Internet Routing Architectures (Design & Implementation) [Hardcover]

Bassam Halabi (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1562056522 | ISBN-13: 978-1562056520 | Publication Date: January 15, 1997 | Edition: 1st

This comprehensive reference explores the ins and outs of interdomain routing network designs. You will have all the information you need to make knowledgeable routing decisions for Internet connectivity in your environment. Using a practical, example-oriented approach, this 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 BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol), design sound and stable networks, configure the required policies using Cisco IOS software, and explore routing practices and rules on the Internet. Become an expert in data routing manipulation by using this book as your reference. Internet Routing Architectures--a complete resource for internet routing solutions and scenarios.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) does exactly what its name implies--it routes traffic efficiently from its origin on one network to its destination on another. Most typically, it's the protocol that provides a private network with Internet connectivity. Internet Routing Architectures is an authoritative text on BGP in theory and practice, covering everything from good design of BGP-based internetworks to actual implementation of those internetworks on Cisco Systems routers. This second edition includes more information than its predecessor on BGP-4; other improvements are updates rather than major additions or revisions. You will appreciate having this book on hand if your job has to do with optimizing traffic under BGP, or if you're preparing for one of the Cisco certification exams.

Sam Halabi--a respected authority on Cisco routers--discusses addressing schemes and the ways in which routing protocols operate within those schemes. The general information serves mainly to set the stage for BGP, which Halabi explains lucidly in theory before getting into design issues and, finally, implementation via router configuration. The book presents practical situations ("Multihoming to a Single Provider," for example, which is subsequently broken down into sub-scenarios about how the multiple connections are used) and steps through the design decisions associated with them. It's also big on diagrams and uses one on nearly every other page to drive home points. The result: this book earns its cover price as a tutorial and as a reference. --David Wall

Topics covered: Means of connecting one network to another, especially by means of Border Gateway Protocol 4 (BGP-4) on Cisco Systems routers. There's coverage of addressing and routing-protocol generalities, as well as of BGP tuning for routing inside and outside autonomous systems. Design decisions are a big part of this book's scope. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.

From the Publisher

This invaluable reference provides realistic, practical design solutions from Cisco Systems-the Internetworking authority. - Teaches how to construct and support robust ISP connections to the Internet

- Illustrates Inter

- and Intra-domain routing issues, topologies, and scenarios for practical application

- The only Internetworking book emphasizing domain routing issues and protocols endorsed by Cisco!

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 477 pages
• Publisher: New Riders Pub; 1st edition (January 15, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1562056522
• ISBN-13: 978-1562056520
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,808,385 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars They should've called this the 'Routing Bible', August 3, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Internet Routing Architectures (Design & Implementation) (Hardcover)

This is, without a doubt, *the* definitive routing reference for the network engineer; and one of the best technical books I have ever read. I usually skip to the back and pick out the parts that interest me; I'm reading this from start to finish, it's that well written. If you need to integrate your LAN with the internet, or if you are a network consultant or ISP tech like me, you need this book. This is required reading.<P

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

This review is from: Internet Routing Architectures (Design & Implementation) (Hardcover)

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 (filtering/manipulating routes, attributes and community values).

Note that it is not a BGP specification nor a Cisco IOS reference. A better title would be "BGP Applications".

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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J Ruigrok vd Werven (Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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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 Internet. Also a must-read. Having both books will tell you everything you need.