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THE INTERNET AND ITS PROTOCOLS
The Internet and Its ProtocolsA Comparative Approach
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By
Adrian Farrel, Founder of Old Dog Consulting, North Wales, UK

Included in series
The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking,

Description
The view presented in The Internet and Its Protocols is at once broad and deep. It covers all the common protocols and how they combine to create the Internet in its totality. More importantly, it describes each one completely, examining the requirements it addresses and the exact means by which it does its job. These descriptions include message flows, full message formats, and message exchanges for normal and error operation. They are supported by numerous diagrams and tables. This book's comparative approach gives you something more valuable: insight into the decisions you face as you build and maintain your network, network device, or network application. Author Adrian Farrel?s experience and advice will dramatically smooth your path as you work to offer improved performance and a wider range of services.

Audience
Networking professionals, i.e., applications programmers, hardware/software developers, systems testers, network managers and network operators

Contents


1 OVERVIEW OF ESSENTIALS
1.1 PHYSICAL CONNECTIVITY 1.2 PROTOCOLS AND ADDRESSING 1.3 THE OSI SEVEN LAYER MODEL 1.4 AN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE NETWORK 1.5 PACKAGING DATA 1.6 DATA LINK PROTOCOLS 1.7 THE PROTOCOLS AT A GLANCE 1.8 FURTHER READING

2 THE INTERNET PROTOCOL
2.1 CHOOSING TO USE IP 2.2 IPV4 2.3 IPV4 ADDRESSING 2.4 IP IN USE 2.5 IP OPTIONS AND ADVANCED FUNCTIONS 2.6 INTERNET CONTROL MESSAGE PROTOCOL (ICMP) 2.7 FURTHER READING

3 MULTICAST
3.1 CHOOSING UNICAST OR MULTICAST 3.2 MULTICAST ADDRESSING AND FORWARDING 3.3 INTERNET GROUP MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL (IGMP) 3.4FURTHER READING

4 IP VERSION SIX
4.1 IPV6 ADDRESSES 4.2 PACKET FORMATS 4.3 OPTIONS 4.4 CHOOSING BETWEEN IPV4 AND IPV6 4.5 FURTHER READING

5 ROUTING
5.1 ROUTING AND FORWARDING 5.2 DISTRIBUTING ROUTING INFORMATION 5.3 COMPUTING PATHS 5.4 ROUTING INFORMATION PROTOCOL (RIP) 5.5 OPEN SHORTEST PATH FIRST (OSPF) 5.6 IS-IS 5.7 CHOOSING BETWEEN IS-IS AND OSPF 5.8 BORDER GATEWAY PROTOCOL 4 (BGP-4) 5.9 MULTICAST ROUTING 5.10 OTHER ROUTING PROTOCOLS 5.11 FURTHER READING

6 IP SERVICE MANAGEMENT
6.1 CHOOSING HOW TO MANAGE SERVICES 6.2 DIFFERENTIATED SERVICES 6.3 INTEGRATED SERVICES 6.4 RESERVING RESOURCES USING RSVP 6.5 FURTHER READING

7 TRANSPORT OVER IP
7.1 WHAT IS A TRANSPORT PROTOCOL? 7.2 USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL (UDP) 7.3 TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP) 7.4 STREAM CONTROL TRANSMISSION PROTOCOL (SCTP) 7.5 THE REAL-TIME TRANSPORT PROTOCOL (RTP) 7.6 FURTHER READING

8 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING
8.1 WHAT IS IP TRAFFIC ENGINEERING? 8.2 EQUAL COST MULTIPATH 8.3 MODIFYING PATH COSTS 8.4 ROUTING IP FLOWS 8.5 SERVICE BASED ROUTING 8.6 CHOOSING OFFLINE OR DYNAMIC TRAFFIC ENGINEERING 8.7 DISCOVERING NETWORK UTILIZATION 8.8 ROUTING EXTENSIONS FOR TRAFFIC ENGINEERING 8.9 CHOOSING TO USE TRAFFIC ENGINEERING 8.10 FURTHER READING

9 MULTIPROTOCOL LABEL SWITCHING
9.1 LABEL SWITCHING 9.2 MPLS FUNDAMENTALS 9.3 SIGNALING PROTOCOLS 9.4 LABEL DISTRIBUTION PROTOCOL (LDP) 9.5 TRAFFIC ENGINEERING IN MPLS 9.6 CR-LDP 9.7 RSVP-TE 9.8 CHOOSING BETWEEN CR-LDP AND RSVP-TE 9.9 PRIORITIZING TRAFFIC IN MPLS 9.10 BGP-4 AND MPLS 9.11 FURTHER READING

10 GENERALIZED MPLS (GMPLS)
10.1 A HIERARCHY OF MEDIA 10.2 GENERIC SIGNALING EXTENSIONS FOR GMPLS 10.3 CHOOSING RSVP-TE OR CR-LDP IN GMPLS 10.4 GENERALIZED RSVP-TE 10.5 GENERALIZED CR-LDP 10.6 HIERARCHIES AND BUNDLES 10.7 OSPF AND IS-IS IN GMPLS 10.8 OPTICAL VPNS 10.9LINK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL 10.10 FURTHER READING

11 SWITCHES AND COMPONENTS
11.1 GENERAL SWITCH MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL 11.2 SEPARATING IP CONTROL AND FORWARDING 11.3 LMP-WDM 11.4 FURTHER READING

12 APPLICATION PROTOCOLS
12.1 WHAT IS AN APPLICATION? 12.2 CHOOSING A TRANSPORT 12.3 DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM 12.4 TELNET 12.5 FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL 12.6 HYPER-TEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL 12.7 CHOOSING AN APPLICATION PROTOCOL 12.8 FURTHER READING

13 NETWORK MANAGEMENT
13.1 CHOOSING TO MANAGE YOUR NETWORK 13.2 CHOOSING A CONFIGURATION METHOD 13.3 THE MANAGEMENT INFORMATION BASE (MIB) 13.4 THE SIMPLE NETWORK MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL 13.5 EXTENSIBLE MARKUP LANGUAGE 13.6 COMMON OBJECT REQUEST BROKER ARCHITECTURE 13.7 CHOOSING A CONFIGURATION PROTOCOL 13.8 CHOOSING TO COLLECT STATISTICS 13.9 COMMON OPEN POLICY SERVICE PROTOCOL 13.10 FURTHER READING

14 CONCEPTS IN IP SECURITY
14.1 THE NEED FOR SECURITY 14.2 CHOOSING WHERE TO APPLY SECURITY 14.3 COMPONENTS OF SECURITY MODELS 14.5 TRANSPORT LAYER SECURITY 14.6 SECURING THE HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL 14.7 HASHING AND ENCRYPTION: ALGORITHMS AND KEYS 14.8 EXCHANGING KEYS 14.8.1 Internet Key Exchange 14.9 FURTHER READING

15 ADVANCED APPLICATIONS
15.1 IP ENCAPSULATION 15.2 VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS (VPN) 15.3 MOBILE IP 15.4 HEADER COMPRESSION 15.5 VOICE OVER IP 15.6 IP TELEPHONY 15.7 IP AND ATM 15.8 IP OVER DIAL-UP LINKS 15.9 FURTHER READING

CONCLUDING REMARKS


Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 840 pages, publication date: APR-2004
ISBN-13: 978-1-55860-913-6
ISBN-10: 1-55860-913-X
Imprint: MORGAN KAUFFMAN
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USD 57.95
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