Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 720 pages
- Published by: Wiley
- Edition: 1st Edition June 27, 2000
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0471345865
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0471345862
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Book Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.6 x 1.9 inches
- Weighs: 2.6 pounds
Product Description
The most in-depth guide to the capabilities, application, and design of LAN switches and switched internetworksWritten by an innovator who has been at the forefront of networking technology for more than two decades, this comprehensive book covers everything you need to know about LAN switching. From understanding switch functions and features to technology integration and network management, it provides valuable insights for network planners, developers, and managers. Seifert helps you gain a clear understanding of the often-complex features and options available in LAN switches, along with detailed explanations of the latest technology enhancements-including previously unpublished information on Link Aggregation, Virtual LANs, and Layer 3 switches. Packed with the most up-to-date and complete information on LAN switches, this book:
* Explains how switches and bridges operate, and explores implementation and performance issues
* Details how switches can be deployed in both homogeneous and heterogeneous LAN environments
* Provides a comprehensive explanation of the Spanning Tree Protocol
* Covers source routing, which is available on Token Ring and FDDI networks
* Explains full duplex LAN operation and link flow control methods
* Looks at the applications and IEEE 802.3ad standard for aggregated links and their effect on system and higher-layer protocol behavior
* Introduces Virtual LANs and the IEEE 802.1Q standard
* Discusses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as well as other forms of itch management
* Explores the architecture and data flow through a typical switch, including an analysis of switch fabric options
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The most in-depth guide to the capabilities, application, and design of LAN switches and switched internetworksWritten by an innovator who has been at the forefront of networking technology for more than two decades, this comprehensive book covers everything you need to know about LAN switching. From understanding switch functions and features to technology integration and network management, it provides valuable insights for network planners, developers, and managers. Seifert helps you gain a clear understanding of the often-complex features and options available in LAN switches, along with detailed explanations of the latest technology enhancements-including previously unpublished information on Link Aggregation, Virtual LANs, and Layer 3 switches. Packed with the most up-to-date and complete information on LAN switches, this book:
* Explains how switches and bridges operate, and explores implementation and performance issues
* Details how switches can be deployed in both homogeneous and heterogeneous LAN environments
* Provides a comprehensive explanation of the Spanning Tree Protocol
* Covers source routing, which is available on Token Ring and FDDI networks
* Explains full duplex LAN operation and link flow control methods
* Looks at the applications and IEEE 802.3ad standard for aggregated links and their effect on system and higher-layer protocol behavior
* Introduces Virtual LANs and the IEEE 802.1Q standard
* Discusses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) as well as other forms of itch management
* Explores the architecture and data flow through a typical switch, including an analysis of switch fabric options
Reader ReviewsThe main reason I'm writing this review is that I feel that this book is not getting the readership it "rich"ly deserves.Rich covers the basics of Lans with elan (all puns copyrighted).You will understand the concepts and implementation of bridging thus allowing you to view routing in a better perspective.Rich's laws of networking are absolutely gems: a chapter summarized into a line.His excellent and generous use of flowcharts and diagrams deserve some stars by themselves.Also the description of the protocols, the tradeoffs made during their design leaves you with an insight as to how to (and in some cases how not to) design a working protocol. The last chapter is a gem - it covers the life of a packet as it enters the bridge till it exits on one of the ports.If you're a router guy, read this and you'll never sneer at a bridge again. The explanations are lucid,simple to the point and are peppered with the odd bad engineering joke (better than Radia Perlman's sarcasm :)]I bought this book based on other readers recommendations and am glad for the same. This book is a networking bible along with those by Stevens,Comer,Perlman and of course thomas maufer. While you can more or less read any chapter in isolation, you are recommended to go in order to maximize your output from this book. PS: A layer 1 switch is a shared hub or a repeater * A layer 2 switch is a bridge * A layer 3 switch is a router * The rest of this review was lost due to collisions on the lan. Back off Rich,Back off !! :)
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