The Internet and Its Protocols, 1st Edition

Key Features

* Provides comprehensive, in-depth, and comparative coverage of the Internet Protocol (both IPv4 and IPv6) and its many related technologies.
* Written for developers, operators, and managers, and designed to be used as both an overview and a reference.
* Discusses major concepts in traffic engineering, providing detailed looks at MPLS and GMPLS and how they control both IP and non-IP traffic.
* Covers protocols for governing routing and transport, and for managing switches, components, and the network as a whole, along with higher-level application protocols.
* Offers thoughtful guidance on choosing between protocols, selecting features within a protocol, and other service- and performance-related decisions.

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.

Readership

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

The Internet and Its Protocols, 1st Edition

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