Introduction

In 1998, when we first started writing Advanced IP Network Design, we had no idea that the future would bring us more and more deeply into the realms of routed network design or that we would work together in the same place in closely related teams for all of these years. We originally wrote Advanced IP Network Design to help answer some of the questions we heard on a regular basis as engineers working in the Cisco Technical Support Center Routing Protocol and Escalation teams.

In many ways, we wrote this book for the same reason: to help customers we meet on a daily basis with the answers to the questions we always hear. What is the best way to build addressing for my network? How do I redistribute between two protocols without ...

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