Routing and Switching: Time of Convergence?Addison-Wesley, 2002 - 984 pages This book, Routing and Switching: Time of Convergence?, aims to help users, network designers and technicians, and IT decision makers, in their proper understanding of the interconnecting possibilities of today and potential for tomorrow (which may come more quickly than we might have thought yesterday). The book provides a detailed explanation of all related principles, starting from an overview of communication networks, through the operation of Layer 2 internetworking devices bridges and switches, the latter both in LANs and WANs to the operation of Layer 3 devices routers. This book devotes more time to more complex routing technologies and their application in IP and non-IP environments, such as (still present) Novell IPX/SPX, AppleTalk, (very slowly penetrating) OSI, (almost forgotten but not completely) DecNet, Banyan VINES, and (where it all started) XNS. |
Contents
Communications networks | 1 |
Local and metropolitan area networking | 17 |
Wide area networking | 55 |
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Common terms and phrases
advertised algorithm allows applications architecture assigned backbone bandwidth bits bridge broadcast called cell communication complete configuration connection datagram default defined delay designed destination determine devices distribution domain Ethernet example exchange field Figure flow forwarding frame functions header host identifier IEEE implemented interface Internet IP address label layer Level limited mechanism metric MPLS multicast multiple neighbors node octets operation optical OSPF packet particular path performance physical port prefix Proposed Standard provides received Relay request reservation router routing information routing protocols routing table running segment sent server single specific Standard station subnet switch Token Ring topology traffic transmission transport tree tunnel types updates users virtual VLAN