802.11 WLAN Hands-On Analysis: Unleashing the Network Monitor for Troubleshooting and Optimization
I’ve consulted and lectured in more than a dozen countries and I’ve developed a sense of how hard-headed, technical pragmatists prefer to learn. Technology blunders forward in an odd, erratic gait and we follow frantically grasping at odds-and-ends in never ending pursuit. Most support professionals are fire fighters, focused on extinguishing daily production blazes, leaving little time, energy and enthusiasm to gird one’s loins and tackle the new stuff.   The best case learning scenario is that you and I hang out for a long weekend in a well appointed WLAN lab stocked with a variety of access points, client stations, a rack of Cisco routers, VLAN switches, RADIUS and certificate servers and a multi-tree Server 2003 forest.   The worst case learning scenario is that you purchase one of the dozens of painfully mediocre WLAN trade books that drone on like bad 70s disco music in bleak, unimaginative two-tone. Ripped verbatim from IEEE 802.11 white papers with little interpretation or enhancement, they have the nutritional equivalent of fast food.   You should demand more. I respect your time, attention and effort. Every detail of this book has been carefully crafted. I’ve sifted through dozens of reference manuals, white papers and technical presentations; done hundreds of network captures and analyzed WLAN packets in variety of production environments