Advanced IP Network Design (CCIE Professional Development)

Advanced IP Network Design (CCIE Professional Development)

by Alvaro Retana - CCIE, Don Slice - CCIE, Russ White - CCIE
Released June 1999
Publisher(s): Cisco Press
ISBN: 9781578700974

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Book description

A core textbook for CCIE preparation

  • Learn how to apply effective hierarchical design principles to build stable, large-scale networks

  • Examine broken networks and discover the best methods for fixing them

  • Understand how the right topology enhances network performance

  • Construct the most efficient addressing and summarization scheme for your network

  • Prevent network failure by applying the most appropriate redundancy at the network core, distribution layer, and access layer

  • Extend your network's capabilities through proper deployment of advanced IGP- and EGP-based protocols

    • Advanced IP Network Design provides the solutions network engineers need to grow and stabilize large IP networks. Technology advancements and corporate growth inevitably lead to the necessity for network expansion. This book presents design concepts and techniques that enable networks to evolve into supporting larger, more complex applications while maintaining critical stability.

    Advanced IP Network Design provides you with a basic foundation to understand and implement the most efficient network design around the network core, distribution and access layers, and the common and edge network services. After establishing an efficient heirarchical network design, you will learn to apply OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGP, NHRP, and MPLS. Case studies support each protocol to provide you with valuable solutions to common blocks encountered when implementing an IGP- or EGP-based network

    Advanced IP Network Design offers expert-level solutions and help with CCIE exam preparation through the following features: practical discussion and implementation of CCIE-level networking issues; case studies that highlight real-world design, implementation, management, and troubleshooting issues; scenarios that help you put the presented solutions to use; and chapter-ending review questions and exercises.

