Acknowledgments

I am indebted to many people for their assistance and support throughout the process of writing this book. Those people include:

David Kurtiak, Alex Kamantauskus, Marc Gallo, and Martin Walshaw for investing their time and expertise as technical editors to make this book the best it can be.

John Kane, Tammi Ross, Grant Munroe, and all the folks at Cisco Press for having enough faith in me (or is that the book?) to agree to its production, and for tolerating the excruciating delays caused by world and business events.

Jeff Harrington for allowing me the use of his technical library and reference materials.