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Internetworking with TCP/IP

Name: Internetworking with TCP/IP
Author: Douglas E. Comer
ISBN: 9780130183804

by Douglas E. Comer

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Overview

THIS NEW EDITION OF VOLUME 1:

Explains how voice and video are sent over IP internets and how IP Telephony operates
Describes Mobile IP (a technology that allows a computer to move from one network to another without changing its IP address)
Discusses IP security and the security standard, IPsec
Revises the discussion of Ipv6 to incorporate the latest changes
Shows how to interconnect private intranets and the global Internet using Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Network Address Translation (NAT) technologies
Expands the description of IP multicasting to cover multicast routing protocols
Presents the Differentiated Services (DiffServe) scheme for classes of services as well at Path MTU discovery and routing for anonymous serial networks
Explains Random Early Discard (RED), which is now recommended for routers
Updates the coverage of all protocols to the latest versions, including RIP, IGMP, and SNMP

About the Author, Douglas E. Comer

Douglas E. Comer is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University and a Fellow of the ACM. He is the author of many best-selling books: the three-volume series, Internetworking with TCP/IP Computer Networks and Internets, Second Edition, and The Internet Book. Comer served as chairman of the DARPA Distributed Systems Architecture Board and the CSNET Technical Committees, and is a former member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).