IP Fundamentals: What Everyone Needs to Know About Addressing and Routing - Softcover

Maufer, Thomas Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0139754830 ISBN 13: 9780139754838

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1999

Synopsis

Finally, there's a non-theoretical, practical primer on all the basics of IP networking -- perfect for Web professionals, LAN managers, MIS managers, application developers, network administrators, and ISPs. This hands-on guide teaches all the fundamentals of IP addressing, routing, and troubleshooting -- with real-world exercises and examples throughout. The book contains broad coverage of the IP protocol itself; how IP operates over Ethernet, Token Ring, ATM, FDDI, and Frame Relay; the interplay between addressing and routing; OSPF; BGP-4 and its implications for edge customers; routing protocol interactions; techniques for minimizing and simplifying import/export; and more.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas A. Maufer is an engineer at 3Com in Santa Clara, CA, and active in the Internet Engineering Task Force. He was previously a senior network engineer at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Maufer is author of Deploying IP Multicast in the Enterprise (Prentice Hall PTR).

From the Back Cover

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Finally, there's a practical primer on all the basics of IP networking -- ideal for Web professionals, LAN managers, MIS managers, application developers, network administrators, and ISPs. Author Thomas Maufer, formerly a senior network engineer at NASA and participant in Internet standards development, teaches all the fundamentals of IP addressing and routing with unprecedented clarity. This hands-on, authoritative guide is full of real-world examples and exercises designed to make sure you gain a rock-solid understanding of IP -- today's "gold standard" of networking.

• IP: What it is, why it was developed, how it works
• Internet addressing: address classes, routing tables, subnet masks/VLSM, CIDR, and the challenge of scalability
• Routing domains and routing protocols, including OSPF, RIP, and BGP-4
• DNS and DHCP
• Emerging multimedia and "converged" IP applications -- and techniques for ensuring quality of service

You'll discover how IP operates over Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, PPP, and Frame Relay; how IP addressing and routing interrelate; the implications of BGP-4 for edge customers; and how to manage routing protocol interactions for maximum simplicity. You'll find detailed information about IP resources and software; learn the basics of IP troubleshooting; and much more. If you really need to master IP, and want to master it now, one book fits the bill perfectly: IP Fundamentals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0139754830
• ISBN 13: 9780139754838
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512