TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, Rough Cuts, 2nd Edition

Description

This is the Rough Cut version of the printed book.

“For an engineer determined to refine and secure Internet operation or to explore alternative solutions to persistent problems, the insights provided by this book will be invaluable.”

TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, Second Edition, is a detailed and visual guide to today’s TCP/IP protocol suite. Fully updated for the newest innovations, it demonstrates each protocol in action through realistic examples from modern Linux, Windows, and Mac OS environments. There’s no better way to discover why TCP/IP works as it does, how it reacts to common conditions, and how to apply it in your own applications and networks.

Building on the late W. Richard Stevens’ classic first edition, author Kevin R. Fall adds his cutting-edge experience as a leader in TCP/IP protocol research, updating the book to fully reflect the latest protocols and best practices. He first introduces TCP/IP’s core goals and architectural concepts, showing how they can robustly connect diverse networks and support multiple services running concurrently. Next, he carefully explains Internet addressing in both IPv4 and IPv6 networks. Then, he  walks through TCP/IP’s structure and function from the bottom up: from link layer protocols–such as Ethernet and Wi-Fi–through network, transport, and application layers.

Fall thoroughly introduces ARP, DHCP, NAT, firewalls, ICMPv4/ICMPv6, broadcasting, multicasting, UDP, DNS, and much more. He offers extensive coverage of reliable transport and TCP, including connection management, timeout, retransmission, interactive data flow, and congestion control. Finally, he introduces the basics of security and cryptography, and illuminates the crucial modern protocols for protecting security and privacy, including EAP, IPsec, TLS, DNSSEC, and DKIM. Whatever your TCP/IP experience, this book will help you gain a deeper, more intuitive understanding of the entire protocol suite so you can build better applications and run more reliable, efficient networks.

Sample Content

Table of Contents

Foreword xxv

1.1 Architectural Principles 2

1.2 Design and Implementation 8

1.3 The Architecture and Protocols of the TCP/IP Suite 13

1.4 Internets, Intranets, and Extranets 19

1.5 Designing Applications 20

1.6 Standardization Process 22

1.7 Implementations and Software Distributions 24

1.8 Attacks Involving the Internet Architecture 25

1.9 Summary 26

1.10 References 28

2.1 Introduction 31

2.2 Expressing IP Addresses 32

2.3 Basic IP Address Structure 34

2.4 CIDR and Aggregation 46

2.5 Special-Use Addresses 50

2.6 Allocation 62

2.7 Unicast Address Assignment 65

2.8 Attacks Involving IP Addresses 70

2.9 Summary 71

2.10 References 72

3.1 Introduction 79

3.2 Ethernet and the IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards 80

3.3 Full Duplex, Power Save, Autonegotiation, and 802.1X Flow Control 94

3.4 Bridges and Switches 98

3.5 Wireless LANs—IEEE 802.11(Wi-Fi) 111

3.6 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) 130

3.7 Loopback 145

3.8 MTU and Path MTU 148

3.9 Tunneling Basics 149

3.10 Attacks on the Link Layer 154

3.11 Summary 156

3.12 References 157

4.1 Introduction 165

4.2 An Example 166

4.3 ARP Cache 169

4.4 ARP Frame Format 170

4.5 ARP Examples 171

4.6 ARP Cache Timeout 174

4.7 Proxy ARP 174

4.8 Gratuitous ARP and Address Conflict Detection (ACD) 175

4.9 The arp Command 177

4.10 Using ARP to Set an Embedded Device’s IPv4 Address 178

4.11 Attacks Involving ARP 178

4.12 Summary 179

4.13 References 179

5.1 Introduction 181

5.2 IPv4 and IPv6 Headers 183

5.3 IPv6 Extension Headers 194

5.4 IP Forwarding 208

5.5 Mobile IP 215

5.6 Host Processing of IP Datagrams 220

5.7 Attacks Involving IP 226

5.8 Summary 226

5.9 References 228