TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols

"What makes this book unique, in my estimation, is the level of detail and attention to history. It provides background and a sense for the ways in which solutions to networking problems have evolved. It is relentless in its effort to achieve precision and to expose remaining problem areas. 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. The authors deserve credit for a thorough rendering of the technology of todays Internet."

-- Vint Cerf

Kevin R. Fall, PhD, is a principal engineer at Intel Labs and Fellow of the IEEE. He has been working with UNIX and TCP/IP for more than twenty-five years and is a former member of the Internet Architecture Board. He is also co-chair of the Delay Tolerant Networking Research Group (DTNRG), a group within the Internet Research Task Force exploring networking in challenged environments.

Foreword xxv

Preface to the Second Edition xxvii

Adapted Preface to the First Edition xxxiii

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 LANsIEEE 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 Devices IPv4 Add...