The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, Second Edition

The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, Second Edition

by Rich Seifert, James Edwards
Released August 2008
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9780470287156

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Book description

This much-needed update to the bestselling guide on the extensive changes to the local area networks (LAN) switching technologies explains why LAN switching technologies are critical to network design. This in-depth guide covers the capabilities, application, and design of LAN switches and switched internetworks and examines the significant changes that have taken place since the publication of the first edition seven years ago. You’re sure to appreciate the witty writing style and easy-to-follow format on such an often-complicated subject matter.

Table of contents

  1. Copyright
  2. Dedication
  3. Credits
  4. Preface
  5. Introduction
  6. Foundations of LAN Switches
    1. Laying the Foundation
      1. Network Architecture
      2. Addressing
      3. LAN Technology Review
      4. IEEE LAN Standards
      5. Terminology
    2. Transparent Bridges
      1. Principles of Operation
      2. Transparent Bridge Architecture
      3. Implementing the Bridge Address Table
      4. Bridge Performance
      5. The IEEE 802.1D Standard
    3. Bridging Between Technologies
      1. Bridging the LAN Gap
      2. Bridging Between Local and Wide Area Networks
    4. Principles of LAN Switches
      1. A Switch Is a Bridge Is a Switch
      2. Switched LAN Concepts
      3. Cut-Through Versus Store-and-Forward Operation
      4. MultiLayer Switching
      5. A Switch Is a Switch Is a Switch Except When ...
      6. Four Generations of Switch Integration
      7. Switch Configurations
      8. Switch Application Environments
    5. Loop Resolution
      1. Diary of a Loopy LAN
      2. The Spanning Tree Protocol
      3. Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
      4. Loops in a Remotely Bridged (WAN) Catenet
      5. An Example of Loop Resolution
      6. Behavior of a Spanning Tree Catenet
      7. Configuring the Spanning Tree
      8. Up a Tree Without a Protocol?
    6. Source Routing
      1. Overview of Source Routing Operation
      2. Eine Kleine Sourceroutinggeschichte
      3. Source Routing Concepts
      4. Source-Routed Frames
      5. Source Routing Operation
      6. Interconnecting the Source-Routed and Transparently Bridged Universes
      7. IEEE Standards and Source Routing
      8. The Future of Source Routing
  7. Advanced LAN Switch Concepts
    1. Full Duplex Operation
      1. Why a MAC?
      2. Full Duplex Enablers
      3. Full Duplex Ethernet
      4. Dedicated Token Ring
      5. Implications of Full Duplex Operation
      6. Full Duplex Application Environments
    2. LAN and Switch Flow Control
      1. The Need for Flow Control
      2. Controlling Flow in Half Duplex Networks
      3. MAC Control
      4. PAUSE Function
      5. IEEE 802.3x Flow Control Implementation Issues
      6. Flow Control Symmetry
    3. Link Aggregation
      1. Link Aggregation Benefits
      2. Application of Link Aggregation
      3. Aggregate or Upgrade?
      4. Issues in Link Aggregation
      5. IEEE 802.3ad Link Aggregation Standard
      6. Split Up the Trunk
    4. Multicast Pruning
      1. Multicast Usage
      2. Trimming the (Spanning) Tree
      3. GARP Multicast Registration Protocol
    5. Virtual LANs: Applications and Concepts
      1. Applications of VLANs
      2. VLAN Concepts
    6. Virtual LANs: The IEEE Standard
      1. Overview and Scope of the Standard
      2. Elements of the Standard
      3. Tag and Frame Formats
      4. IEEE 802.1Q Switch Operation
      5. Multicast Registration and VLAN Context
      6. VLANs and the Spanning Tree
      7. The Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol
    7. Priority Operation
      1. Why Priority?
      2. LAN Priority Mechanisms
      3. VLAN and Priority Tagging
      4. Getting into the Priority Business
      5. Priority Operation in Switches
    8. LAN Security
      1. Network Security Overview
      2. LAN Security
      3. Wrap Up
    9. Switch Management
      1. The Simple Network Management Protocol
      2. Network Monitoring Tools
      3. Internal Switch Management Platforms
      4. Non-SNMP Management
    10. Network Troubleshooting Strategies
      1. The Trouble with Troubleshooting
      2. Housekeeping
      3. Troubleshooting Tools
      4. A Systematic Approach
      5. Some Strategies for Layer 2 Troubleshooting
      6. Wrap Up
    11. Make the Switch!
      1. Keeping House
      2. Switch Data Receive Path Functions
      3. Switch Fabrics
      4. Switch Data Transmit Path Functions
  8. APPENDIX Protocol Parsing
    1. Frame Format
    2. Decision Flow
  9. References
  10. Glossary
  11. Index

Product information

  • Title: The All-New Switch Book: The Complete Guide to LAN Switching Technology, Second Edition
  • Author(s): Rich Seifert, James Edwards
  • Release date: August 2008
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9780470287156