| OverviewAn essential guide to scaling and maintaining large
networks.
Understand critical scalability issues and the parameters to
plan for future network growth Examine detailed migration plans with sample scenarios and
working Cisco configuration examples Learn the pros and cons of each major routing protocol and how
to choose the right one for your environment Understand the operations and scalability features of Protocol
Independent Multicast (PIM) Implement effective quality of service and network management
techniques Benefit from extensive large-scale network design and
configuration case studies
Large-Scale IP Network Solutions provides practical
advice for network engineers as IP networks grow and become more
complex. With in-depth discussions of the major IP
protocols--including RIP, Enhanced IGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP--this
book evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each protocol. In
addition to specific large and medium network protocol deployment
issues, this guide contains special sections on more general topics
such as network management, core and distribution networks,
multicasting, and quality of service features.
Router configuration examples, network case studies, and sample
scenarios all help you put the book's information to use and become
an effective Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE). In
addition, this title offers unique elements to help you prepare for
the exam, including: case studies that highlight real-world design,
implementation, management, and troubleshooting issues;
configuiration examples from actual network input and output;
scenarios that help you put solutions to use; and review questions
and exercises. Editorial ReviewsProduct Description CCIE Professional Development: Large-Scale IP Network Solutions is a core textbook for preparation for the CCIE Routing and Switching exam track. As well as CCIE preparation, Large-Scale IP Network Solutions provides solutions for network engineers as IP networks grow and become more complex. The book discusses all major IP protocols in depth, including RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, and BGP. It evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of each protocol, helping you to choose the right ones for your environments. Special sections address scalability, migration planning, network management, and security for large-scale networks. Router configuration examples, network case studies, and sample scenarios all help you put the information presented in the book to use. |
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Reader Reviews From Amazon (Ranked by 'Helpfulness') Average Customer Rating: based on 6 reviews. What?, 2002-05-04 Reviewer rating: Never before has a Cisco book covered so many protocols so poorly in so little space. I actually felt more confused about IS-IS after reading this book than I did before I started. The coverage of other protocols is little better. The author's frequent grammatical slip-ups render many sentances open to contracdictory interpretations. On the whole, I would recommend the CCIE Routing TCP/IP Volumes I and II before this book. There are some good chapters here and there in the book, and some good information you won't find elsewhere, but the middle chunk of the text is a waste. So much of this book is a bad rehash of what the CCNP or CCIE candidate will have already studied elsewhere as to make the reading experience as a whole discouraging. | Poorly Edited, 2001-01-25 Reviewer rating: Editing seems to have been limited to running the text through a spell checker. Page 69 refers to "a Frame Rely network". Page 72 explains that an ISDN BRI provides "two barrier channels". Frequently diagrams include acronyms for which no explanation is offered, as if the figure was shoveled in from somewhere else. There is no glossary of acronyms and many are missing from the index. An entire chapter is spent on RIP1, with redundant statements about the lack of VLSM support and obsolete status. My experience was that issues of technical sublety were as often muddied as they were explained. There is good info in this book, too, but considering the Cisco name, I expected much better. | Good, but supplement your reading with the relevant RFCs, 2000-12-08 Reviewer rating: I used this book to understand Cisco's BGP4 implementation. And I thank my lucky stars that I'd read RFC 1771 first! Overall, this book does a good job of explaining the various knobs that Cisco supports for the protocols discussed. However, in attempting to also cover the bits and bytes of these protocols, the book makes far too many mistakes. For instance, on page 269, when discussing BGP's UPDATE message, the book says that the Withdrawn Routes field consists of, "... triples, with length being one octet, and indicates the number of octets in the prefix field." First of all, the so-called "" construct is not a "triple"! Second, the length element does not indicate the "number of octets" in the prefix field, rather, it indicates the number of significant bits!On the other hand, this book does a much better job of explaining various protocol features at a high level. In particular, its discussion of BGP4 path attributes is very good. Much better than RFC 1771 in fact! In summary, get your bits and bytes from the RFCs and use this book to understand when to tweak the Cisco's knobs for its various protocol implementations. | Yes, it's a good one., 2000-11-22 Reviewer rating: This book is about 560 pages long, and aproximately first 300 pages describe briefly Internet evolution and basics of IP protocols. It's a pretty interesting stuff, the content is good and style is o.k. too, but you can read it anywhere and I'd say there is nothing special there. The real value of this book in the last 260 pages. There are a few case studies, and it's something really unique. I was very surprised that I've never thought about some issues specific to very large networks. Hub and spoke network design for 800 routers is pretty much different from the 80 routers network. I think there are very few people in the world who are working on so high level and it's very interesting just to take a look at the problem examples they meet in their work. Probably, this book won't help much in your everyday work, and probaly you'd expect more large network specific information. Of course, I wouldn't recommend you to read this book in the very beginning of your networking career. But if you 've got a strong networking backgroung and you're looking for more advanced design tutorials, this book, especially last 200 pages, would be very helpful. | An outstanding book from one of the top network designers, 2000-09-05 Reviewer rating: Khalid is one of the best network designers I have ever met. His book is excellent technically, and is both clear and concise. This is not a book for the faint hearted - a good knowledge of routing protocols and network design is a must. For those who are experienced network engineers, trying to "go to the next level", this is a MUST HAVE. |
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