• Cover
  • Copyright
  • Preface
    • Audience
    • Organization
    • Conventions Used in This Book
    • Comments and Questions
    • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1. Networking Objectives
    • 1.1 Business Requirements
    • 1.2 OSI Protocol Stack Model
    • 1.3 Routing Versus Bridging
    • 1.4 Top-Down Design Philosophy
  • Chapter 2. Elements of Reliability
    • 2.1 Defining Reliability
    • 2.2 Redundancy
    • 2.3 Failure Modes
  • Chapter 3. Design Types
    • 3.1 Basic Topologies
    • 3.2 Reliability Mechanisms
    • 3.3 VLANs
    • 3.4 Toward Larger Topologies
    • 3.5 Hierarchical Design
    • 3.6 Implementing Reliability
    • 3.7 Large-Scale LAN Topologies
  • Chapter 4. Local Area Network Technologies
    • 4.1 Selecting Appropriate LAN Technology
    • 4.2 Ethernet and Fast Ethernet
    • 4.3 Token Ring
    • 4.4 Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet
    • 4.5 ATM
    • 4.6 FDDI
    • 4.7 Wireless
    • 4.8 Firewalls and Gateways
    • 4.9 Structured Cabling
  • Chapter 5. IP
    • 5.1 IP-Addressing Basics
    • 5.2 IP-Address Classes
    • 5.3 ARP and ICMP
    • 5.4 Network Address Translation
    • 5.5 Multiple Subnet Broadcast
    • 5.6 General IP Design Strategies
    • 5.7 DNS and DHCP
  • Chapter 6. IP Dynamic Routing
    • 6.1 Static Routing
    • 6.2 Types of Dynamic Routing Protocols
    • 6.3 RIP
    • 6.4 IGRP and EIGRP
    • 6.5 OSPF
    • 6.6 BGP
  • Chapter 7. IPX
    • 7.1 Dynamic Routing
    • 7.2 General IPX Design Strategies
  • Chapter 8. Elements of Efficiency
    • 8.1 Using Equipment Features Effectively
    • 8.2 Hop Counts
    • 8.3 MTU Throughout the Network
    • 8.4 Bottlenecks and Congestion
    • 8.5 Filtering
    • 8.6 Quality of Service and Traffic Shaping
  • Chapter 9. Network Management
    • 9.1 Network-Management Components
    • 9.2 Designing a Manageable Network
    • 9.3 SNMP
    • 9.4 Management Problems
  • Chapter 10. Special Topics
    • 10.1 IP Multicast Networks
    • 10.2 IPv6
    • 10.3 Security
  • Appendix A. Appendix: Combining Probabilities
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  • Bibliography
    • Requests for Comments
    • Books and Articles
  • Colophon