Enhanced IP Services for Cisco Networks (Hardcover)

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Learn how to manage and deploy the latest IP services in Cisco-centric networks.

• Understand VPN security concepts: confidentiality, integrity, origin authentication, non-repudiation, anti-replay, perfect forward secrecy
• Deploy quality of service technologies to protect your mission-critical applications
• Find out how IPsec technology works and how to configure it in IOS
• Learn how to set up a router as a firewall and intrusion detection system
• Gain efficient use of your IP address space with NAT, VLSM, IP unnumbered
• Solve real-world routing problems with redistribution, route filtering, summarization, policy routing
• Enable authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) security services wih RADIUS and TACACS+ servers

Enhanced IP Services for Cisco Networks is a guide to the new enabling and advanced IOS services that build more scalable, intelligent, and secure networks. You will learn the technical details necessary to deploy quality of service and VPN technologies, as well as improved security and advanced routing features. These services will allow you to securely extend the network to new frontiers, protect your network from attacks, and enhance network transport with application-level prioritization.

This book offers a practical guide to implementing IPsec, the IOS Firewall, and IOS Intrusion Detection System. Also included are advanced routing principles and quality of service features that focus on improving the capability of your network. A good briefing on cryptography fully explains the science that makes VPNs possible. Rather than being another routing book, this is a guide to improving your network's capabilities by understanding and using the sophisticated features available to you in Cisco's IOS software

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Learn how to manage and deploy the latest IP services in Cisco-centric networks.Understand VPN security concepts: confidentiality, integrity, origin authentication, non-repudiation, anti-replay, perfect forward secrecyDeploy quality of service technologies to protect your mission-critical applicationsFind out how IPsec technology works and how to configure it in IOSLearn how to set up a router as a firewall and intrusion detection systemGain efficient use of your IP address space with NAT, VLSM, IP unnumberedSolve real-world routing problems with redistribution, route filtering, summarization, policy routingEnable authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) security services wih RADIUS and TACACS+ serversEnhanced IP Services for Cisco Networks is a guide to the new enabling and advanced IOS services that build more scalable, intelligent, and secure networks. You will learn the technical details necessary to deploy quality of service and VPN technologies, as well as improved security and advanced routing features. These services will allow you to securely extend the network to new frontiers, protect your network from attacks, and enhance network transport with application-level prioritization. This book offers a practical guide to implementing IPsec, the IOS Firewall, and IOS Intrusion Detection System. Also included are advanced routing principles and quality of service features that focus on improving the capability of your network. A good briefing on cryptography fully explains the science that makes VPNs possible. Rather than being another routing book, this is a guide to improving your network's capabilities by understanding and using the sophisticated features available to you in Cisco's IOS software

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 432 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Press (October 3, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578701066
• ISBN-13: 978-1578701063
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,338,233 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent teacher, Good topics to see in a book!, December 22, 1999

By	G. Barber (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

I liked this book for three main reasons: (1) It is very well-written -- what I mean by that is, the book explains the technologies clearly like a good teacher would, but without being simplistic. This is an advantage 'Enhanced IP Services' has over most 'technical' books I own. (2) The topics are relatively new, good for keeping sharp in today's Internet world, and (surprisingly) quite interesting. I do a lot of Cisco networking, but I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about IP, CIDR, routing, VPNs, stopping hackers, and IP quality of service. There's a lot in there. (3) What I didn't know before buying the book is there's also some quite handy appendixes. There's one that is like a 'Cisco IOS in a Nutshell,' which I thought I didn't need but I found some new tricks in there that are useful on Cisco routers. Another appendix reminds you how to fix a router if you don't know the password (useful when I get used routers). Bottom line: A great book for the Cisco or IP professional. Great job Cisco Press.

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent! New technology and well-written. Learning a lot, November 1, 1999

By A Customer

I was very happy to find this book because it covers topics I've not found together (and done well) in other networking books. Particularly, I have found IPsec (VPN), Quality of Service, Security, NAT, and intrustion detection well covered and timely. I like the practical and brief explanations of Cryptography techniques (wasn't all mathematical and abstract). The author does a good job explaining VLSM (one of the better I've seen). There are some "advanced" routing topics there too (the author seems to make some CCIE test hints, might help me). What I really like is that he clearly explains each IOS command line-by-line. I have lots of net books, but this book is unique, well-written, and a keeper. The book takes a stance that you should get more out of your routers by using more of the technology in Cisco IOS. It has given me some good ideas for our network, some that I've started to implement (like anti-spoofing access lists). I'm a bit surprised that some of the topics are fairly new (bleeding edge?); like Class based weighted fair queuing which just came out in IOS 12.0(5)T! I highly recommend this book for networking professionals, especially those who are bored of routing books (like myself).

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read for the MCNS Course., September 4, 2000

By	Tom Chang (Monterey Park, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This book offers in Part III (Chapters 6 through 8) a lucid explanation of Cisco Security. In addition, it was the best presentation for the layman of IKE and IPSec I've read. This book is definitely a must have if you are going to take the MCNS (Managing Cisco Network Security) exam. I wished I'd read this book before I passed the MCNS exam - it would've saved me tons of time in terms of understanding IPSec in general AND Cisco's implementation of IPSec. Part III, "Managing Security" was alone enough for me to use this book.

The writing style AND the LOGICAL presentation of the material really made me understand Cisco's implementation of Cisco Security, even though I had taken the Cisco course MCNS and had already pored over the courseware on IPSsec.