Internet Routing Architectures, 2nd Edition

  • Published: Aug 23, 2000
  • Copyright 2000
  • Dimensions: 7-3/8" x 9-1/8"
  • Pages: 528
  • Edition: 2nd
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  • ISBN-10: 1-57870-233-X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-57870-233-6
  • eBook (Watermarked)
  • ISBN-10: 1-58705-435-3
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-435-8

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The industry's leading resource for Internet routing solutions and scenarios

  • Explore the functions, attributes, and applications of BGP-4, the de facto interdomain routing protocol, through practical scenarios and configuration examples
  • Learn the contemporary Internet structure and understand how to evaluate a service provider in dealing with routing and connectivity issues
  • Master the addressing techniques--including Classless Interdomain Routing (CIDR)--that are demanded today to facilitate the Internet's rapid and continuing growth
  • Develop optimal routing policies--redundancy, traffic balancing, symmetry, and stability--for your network
  • Learn how to seamlessly integrate your intradomain and interdomain routing and manage large and growing autonomous systems

Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition, explores the ins and outs of interdomain routing network designs with emphasis on BGP-4 (Border Gateway Protocol Version 4)--the de facto interdomain routing protocol.

Using a practical, example-oriented approach, this comprehensive resource provides you with real solutions for ISP connectivity issues. You will learn how to integrate your network on the global Internet and discover how to build large-scale autonomous systems. You will also learn to control expansion of interior routing protocols using BGP-4, design sound and stable networks, configure the required policies using Cisco IOS Software, and explore routing practices and rules on the Internet.

 

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Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for BGP routing architectures, January 10, 2001
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Chris Chase (Middletown, NJ) - See all my reviews
I am the architect of a leading MPLS VPN service which uses BGPv4 with MPLS extensions. I constantly refer back to this book for standard BGP scenarios (it has no MPLS VPN info). I have recommended this book to all our techincal support people and our customers for designing BGP peering networks.

The book is well written, well organized and easy to follow. It has great breath of BGP applications. It is a tremendous help for those designing AS peering networks.

It gives a brief overview of internet routing then dives into BGP. After the BGP protocol description, the next part of the book has applications geared around scenarios/case studies. The last part is specific Cisco IOS configurations for the scenarios in the previous part. The scenarios cover, to list a few: load balancing, preference routing (primary/backup), route redistribution, default routes, route summarization, route reflectors and confederations (scaling), damping (stability), policy control... Read more

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the two BGP bibles, August 29, 2001
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This review is from: Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
If you are looking for a book describing all the things which need to be taken care of when planning and implementing BGP then you will appreciate this book.
Mr Halabi provides a lot of example set-ups which are, for the people working in the Internet networking industry, very familiar. The examples range from a typical customer who wants BGP connectivity to multi-customer and international backbone configurations.
Aside from the many examples, which serve the text well in getting the material understood, Mr Halabi takes care to describe the fundamentals associated with it as well.
However, this is not a book for the faint at heart. Prior knowledge of IP and routing will be useful in order to appreciate this book.
Of course, this books focuses on the Cisco IOS architecture syntax, but the explanations and details will suit anyone willing to learn in-depth about BGP.
The other bible is [Juniper's] John W. Stewart's book: BGP4 Inter-Domain Routing in the... Read more
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars A great BGP book, but not the first book for the CCIE, January 31, 2006
This review is from: Internet Routing Architectures (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
I have always felt that I am part of the small minority that just does not see the beauty of this book if studying for the CCIE. I have, for years, read other's comments on the how Halabi's "Internet Routing Arch" is a `must have', yet I still have not found a similar reason why. While I do feel that the book does (probably) the best job at explaining BGP and how to implement BGP in a Cisco-centric world, I have not discovered the value for the CCIE. I would much rather spend my time with CiscoPress's "Routing TCP/IP" Volume 2, by Jeff Doyle and Jennifer DeHaven Carroll than this book.

One item of concern, there is a noticable amount of trivial errors in this book that can lead to disaster if implemented incorrectly. For example:

Page 106 - "...any traffic that has an origin OR destination that does not belong to the local AS." This clearly should be an AND, not OR.

Page 315 - "You can also specify a PREFIX list..." - I believe this should be a... Read more
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Table of Contents

I. THE CONTEMPORARY INTERNET.

1. Evolution of the Internet.

2. ISP Services and Characteristics.

3. IP Addressing and Allocation Techniques.

II. ROUTING PROTOCOL BASICS.

4. Interdomain Routing Basics.

5. Border Gateway Protocol Version 4.

III. EFFECTIVE INTERNET ROUTING DESIGNS.

6. Tuning BGP Capabilities.

7. Redundancy, Symmetry, and Load Balancing.

8. Controlling Routing Inside the Autonomous System.

9. Controlling Large-Scale Autonomous Systems.

10. Designing Stable Internets.

IV. INTERNET ROUTING DEVICE CONFIGURATION.

11. Configuring Basic BGP Functions and Attributes.

12. Configuring Effective Internet Routing Policies.

V. APPENDIXES.

Appendix A: BGP Command Reference.

Appendix B: References for Further Study.

Appendix C: BGP Outbound Route Filter (ORF).

Appendix D: Multiprotocol BGP (MBGP).

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