Index M

M

MAC sublayer, 28–29

Maintenance service levels, 434

Management Information Services (MIS), 633, 663

Manager-of-Manager (MoM) concepts, 678

Man-In-The-Middle attacks, 307

Matrix group, 659

MBone, 283–87

access, 285

defined, 283

distribution threshold, 286

example applications, 286–87

modified tunnel topology, 286

routers and links, 284

routing, 285–86

tunnel, 285

Mean Time Between Service Outages (MTBSO), 412

Mean Time To Repair (MTTR), 412, 413

Media and Storage Extensions (MSE), 544

Media Attachment Units (MAUs), 38–39

defined, 38

types of, 39

See also Hardware

Medium Access Control (MAC) addresses, 19, 31

mapping multicasts onto, 241

parts of, 19

physical, 443

virtual, 443

Meshing

internal, 423–24

point-to-point, 420–22

Metrics

BGP, 212

cache performance, 534–35

OSPF, 191

routing, 166–67

SLA monitoring, 569–70

MIB, 640–44

browsers, 670–71

compiler, 644

defined, 640

MIB-I, 642, 643

MIB-II, 642–43, 680

RMON, 657–61

tree hierarchy, 641

See also SNMP

Microcom Network Protocol (MNP), 484

Microsoft LAN Manager, 674

Mid-Level Manager (MLM) model, 676–77

Midplane design, 457

Mixers, 291, 292

Modems

access, 313

defined, 40

standards, 40

Multicast

addresses, 77

AppleTalk, 477–78

in application optimization, 519–20

border routers, 283

deployment issues, 247–52

distribution, 262–63

with expanding ring search, 253–54

group registration, 256–64

groups, 240–41

guaranteed delivery, 294

internetwork topology requirement, 250

interoperability, 282–87

leaking in LAN environment, 248

local area deployment issues, 247–49

mapping, on MAC addresses, 241

network design, 239–300

packets, constraining scope of, 245–46

with pruning and grafting, 253

QoS, 294–95

reliable, 295–98

routing protocols, 254–56

with RPF, 252–53

RSVP operations, 612–13

service management, 298

sources, 476–78

spanning tree, 251

summary, 299–300

support, 240

techniques, 252–54

traffic engineering, 294

wide area deployment issues, 249–52

Multicast applications

Berkeley Sockets Multicast API, 244

design and implementation issues, 245–47

design guidelines, 243–47

IP, 244–45

legacy unicast, enabling, 245

many-to-many model, 242

models, 241–43

one-to-many model, 242

Open Transport API, 244

reliable unicast model, 242

scheduling, 246

unreliable broadcast model, 242–43

WinSock API, 244

Multicast BGP (MBGP), 287

Multicast group addresses, 66–68

host groups, 66–67

mapping, 68

well-known, 67

See also IP addressing

Multicast groups

joining, 261

leaving, 261–62

membership tables, building, 260–61

registration, 256–64

Multicast OSPF, 272–75

defined, 272

design issues, 275

interoperability, 282

message formats, 273

multicast extensions, 272

operation, 273–75

routers, 272, 273

Multicast routing, 264–89

with CBT, 281–82

with DVMRP, 264–72

interdomain, 287–89

with MOSPF, 272–75

with PIM, 275–81

Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP), 288

Multicast support protocols, 289–94

RTCP, 292–93

RTP, 289–92

RTSP, 293–94

Multihoming, 215–17

Multi-Link PPP (MLPPP), 168

Multinetting, 220–21

applications, 221

defined, 220

Multipath backplane design, 457

Multiprotocol bridge router, 43–44

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), 386, 564, 582–87

benefits, 586–87

CBR with, 627

core, 586–87

defined, 573, 574, 582

efficiency, 582

Layer 3 routing, 582

operation, 583–84

performance considerations, 585–86

scalability, 582

summary, 628–29

target deployment, 583

traffic engineering with, 584–85

Murphy's Law, 393