The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach

The view presented in The Internet and Its Protocols is at once broad and deep. It covers all the common protocols and how they combine to create the Internet in its totality. More importantly, it describes each one completely, examining the requirements it addresses and the exact means by which it does its job. These descriptions include message flows, full message formats, and message exchanges for normal and error operation. They are supported by numerous diagrams and tables.

This book's comparative approach gives you something more valuable: insight into the decisions you face as you build and maintain your network, network device, or network application. Author Adrian Farrel's experience and advice will dramatically smooth your path as you work to offer improved performance and a wider range of services.

* Provides comprehensive, in-depth, and comparative coverage of the Internet Protocol (both IPv4 and IPv6) and its many related technologies.
* Written for developers, operators, and managers, and designed to be used as both an overview and a reference.
* Discusses major concepts in traffic engineering, providing detailed looks at MPLS and GMPLS and how they control both IP and non-IP traffic.
* Covers protocols for governing routing and transport, and for managing switches, components, and the network as a whole, along with higher-level application protocols.
* Offers thoughtful guidance on choosing between protocols, selecting features within a protocol, and other service- and performance-related decisions.

《網際網路與其協議》一書的觀點既廣泛又深入。它涵蓋了所有常見的協議，以及它們如何結合在一起形成完整的網際網路。更重要的是，它完整地描述了每個協議，檢視它所解決的需求以及它完成工作的具體方式。這些描述包括消息流程、完整的消息格式以及正常和錯誤操作的消息交換。它們還有大量的圖表和表格作為支持。

這本書的比較方法為您提供了更有價值的東西：洞察您在建立和維護網絡、網絡設備或網絡應用程序時所面臨的決策。作者Adrian Farrel的經驗和建議將大大簡化您的工作，使您能夠提供更好的性能和更廣泛的服務。

* 提供了對網際網路協議（包括IPv4和IPv6）及其許多相關技術的全面、深入和比較性的覆蓋。
* 面向開發人員、運營商和管理人員，旨在作為概述和參考資料使用。
* 討論了流量工程的主要概念，詳細介紹了MPLS和GMPLS以及它們如何控制IP和非IP流量。
* 涵蓋了用於路由和傳輸的協議，以及用於管理交換機、組件和整個網絡的協議，還包括更高層次的應用協議。
* 對於選擇協議、在協議中選擇功能以及其他與服務和性能相關的決策提供了深思熟慮的指導。