The Illustrated Network

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About The Illustrated Network

”Destined to become one of the classics on practical IP networking and a cornerstone of the required reading lists of students and professionals alike.” Jeff Doyle, Doyle & Associates

In 1994, W. Richard Stevens and Addison-Wesley published a networking classic: TCP/IP Illustrated. The model for that book was a brilliant, unfettered approach to networking concepts that has proven itself over time to be popular with readers of beginning to intermediate networking knowledge.

Now, The Illustrated Network takes this time-honored approach and modernizes it by creating not only a much larger and more complicated network, but also by incorporating all the networking advancements that have taken place since the mid-1990s, which are many. This book takes the popular Stevens approach and modernizes it, employing 2008 equipment, operating systems, and router vendors. It presents an illustrated explanation of how TCP/IP works with consistent examples from a real, working network configuration that includes servers, routers, and workstations. Diagnostic traces allow the reader to follow the discussion with unprecedented clarity and precision.

True to the title of the book, there are 250+ diagrams and screen shots, as well as topology diagrams and a unique repeating chapter opening diagram. Illustrations are also used as end-of-chapter questions. A complete and modern network was assembled to write this book at Juniper Networks, with all the material coming from real objects connected and running on the network, not assumptions.

Table of Contents

• Protocols and Layers
• TCP/IP Protocols and Devices
• Network Technologies
• IPv4 and IPv6 Addressing
• Resolution Protocol
• IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
• ICMP
• Routing
• Forwarding IP Packets
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• TCP
• Multiplexing and Sockets
• Routing and Peering
• IGPs: RIP, OSPF, and IS-IS
• BGP
• Multicast
• IP Switching and Convergence
• DHCP
• DNS: The Domain Name System
• FTP
• SMTP and Email
• HTTP
• Securing Sockets with SSL
• SNMP
• SSH (Remote Access)
• MPLS-based VPNs
• NAT
• Firewalls
• IPSec
• Voice over IP

About the Authors

Walter Goralski has worked in the telecommunications and networking industry since 1970. He spent 14 years in the Bell System, then worked with minicomputers and LANs at Wang Laboratories, and the Internet at Pace University, where he was a graduate professor for 15 years. After 8 years as a technical trainer, he joined Juniper Networks as a Senior Staff Engineer in 2000.

Mr. Goralski is the author of over 10 books on networking, including the bestselling SONET/SDH (now in its third edition). He has an MS in Computer Science from Pace University.