On 6/3/2012 12:42 PM, Trey Darley wrote:
At Tue, 29 May 2012 14:33:19 -0700,
Lynda wrote:
*Any* suggestions are welcome, including suggested resources, and I'll
probably just put this up on my site once I'm done, for others to refer to.
It may be way overkill for what you're after but since the only other
contribution was Jason's recommendation for the JUNOS Enterprise Switching
book (which *is* a good book but still vendor-specific) you might consider the
recently-published (November 2011) TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1, Second
Edition: The
Protocols (Kevin R. Fall, W. Richard Stevens). It's 31 flavors of kickass!
I had several off line suggestions, and appreciated them, and they were
mostly in this vein. A small part of my current outline (in absolutely
shalt not send no particular order) is below:
A contrast between circuit switching and packet switching, and why
packet switching ended up as the choice for TCP/IP and its predecessors.
A quick overview of what routing is (yes, really).
All the protocols, from SNA to DECNet, from Appletalk to NetBEUI, from
Token Ring to Netware... Well, you get the idea.
The OSI model (and my opinions on why it failed *cough* committee *cough*).
The purpose and use of ICMP, including redirects, hop decrements, and etc...
Some religion will creep in.
"Source routing is evil. Thou shalt not send source route packets. Thou
shalt not accept source route packets."
"Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send."
Classful routing, and CIDR, and multicast, and unicast, and broadcast,
and anycast, and IPv4/IPv6...
(I really miss the MBONE, which all this has reminded me of.) Nice to
see that Stevens is being updated. I loved those books. Excuse me. I
still love those books. I've dumped many technical books since I
retired, but the six volumes of Stevens will always have an honored home
(along with Knuth and a few others, including Cricket Liu).
The beginnings of host names, the 10,000 line hosts file, predecessors
to DNS (yes, there were some), and DNS (including the
revelation/revolution that was BIND 8).
There's more, but that's a start.
--
A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately
described with pictures.
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