Designing Large-Scale LANs

Table of Contents:

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 Probabilities

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