Designing Large Scale LANs
Help for Network Designers
Published on 25. December 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-596-00150-6 (ISBN)
Description
This text offers a vendor-neutral approach for designing large local area networks according to business or organizational needs, rather than from a product perspective. Kevin Dooley outlines "top-down network design" for building a technological infrastructure to fit your organization's requirements. Dooley argues that the design of a network is largely independent of the products used. Whether you use a Cisco or Juniper router, the same security issues and protocols apply. The questions he addresses in this book are need-specif ic: Do I use a router or a switch? Should I route between switched areas or switch between routed areas? The book covers topics from from security, bandwidth and scalability to network reliability, which includes backup, redundancy, and points of failure. Specific technologies are analyzed in detail: network topologies, routing and switching strategies, wireless, virtual LANs, firewalls and gateways, security, Internet protocols, bandwidth, and multicast services. The book also discusses proprietary technologies that are ubiquitous, such as Cisco's IOS and Novell's IPX.
Reviews / Votes
"A very readable text with good illustration, I would recommend this book to general networking practitioners and those with growing networks of their own who want to be aware of the benefits of good design." - Raza Rizvi, News@UKUUG, October 2002More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Sebastopol
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 177 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
641 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-596-00150-6 (9780596001506)
Schweitzer Classification
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Kevin Dooley
Designing Large Scale Lans
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11/2001
1st Edition
O'Reilly
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11/2001
1st Edition
O'Reilly
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Person
Kevin Dooley is an independent networking consultant who has been designing and implementing networks for almost 10 years. In that time he has built large scale Local and Wide Area Networks for several of Canada's largest companies. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Toronto.
Content
Preface 1. Networking Objectives Business Requirements OSI Protocol Stack Model Routing Versus Bridging Top-Down Design Philosophy 2. Elements of Reliability Defining Reliability Redundancy Failure Modes 3. Design Types Basic Topologies Reliability Mechanisms VLANs Toward Larger Topologies Hierarchical Design Implementing Reliability Large-Scale LAN Topologies 4. Local Area Network Technologies Selecting Appropriate LAN Technology Ethernet and Fast Ethernet Token Ring Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet ATM FDDI Wireless Firewalls and Gateways Structured Cabling 5. IP IP-Addressing Basics IP-Address Classes ARP and ICMP Network Address Translation Multiple Subnet Broadcast General IP Design Strategies DNS and DHCP 6. IP Dynamic Routing Static Routing Types of Dynamic Routing Protocols RIP IGRP and EIGRP OSPF BGP 7. IPX Dynamic Routing General IPX Design Strategies 8. Elements of Efficiency Using Equipment Features Effectively Hop Counts MTU Throughout the Network Bottlenecks and Congestion Filtering Quality of Service and Traffic Shaping 9. Network Management Network-Management Components Designing a Manageable Network SNMP Management Problems 10. Special Topics IP Multicast Networks IPv6 Security Appendix: Combining robabilities Glossary Bibliography Index