The practical guide to large-scale networking with OSPF and IS-IS.
OSPF and IS-IS: Choosing an IGP for Large-Scale Networks
By Jeff Doyle
ISBN: 0321168798
Paperback, 480 pages
£42.99/$54.99
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About OSPF and IS-IS: Choosing an IGP for Large-Scale Networks
Juniper Network's Jeff Doyle draws on his vast experience working with and designing large-scale networks to offer realistic advice and straight answers on every aspect of working with link-state protocols-from scalability, reliability, and security to area design and database synchronization. This is quickly becoming the definitive guide to using OSPF and IS-IS protocols in large-scale IP enterprise, carrier, and service provider networks.
Mr. Doyle patiently demonstrates how topics and features are implemented in OSPF and then walks through a similar implementation using IS-IS. Professionals who are relatively new to large-scale networking will welcome his practical introduction to the concepts, goals, and history of link state protocols. Mr. Doyle's thorough explanations, end-of-chapter review questions, and many wide-ranging examples for both Cisco's IOS and Juniper Network's Junos, also make this book an exceptional resource for anyone pursuing a CCIE or JNCIE certification.
Book coverage includes:
- Understanding message types, encapsulation, architecture, LSAs, and LSPs
- Optimizing addressing, neighbor discovery, adjacencies, and router designation
- Improving scalability: controlling the scope of flooding, link state database size, SPF calculation efficiency, and much more
- Designing and operating large-scale networks for maximum security and reliability
- Hardening networks to thwart attacks against routing protocols
- Comparing OSPF and IS-IS extensibility
- Utilizing extensions for MPLS-based traffic engineering, IPv6, and multi-topology routing
- Troubleshooting OSPF and IS-IS log entries, debug output, and LS databases
About the Author
Jeff Doyle has designed or assisted with the design of large-scale networks throughout North America, Europe, Japan, Korea, and the People's Republic of China. He specializes in IP routing protocols, MPLS, and IPv6. He is the author of other popular networking books and has presented numerous corporate seminars for Juniper Networks, and has spoken at NANOG< JANOG< APRICOT, and IPv6 Forum conferences.
