Optimal Routing Design: Techniques for optimizing large-scale IP routing operation and managing network growth

✍ Scribed by White, Russ;Retana, Álvaro;Slice, Don

• Publisher: Cisco Press, Pearson Education [distributor]
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 505
• Series: Networking Technology
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Provides the tools and techniques to build a large-scale, or scalable, IP routed network. Beginning with an overview of design fundamentals, this book discusses the tradeoffs between various competing points of network design, the concepts of hierarchical network design, redistribution, and addressing and summarization.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 9
Foreword......Page 18
Introduction......Page 19
Part I: Network Design Overview......Page 24
Goals for Network Design......Page 26
Reliability......Page 27
Reliability and Resiliency......Page 31
Manageability......Page 34
Scalability......Page 41
Layering......Page 48
Summary......Page 53
Review Questions......Page 54
Hierarchical Design......Page 56
Addressing and Summarization......Page 71
Redistribution......Page 83
Review Questions......Page 92
Part II: Interior Gateway Protocols......Page 94
Deploying EIGRP on a Large-Scale Three-Layer Hierarchical Network......Page 96
Deploying EIGRP on a Two-Layer Hierarchical Network......Page 118
New Features in EIGRP......Page 120
Case Study: Summarization Methods......Page 135
Case Study: Controlling Query Propagation......Page 137
Case Study: A Plethora of Topology Table Entries......Page 139
Case Study: Troubleshooting EIGRP Neighbor Relationships......Page 141
Case Study: Troubleshooting SIA Routes......Page 145
Case Study: Redistribution......Page 150
Case Study: Retransmissions and SIA......Page 155
Case Study: Multiple EIGRP Autonomous Systems......Page 157
Review Questions......Page 160
Summarization and Aggregation......Page 164
Deploying OSPF on Specific Topologies......Page 185
Case Study: OSPF Externals and the Next Hop......Page 203
Case Study: Troubleshooting OSPF Neighbor Adjacencies......Page 205
Review Questions......Page 208
Chapter 5 IS-IS Network Design......Page 210
Deploying IS-IS on a Three-Layer Hierarchy......Page 211
Deploying IS-IS on a Two-Layer Hierarchy......Page 218
Working with IS-IS Routing Areas......Page 219
Deploying IS-IS on Specific Topologies......Page 225
Other Considerations in IS-IS Scaling......Page 233
Case Study: Troubleshooting IS-IS Neighbor Relationships......Page 238
Review Questions......Page 241
Part III: Advanced Network Design......Page 244
Chapter 6 BGP Cores and Network Scalability......Page 246
Case Study: Troubleshooting BGP Neighbor Relationships......Page 248
BGP in the Core......Page 253
Scaling Beyond the Core......Page 257
BGP Network Growing Pains......Page 260
External Connections......Page 268
Review Questions......Page 279
Considerations in Fast Convergence......Page 282
Fast Down Detection......Page 301
Slowing Down When the Network Speeds Up......Page 311
Calculating the Route Faster......Page 317
Deploying GR and Fast Convergence Technologies......Page 323
Review Questions......Page 328
Fundamentals of Routing and Security......Page 330
Types of Attacks Against Routing Systems......Page 339
Protecting Routing Domain Legitimacy......Page 347
Protecting Routing Information......Page 358
Future Directions in Routing Protocol Security......Page 364
References......Page 370
MPLS......Page 374
IPSec......Page 391
NHRP......Page 393
Dynamic Multipoint IPSec VPNs......Page 397
References......Page 400
Part IV: Appendixes......Page 402
Appendix A: EIGRP for IP Basics of Operation......Page 404
Appendix B: OSPF Basics of Operation......Page 420
Appendix C: Integrated IS-IS Basics of Operation......Page 432
Appendix D: Border Gateway Protocol 4 Basics of Operation......Page 442
Appendix E: IP Network Design Checklist......Page 456
Appendix F: Answers to Review Questions......Page 462
Appendix G: Which Routing Protocol?......Page 478
A......Page 492
C......Page 493
E......Page 494
G......Page 496
I......Page 497
M......Page 499
O......Page 500
R......Page 501
S......Page 503
T......Page 504
W-X-Y-Z......Page 505