Internet Core Protocols

The Definitive Guide

Auteur(s) : Eric Hall
Editeur : O'Reilly

Nombre de pages : 472 pages
Date de parution : 20/02/2000

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Résumé

If you've ever been responsible for a network, you know that sinking
feeling: your pager has gone off at 2 a.m., the network is broken, and you
can't figure out why using a dial-in connection from home. You drive
into the office, dig out your protocol analyzer, and spend the next four
hours trying to put things back together before the staff shows up for
work.

When this happens, you often find yourself looking at the low-level guts
of the Internet protocols: you're deciphering individual packets, trying
to figure out what is (or isn't) happening. Until now, the only real
guide to the protocols has been the Internet RFCs -- and they're hardly
what you want to be reading late at night when your network is down.
There hasn't been a good book on the fundamentals of IP networking aimed
at network administrators -- until now.

Internet Core Protocols: The Definitive Guide contains all the
information you need for low-level network debugging. It provides
thorough coverage of the fundamental protocols in the TCP/IP suite: IP,
TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP (in its many variations), and IGMP. (The companion
volume, Internet Application Protocols: The Definitive Guide,
provides detailed information about the commonly used application
protocols, including HTTP, FTP, DNS, POP3, and many others). It includes
many packet captures, showing you what to look for and how to interpret
all the fields. It has been brought up-to-date with the latest developments
in real-world IP networking.

The CD-ROM included with the book contains Shomiti's "Surveyor Lite," a
packet analyzer that runs on Win32 systems, plus the original RFCs,
should you need them for reference. Together, this package includes
everything you need to troubleshoot your network -- except coffee.

Table of contents


Foreword
Preface
1. An Introduction to TCP/IP: A Brief History of the Internet; TCP/IP's Architecture; TCP/IP Protocols and Services In-Depth; How Application Protocols Communicate Over IP
2. The Internet Protocol: The IP Standard; The IP Header; IP in Action; Troubleshooting IP
3. The Address Resolution Protocol: The ARP Standard; The ARP Packet; ARP in Action; Debugging ARP Problems
4. Multicasting and the Internet Group Management Protocol: The IP Multicasting and IGMP Specifications; IGMP Messages; Multicasting and IGMP in Action; Troubleshooting Multicasts and IGMP
5. The Internet Control Message Protocol: The ICMP Specification; ICMP Messages; ICMP in Action; Troubleshooting ICMP
6. The User Datagram Protocol: The UDP Standard; The UDP Header; Troubleshooting UDP
7. The Transmission Control Protocol: The TCP Standard; The TCP Header; TCP in Action; Troubleshooting TCP
A. The Internet Standardization Process
B. IP Addressing Fundamentals
C. Using the CD-ROM
Bibliography
Index