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Packet guide to core network protocols
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Networking Models
What Is a Model?
Why Use a Model?
OSI Model
Introducing TCP/IP
Chapter 2 Ethernet
Remember the Models
Structure
Ethernet Type II vs. 802.3
MAC Addresses—Another Look
Ethernet Operation
Shared Media
Physical Layer
Encoding
Other Types of Signaling
Topologies
Final Thoughts on Ethernet
Chapter 3 Internet Protocol
Protocol Description
Structure
Addressing
Operation
Digging a Little Deeper...What Addressing is Sufficient?
Security Warning
Organizations for Assigning Addresses and Names
Standards and RFCs
Chapter 4 Address Resolution Protocol
The Problem
Techniques
Protocol Description
Structure
Addressing in the ARP Request
Addressing in the ARP Reply
Operation
Additional Operations
Security Warning
IPv6
Digging a Little Deeper
Standards and RFCs
Chapter 5 Network Equipment
Tables and Hosts
Hubs or Repeaters
Switches and Bridges
Access Points
Routers
Multilayer Switches and Home Gateways
Security
Chapter 6 Internet Control Message Protocol
Structure
Operations and Types
Digging a Little Deeper—the One’s Complement
IPv6
Chapter 7 Subnetting and Other Masking Acrobatics
How Do We Use the Mask?
What Is a Subnet?
Subnet Patterns
Subnet IP Addressing
A Shorthand Technique
The Effect on Address Space
Theory vs. Reality
Supernetting
The Supernetted Network
Classless Inter-Domain Routing
CIDR and Aggregation Implementation
Chapter Internet Protocol Version 6
Protocol Description
Structure
Extensions
Addressing
IPv4 and IPv6
Multicast
MAC Addressing
Anycast
Unspecified
Required Addresses
Auto-configuration
Tunneling
Current Status and IPv6 Day
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