Network Protocols: Signature Edition (MCGRAW-HILL SIGNATURE SERIES) - Softcover

Naugle, Matthew G.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0070466033 ISBN 13: 9780070466036

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 1998

Synopsis

Without protocols, the Internet as well as LANs, WANs, and other networks would stop dead. And without this best-selling handbook, network managers would lack the only convenient, single-source reference to the plethora of protocols that govern cyberspace. This expanded edition contains all the facts on protocols such as TCP/IP, Gigabit Ethernet, IPv6, RSVP, and RTSP as well as Novell NetWare, Ethernet, Token Ring, AppleTalk, and other workhorses. It's a Signature EditionÑan imprint reserved for updates of top-selling books by the best authorities in the field.

About this title

About the Author

Matthew Naugle is Director of Engineering at Zipcom, Raleigh, NC. He has also held senior positions at 3 Com Corporation, Proteon, and Bay Networks. Naugle is the author of McGraw-Hill's Local Area Networking, 2/e.

From the Back Cover

The best-selling book that solves all your network protocol problems. Network managers and administrators are expected to have a working knowledge of all the protocols that have evolved since the early 1980s for LANs, WANs, and the Internet. That's a lot of data to have at your fingertips. But rest easy. It's all covered here, in the popular one-stop reference that's as convenient as it is complete. Users love this handbook because it covers virtually every network protocol in one easy-to-read volume. Better yet, it's been updated and expanded to bring you detailed coverage of: the latest developments in TCP/IP, ISDN, Frame Relay, and PPP; Fiber Data Distributed Interface; Fast Ethernet or 100BaseT; Gigabit Ethernet; Novell NetWare, including NetWare 4.x; WAN protocols, including FR Network Topology. Packed with how-to information, Network Protocols also delivers all the facts on IPv6, Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP), and Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), as well as Token Ring, AppleTalk, XNS, DECnet, LAT, and other workhorses.

For practical, hands-on information you'll turn to again and again, no other network protocl guide even comes close. Network Protocols in a computing classic, honored with inclusion in The Signature Series because it is quite simply the best reference ever written on the subject--a top-seller among computing references. This Signature Edition brings this excellent work to a wider audience.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0070466033
• ISBN 13: 9780070466036
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 953