Writing this book was a huge project, and we are grateful that so many people helped us in different ways. We want to extend particularly large thanks to John Karek for helping to set up the lab environment that we used to testing recipes; Jackman Chan, who ran some of the more obscure and difficult debugging traces for us; and to David Close of Cisco Canada, who very generously loaned us equipment at a critical phase.
Everybody at O'Reilly was great to work with. We particularly appreciate the hard work of our editors, Jim Sumser, Mike Loukides, and Phil Dangler. They encouraged us as we wrote. And, when we were done writing, they wrestled the results into something we all could be proud of. Jessamyn Read did a great job with the figures, and we were completely thrilled with Ellie Volckhausen's cover art.
We had three technical reviewers for this book, and they each made a huge contribution by both pointing out our errors and making useful suggestions on how to present the material. Peter Rybaczyk and Ravi Malhotra both showed incredible breadth and depth of knowledge of Cisco routers and networking in general, as well as offering help with the overall structure and flow of the book. And we leaned very heavily on Iljitsch van Beijnum for help with the BGP chapter.
There is a lot more to writing a book than just the writing. I would like to thank Sherry Biscope, who has now survived my writing two books. And, midway through this one, she almost crazily agreed to marry me. But she did far more than merely survive. She encouraged and prodded, she made time and space for this book, and she barely complained at all when piles of books, papers, routers, and cables took over the living room. And thanks also to Ginger the beagle who slept in the big comfy chair throughout the writing of this book, always within petting distance, usually very forgiving of the delays in walks and dinner time.
I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Lisa, who supported me unconditionally throughout this project, and in doing so, became the sole caregiver to our young children. Without your assistance and encouragement, this book would never have happened. Special thanks also to my son, Ethan, and daughter, Darby, who endured many evenings without a father. You mean the world to me and I will love you always and forever. I would also like to thank Alan Morewood, who inspired more than one section of this book.
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