically but inexperienced as an instructor, and later Ted Hernandez, for taking the teaching techie and making a professional presenter. Dian Schaffhauser has been both a friend and a mentor, introducing me to the writing trade. You three have given me skills that, unlike technical ability, will not fade.

Most recently, I thank the "71st Specialist class," for putting up with my occasional ramblings as well as sometimes an inability to socialize because "I must get a chapter done." You are an amazingly talented group of people. Although there isn't a single one of you that I wouldn't gladly serve with, let's make it at a modern tropical place. I'd like to specifically ask Dan Cook to come out of the village and join us there.

Eric Quinn

I thank David Waldron for his work in the async and WAN connection chapters, helping me build my CCIE lab and getting Cavlon Consulting up and running. Brian Quinn and Linda Frampton, thanks for helping put me on this path so many years ago, building up the consulting and training team, and of course being my friends. "It's all about networking."

A thank you goes out to all my editors at Que Publishing, for their patience, flexible deadlines, and understanding.

Fred Glauser