One to five asterisks in front of the some of the books represent our subjective view of their goodness. The titles without asterisks have not been rated. The books are arranged in the reverse order of year of publication.

Recommended:

• [*****] Ruixi Yuan, W. Timothy Strayer, " Virtual Private Networks: Technologies and Solutions," Addison-Wesley, April 2001, 336 pages.
• [*****] Jim Guichard, Ivan Pepelnjak, " MPLS and VPN Architectures: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Designing and Deploying MPLS and MPLS-Enabled VPNs," Cisco Press, October 2000, 420 pages.
• [*****] Thaddeus Fortenberry, " Windows 2000 Virtual Private Networking," New Riders Publishing, January 2000, 362 pages.
• [*****] Richard Shea, " L2TP: Implementation and Operation," Addison-Wesley, September 1999, 304 pages.
• [*****] Dave Kosiur, David Kosiur, " Building & Managing Virtual Private Networks," Wiley, October 1998, 395 pages.
• [****] Catherine Paquet, Cisco Systems Inc., " Building Cisco Remote Access Networks," Cisco Press, August 1999, 500 pages.

• Steven Brown, " Implement Virtual Private Networks," McGraw-Hill, May 1999, 594 pages.
• David Iseminger, " Inside Rras : Remote Access Solutions for Windows Nt," Wiley, July 1998, 352 pages.
• Peter Tomsu, Gerhard Wieser, " MPLS-Based VPNs Designing Advanced Virtual Networks," Prentice Hall, December 2001, 300 pages.
• Carlton Davis, " IPSec: Securing VPNs," McGraw-Hill, April 2001, 432 pages.
• Adam Quiggle, " Implementing Cisco VPNs," McGraw-Hill, February 2001, 601 pages.
• TechRepublic, " Administrator's Guide to VPN and Remote Access," TechRepublic, February 2001, 154 pages.
• Harith Kariapper, " CCNP Building CISCO Remote Access Networks Exam Guide," Que, February 2001, 600 pages.
• Neall Alcott, " DHCP for Windows 2000," O'Reilly & Associates, January 2001, 400 pages.
• Bill Dutcher, " The NAT Handbook: Implementing and Managing Network Address Translation," Wiley, January 2001, 322 pages.

• James S. Tiller, Jim S. Tiller, " A Technical Guide to Ipsec Virtual Private Networks," Auerbach Publications, December 2000, 344 pages.
• Mark S. Merkow, " Virtual Private Networks for Dummies," Hungry Minds, Inc, November 2000, 336 pages.
• Howard C. Berkowitz, " WAN Survival Guide: Strategies for VPNs and Multiservice Networks," Wiley, November 2000, 437 pages.
• Michael Busby, " Demystifying Virtual Private Networks," Wordware Publishing, November 2000, 250 pages.
• David E. McDysan, " VPN Applications Guide: Real Solutions for Enterprise Networks," Wiley, May 2000, 332 pages.
• Mark Norris, Steve Pretty, " Designing the Total Area Network: Intranets, VPNs and Enterprise Networks Explained," Wiley, February 2000, 348 pages.
• Bruce Perlmutter, Jonathan L. Zarkower, " Virtual Private Networking: A View From the Trenches," Prentice Hall, January 2000, 268 pages.

• Casey Wilson, Peter Doak, " Creating and Implementing Virtual Private Networks: The All-encompassing Resource for Implementing VPNs," The Coriolis Group, November 1999, 576 pages.
• David Leon Clark, " IT Manager's Guide to Virtual Private Networks," McGraw-Hill, August 1999, 450 pages.
• Walter Goralski, David Waclawski, " Virtual Private Networks : Achieving Secure Internet Commerce and Enterprisewide Communications," Computer Technology Research Corporation, April 1999.
• Martin W. Murhammer, et al, " Guide to Virtual Private Networks," Prentice Hall, February 1999, 174 pages.
• Randall Jorde Covill, " Implementing Extranets: the Internet as A Virtual Private Network," Digital Press, September 1998, 204 pages.
• Deborah L. Bayles, " Extranets : Building the Business-To-Business Web," Prentice Hall, January 1998, 300 pages.