The Illustrated Network

How TCP/IP Works in a Modern Network
Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-12-374541-5
Verlag: William Andrew Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 832 Seiten, Format (B × H): 191 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1610 g

In 1994, W. Richard Stevens and Addison-Wesley published a networking classic: TCP/IP Illustrated. The model for that book was a brilliant, unfettered approach to networking concepts that has proven itself over time to be popular with readers of beginning to intermediate networking knowledge. The Illustrated Network takes this time-honored approach and modernizes it by creating not only a much larger and more complicated network, but also by incorporating all the networking advancements that have taken place since the mid-1990s, which are many.

This book takes the popular Stevens approach and modernizes it, employing 2008 equipment, operating systems, and router vendors. It presents an ?illustrated? explanation of how TCP/IP works with consistent examples from a real, working network configuration that includes servers, routers, and workstations. Diagnostic traces allow the reader to follow the discussion with unprecedented clarity and precision. True to the title of the book, there are 330+ diagrams and screen shots, as well as topology diagrams and a unique repeating chapter opening diagram. Illustrations are also used as end-of-chapter questions. A complete and modern network was assembled to write this book, with all the material coming from real objects connected and running on the network, not assumptions. Presents a real world networking scenario the way the reader sees them in a device-agnostic world. Doesn't preach one platform or the other.

Here are ten key differences between the two:

Stevens Goralski's
Older operating systems (AIX,svr4,etc.) Newer OSs (XP, Linux, FreeBSD, etc.)
Two routers (Cisco, Telebit (obsolete)) Two routers (M-series, J-series)
Slow Ethernet and SLIP link Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and SONET/SDH links (modern)
Tcpdump for traces Newer, better utility to capture traces (Ethereal, now has
a new name!)
No IPSec IPSec
No multicast Multicast
No router security discussed Firewall routers detailed
No Web Full Web browser HTML consideration
No IPv6 IPv6 overview
Few configuration details More configuration details (ie, SSH, SSL, MPLS, ATM/FR consideration, wireless LANS, OSPF and BGP routing protocols

Zielgruppe

Network administrators, operators, engineers, architects and managers as well as other professionals from the technical community needing a networking overview, i.e., chip designers, telco engineers, software engineers CTOs, etc. Secondary market as student text in lower-level course offerings in computer networking, i.e., tech school and community college.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goralski, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Netzwerkprotokolle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Protocols and Layers2 TCP/IP Protocols and Devices3 Network Technologies4 IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing5 Resolution Protocol6 IPv4 and IPv6 Headers7 ICMP8 Routing9 Forwarding IP Packets10 User Datagram Protocol (UDP)11 TCP12 Multiplexing and Sockets13 Routing and Peering14 IGPs: RIP, OSPF, and IS-IS15 BGP16 Multicast17 IP Switching and Convergence18 DHCP19 DNS: The Domain Name System20 FTP21 SMTP and Email22 HTTP23 Securing Sockets with SSL24 SNMP25 SSH (Remote Access)26 MPLS-based VPNs27 NAT28 Firewalls29 IPSec30 Voice over IP

Über Autor(innen)

Goralski, Walter
Walter Goralski has worked in the telecommunications and networking industry all his professional life. He has worked with and programmed WANs, LANs, and inter-vendor communications systems. He has been a programmer, project manager, communications cabling specialist, consultant, course developer, technical trainer, and university professor at the graduate level. He joined Juniper Networks in 2000 after 8 years as a technical trainer and currently holds the title of Technical Lead in the Information and Learning Experience department. Goralski is the author of 15 books about networking technologies.