Packet Guide to Routing and Switching: Exploring the Network Layer (Hartpence Bruce)(Paperback)

Go beyond layer 2 broadcast domains with this in-depth tour of advanced link and internetwork layer protocols, and learn how they enable you to expand to larger topologies. An ideal follow-up to Packet Guide to Core Network Protocols, this concise guide dissects several of these protocols to explain their structure and operation.This isn't a book on packet theory. Author Bruce Hartpence built topologies in a lab as he wrote this guide, and each chapter includes several packet captures. You'll learn about protocol classification, static vs. dynamic topologies, and reasons for installing a particular route.This guide covers: Host routing--Process a routing table and learn how traffic starts out across a networkStatic routing--Build router routing tables and understand how forwarding decisions are made and
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