Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols

Dedication;
Preface;
Audience;
Contents of This Book;
Conventions Used in This Book;
Using Code Examples;
Safari® Books Online;
How to Contact Us;
Content Updates;
Acknowledgments;
Chapter 1: Networking Models;
1.1 What Is a Model?;
1.2 Why Use a Model?;
1.3 OSI Model;
1.4 Introducing TCP/IP;
1.5 Reading;
1.6 Summary;
1.7 Review Questions;
1.8 Review Answers;
1.9 Lab Exercises;
Chapter 2: Ethernet;
2.1 Remember the Models;
2.2 Structure;
2.3 Ethernet Type II vs. 802.3;
2.4 MAC Addresses—Another Look;
2.5 Ethernet Operation;
2.6 Shared Media;
2.7 Physical Layer;
2.8 Encoding;
2.9 Other Types of Signaling;
2.10 Topologies;
2.11 Final Thoughts on Ethernet;
2.12 Reading;
2.13 Summary;
2.14 Review Questions;
2.15 Review Answers;
2.16 Lab Exercises;
Chapter 3: Internet Protocol;
3.1 Protocol Description;
3.2 Structure;
3.3 Addressing;
3.4 Operation;
3.5 Digging a Little Deeper...What Addressing is Sufficient?;
3.6 Security Warning;
3.7 Organizations for Assigning Addresses and Names;
3.8 Standards and RFCs;
3.9 Summary;
3.10 Review Questions;
3.11 Lab Exercises;
Chapter 4: Address Resolution Protocol;
4.1 The Problem;
4.2 Techniques;
4.3 Protocol Description;
4.4 Structure;
4.5 Addressing in the ARP Request;
4.6 Addressing in the ARP Reply;
4.7 Operation;
4.8 Additional Operations;
4.9 Security Warning;
4.10 IPv6;
4.11 Digging a Little Deeper;
4.12 Standards and RFCs;
4.13 Summary;
4.14 Review Questions;
4.15 Review Answers;
4.16 Lab Activities;
Chapter 5: Network Equipment;
5.1 Tables and Hosts;
5.2 Hubs or Repeaters;
5.3 Switches and Bridges;
5.4 Access Points;
5.5 Routers;
5.6 Multilayer Switches and Home Gateways;
5.7 Security;
5.8 Summary;
5.9 Review Questions;
5.10 Review Answers;
5.11 Lab Activities;
Chapter 6: Internet Control Message Protocol;
6.1 Structure;
6.2 Operations and Types;
6.3 Digging a Little Deeper—the One’s Complement;
6.4 IPv6;
6.5 Summary;
6.6 Additional Reading;
6.7 Review Questions;
6.8 Review Answers;
6.9 Lab Activities;
Chapter 7: Subnetting and Other Masking Acrobatics;
7.1 How Do We Use the Mask?;
7.2 What Is a Subnet?;
7.3 Subnet Patterns;
7.4 Subnet IP Addressing;
7.5 A Shorthand Technique;
7.6 The Effect on Address Space;
7.7 Theory vs. Reality;
7.8 Supernetting;
7.9 The Supernetted Network;
7.10 Classless Inter-Domain Routing;
7.11 CIDR and Aggregation Implementation;
7.12 Summary;
7.13 RFCs and Reading;
7.14 Review Questions;
7.15 Review Answers;
7.16 Lab Activities;
Chapter : Internet Protocol Version 6;
8.1 Protocol Description;
8.2 Structure;
8.3 Extensions;
8.4 Addressing;
8.5 IPv4 and IPv6;
8.6 Multicast;
8.7 MAC Addressing;
8.8 Anycast;
8.9 Unspecified;
8.10 Required Addresses;
8.11 Auto-configuration;
8.12 Tunneling;
8.13 Current Status and IPv6 Day;
8.14 Summary;
8.15 Reading;
8.16 Review Questions;
8.17 Review Answers;
8.18 Lab Activities;
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