Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Right Honourable Brian Wilson

Wouldn't It Be Nice by The Right Honourable Brian Wilson

This book discusses link-state routing protocols (OSPF and IS-IS), and the path-vector routing protocol (BGP). It covers their most identifying characteristics, operations, and the databases they maintain. Material is presented from a practicing engineer's perspective, linking theory and fundamental concepts to common practices and real-world examples. Every aspect of the book is written to reflect current best practices using real-world examples. The book begins with a detailed description of the OSPF area types and hierarchical routing, and the different types of routers used in an OSPF autonomous system. The author goes on to describe in detail the different OSPF packet types, and inbound and outbound processing of OSPF link-state advertisements (LSAs). Next, the book gives an overview of the main features of IS-IS. The author then discusses the two-level routing hierarchy for controlling the distribution of intra-domain (Level 1) and inter-domain (Level 2) routing information within an IS-IS routing domain. He then describes in detail IS-IS network address formats, IS-IS routing metrics, IS-IS packet types, IS-IS network types and adjacency formation, IS-IS LSDB and synchronization, and IS-IS authentication. The book then reviews the main concepts of path-vector routing protocols, and describes BGP packet types, BGP session states and Finite State Machine, BGP path attributes types, and BGP Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs).

• Focuses solely on link-state routing protocols (OSPF and IS-IS), and the only path-vector routing protocol in use today (BGP).
• Reviews the basic concepts underlying the design of IS-IS and provides a detailed description of IS-IS area types and hierarchical routing, and the different types of routers used by IS-IS.
• Discusses the two-level routing hierarchy for controlling the distribution of intra-domain (Level 1) and inter-domain (Level 2) routing information within an IS-IS routing domain.
• Describes in detail BGP packet types, BGP session states and Finite State Machine, BGP path attributes types, and BGP ASNs, includes a high-level view of the typical BGP router and its components, and inbound and outbound message processing.

James Aweya, PhD, is a chief research scientist at the Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center (EBTIC), Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has authored four books including this book and is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IE).

Wilson, Brian: - As a friend and workmate of Brian whom I have known for almost thirty years, it is a privilege to write this biography for Brian. Throughout his life, Brian has continuously increased his knowledge in a variety of fields. With his perceptive nature, it was no surprise when he breezed thought his MA (honours) degree in psychology. Brian also has accounting and management qualifications. I worked with him for approximately 25 years. Brian was a natural at investigation work being selected for a special technical assignment team. He enjoys the outdoors and sport. In our younger days, we had several competitive games of tennis. Brian's well-disguised and cunning backhand and the difficulty in playing it as the ball just slipped low and slow over the net will haunt me forever. One can speak easily with Brian. His mind and thinking run deep and he is well capable of covering the different aspects of reality and related characters that are covered in his books. Hence, I have continuously grown as a person through my discussions with Brian and through reading his books. Add in a great sense of humour and obvious enjoyment of life and family life and you have the mix for a very thought-provoking book. Keith Shand

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ISBN 13	9780060183134
ISBN 10	0060183136
Title	Wouldn't It Be Nice
Author	The Right Honourable Brian Wilson
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	1991-10-01
Number of pages	398
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