I'm not so sure people buy books like that anymore, not at the volume they did 20 years ago. When was the last time you bought an O'Reilly? I used to buy severa

I'm not so sure people buy books like that anymore, not at the volume they did 20 years ago. When was the last time you bought an O'Reilly? I used to buy several of these a year, but can't remember the last time I even saw one. You're right that a new, easy to read guide is needed, but I think it would have to be just a website. The tools you need for Linux networking, mostly ip and tc, are as crude-but-powerful as they were 20 years ago, but now have much more functionality and complexity. Things are actively getting worse: a tool like brctl (bridge control) was obsoleted for the same functionality in iproute2 -- but brctl was much more intuitive to use. Some nicer frontends than iproute2 would really help here.