Index B

B

Backbone Routers (BRs), 194, 224–25

Backplane design, 457–58

Backup power, 431

Bandwidth, 53

choices, 51

as critical resource, 474

managers, 488

optimizing, 472–87

Berkeley Sockets Multicast API, 244

Biometrics, 331–32

Bit-wise subnets, 138

Blackouts, 461

BOOTP, 92–95

defined, 92

DHCP concurrent use, 102

field definitions, 92–94

issues, 95

message format, 92–94

operations, 94–95

uses, 95

Boot protocols, 475

Border Gateway Multicast Protocol (BGMP), 288

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), 205–19

aggregation, 214

attributes, 212

backdoor routes, 215

BGP-4, 213

CIDR and aggregate addresses, 213–14

conceptual design, 209

decision algorithm, 211–12

default routes, 214–15

defined, 205

external (eBGP), 208, 209–10, 211

fields, 205–6

internal (iBGP), 208, 210–11

IRDP, 217

keep alive messages, 207

load balancing, 215–17

message types, 206–7

metrics, 212

Multicast (MBGP), 287

multihoming, 215–17

notification messages, 207

operation, 207–19

packet formats, 205–6

peering, 207–9

protocol stack, 205

route filtering/policy, 213

router discovery protocol selection, 217

routers, 207

routing session, 208

scalability, 213

symmetry, 215–17

update messages, 206–7

Brainstorming, 13

Breath of Life (BOFL) features, 424

Bridges, 41–42, 520

benefits, 47–48

broadcast storms and, 48

defined, 41

filtering/forwarding capabilities, 42

issues, 48–49

price/performance, 47

standards, 41

topological control with, 427

transparent, 48

See also Hardware

Broadcast

AppleTalk, 478

forwarding, 65, 221

relay, 221

sources, 476–78

storms, 48

traffic, reducing, 476–78

Broadcast addresses, 64–66

defined, 64

directed, 64–65

HostID, 65

limited, 64

performance issues, 66

subnet, 65

See also IP addressing

Brownouts, 460–61

Buffered repeaters, 39

Buffering, 232–33

input queuing, 232

output queuing, 233

shared memory, 233

Building blocks, 15–53

applications, 20–24

framework, 15–20

hardware, 37–50

physical connectivity, 50–53

protocols, 24–37

Building design, 466–67

Bump-in-the-Stack (BITS) implementation, 357

Bump-in-the-Wire (BITW) implementation, 357

Bus fabric, 230



Data Networks. Routing, Seurity, and Performance Optimization
ActionScripting in Flash MX
ISBN: N/A
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 117

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