    Table of contents

    1. Copyright
    2. About the Authors
    3. About the Technical Reviewers
    4. Acknowledgments
    5. Introduction
    6. Foundation for Stability: Hierarchical Networks
      1. Hierarchical Design Principles
        1. Where Do You Start?
        2. The Right Topology
        3. The Network Core
        4. The Distribution Layer
        5. The Access Layer
        6. Connections to Common Services
        7. Summary
        8. Case Study: Is Hierarchy Important in Switched Networks?
        9. Review
      2. Addressing & Summarization
        1. Summarization
        2. Strategies for Successful Addressing
        3. IPv6 Addressing
        4. General Principles of Addressing
        5. Summary
        6. Case Study: Default Routes to Interfaces
        7. Case Study: Network Address Translation
        8. Review
      3. Redundancy
        1. Issues and Strategies of Redundancy
        2. Core Redundancy
        3. Distribution Redundancy
        4. Access Redundancy
        5. Connections to Common Services
        6. Summary
        7. Case Study: What's the Best Route?
        8. Case Study: Redundancy at Layer 2 Using Switches
        9. Case Study: Dial Backup with a Single Router
        10. Case Study: Dial Backup with Two Routers
        11. Review
      4. Applying the Principles of Network Design
        1. Reforming an Unstable Network
        2. Review
    7. Scaling with Interior Gateway Protocols
      1. OSPF Network Design
        1. Dividing the Network for OSPF Implementation
        2. Case Study: Troubleshooting OSPF Adjacency Problems
        3. Case Study: Which Area Should This Network Be In?
        4. Case Study: Determining the Area in Which to Place a Link
        5. Case Study: Dial Backup
        6. Case Study: OSPF Externals and the Next Hop
        7. Review
      2. IS-IS Network Design
        1. Dividing the Network
        2. Analyzing Routers on the DMZ for External Connections
        3. Other Factors in IS-IS Scaling
        4. Troubleshooting IS-IS Neighbor Relationships
        5. Case Study: The Single Area Option
        6. Case Study: The Two-Layer Network
        7. Review
      3. EIGRP Network Design
        1. Analyzing the Network Core for Summarization
        2. Analyzing the Network's Distribution Layer for Summarization
        3. Analyzing Routing in the Network's Access Layer
        4. Analyzing Routes to External Connections
        5. Analyzing Routes to the Common Services Area
        6. Analyzing Routes to Dial-In Clients
        7. Summary of EIGRP Network Design
        8. Case Study: Summarization Methods
        9. Case Study: Controlling Query Propagation
        10. Case Study: A Plethora of Topology Table Entries
        11. Case Study: Troubleshooting EIGRP Neighbor Relationships
        12. Case Study: Troubleshooting Stuck-in-Active Routes
        13. Case Study: Redistribution
        14. Case Study: EIGRP/IGRP Redistribution
        15. Case Study: Retransmissions and SIA
        16. Case Study: Multiple EIGRP ASs
        17. Review
    8. Scaling beyond the Domain
      1. BGP Cores and Network Scalability
        1. BGP in the Core
        2. Scaling beyond the Core
        3. Dividing the Network into Pieces
        4. BGP Network Growing Pains
        5. Case Study: Route Reflectors as Route Servers
        6. Case Study: Troubleshooting BGP Neighbor Relationships
        7. Case Study: Conditional Advertisement
        8. Case Study: Dual-Homed Connections to the Internet
        9. Case Study: Route Dampening
        10. Review
      2. Other Large Scale Cores
        1. NHRP
        2. Case Study: NHRP in an ATM Network
        3. MPLS
        4. Review
    9. Appendixes
      1. OSPF Fundamentals
        1. How OSPF Works
        2. Router IDs
        3. LSA Types
        4. Reliable Flooding of LSAs
        5. Building Adjacencies
        6. Adjacencies on Multi-Access Networks
        7. OSPF and Nonbroadcast Multi-Access Networks
        8. Areas
        9. External Route Injection
        10. Virtual Links
        11. On-Demand Routing
      2. IS-IS Fundamentals
        1. How IS-IS Works
        2. End Systems and Intermediate Systems
        3. CLNS Addressing
        4. Routing in an IS-IS Network
        5. Metrics & External Routes in IS-IS Networks
        6. Building Adjacencies
        7. LSP Flooding and SPF Recalculation Timers
        8. Neighbor Loss and LSP Regeneration
        9. IP Integration into IS-IS
        10. Multiple net Statements
      3. EIGRP Fundamentals
        1. DUAL Operation
        2. Establishing Neighbor Relationships in an EIGRP Network
        3. Metrics in an EIGRP Network
        4. Loop Free Routes in EIGRP Networks
        5. Split-Horizon in EIGRP
        6. Clearing the Topology Table and Querying Neighbors in EIGRP Networks
        7. Stuck-in-Active Routes
        8. Bounding Queries in EIGRP Networks
        9. EIGRP Summarization
        10. Changing Metrics in EIGRP for Reliable Transport
        11. Load Balancing in EIGRP Networks
      4. BGP Fundamentals
        1. Mechanics of a Path Vector Protocol
        2. Path Decision
        3. Community Strings
        4. Neighbor Relationships
        5. Route Filtering in BGP
        6. iBGP Synchronization
        7. BGP Summarization
      5. Answers to the Review Questions
        1. Answers to Chapter 1 Review Questions
        2. Answers to Chapter 2 Review Questions
        3. Answers to Chapter 3 Review Questions
        4. Answers to Chapter 4 Review Questions
        5. Answers to Chapter 5 Review Questions
        6. Answers to Chapter 6 Review Questions
        7. Answers to Chapter 7 Review Questions
        8. Answers to Chapter 8 Review Questions
        9. Answers to Chapter 9 Review Questions
      6. Glossary
        1. A
        2. B
        3. C
        4. D
        5. E
        6. F
        7. G–H
        8. I–J
        9. K–L
        10. M
        11. N
        12. O–P
        13. Q–R
        14. S
        15. T
        16. U–Z
    10. Index

    Product information

    • Title: Advanced IP Network Design (CCIE Professional Development)
    • Author(s): Alvaro Retana - CCIE, Don Slice - CCIE, Russ White - CCIE
    • Release date: June 1999
    • Publisher(s): Cisco Press
    • ISBN: 9781578700974