Managing Internetworks with SNMP, Second Edition, is an invaluable guide for all network managers and administrators who maintain a complex internetwork. This comprehensive reference provides a technical understanding and practical application of SNMP, the protocol developed by the Internet community to simplify the management of internetworks. In addition to covering the latest revisions to SNMP version 2, this edition covers RMON and RMON2, including both the Ethernet and Token Ring versions. Packed with illustrations, case studies, and helpful examples, this book provides the techniques and know-how you need to maintain a productive network using the SNMP protocol. The CD-ROM contains more than 160 useful network management-related documents from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), including the standards defining the SNMP and its architecture, RMON and RMON2, plus management information bases (MIBs) supporting LAN, MAN, and WAN systems. If you manage an internetwork, this comprehensive reference belongs on your desk!

Troubleshooting TCP/IP

by Mark Miller

Published 15 March 1995
This text teaches the network professional-system engineer, network administrator, designer and CIO to use TCP/IP with the internet, incorporate broadband architectures with TCP/IP and the internet protocols and troubleshoot the Local Network connection including Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI LAN. Miller combines networking theory, protocol analysis, case studies and standards documentation in a package useful to network management personnel. It includes approximately 2000 standards documents on the accompanying CD, with BCPs (Best Current Practices), FYI communications, IMRs (Internet Monthly Reports) and RFCs referred to in the text.

Implementing IPv6

by Mark Miller

Published 1 December 1997
If you are a network manager transitioning from an older Internet Protocol to Internet Protocol version 6, you know that version 6 includes enhancements to maintain the network efficiency required by increasing traffic. Implementing IPv6, 2nd Edition is written to facilitate this transition by presenting the following: Shortcomings of IPv4 and the resulting functions and specifications of IPv6 Architecture of IPv6Enhancements to support systems required for IPv6Intranetwork communication and issues surrounding support for local networksRouting issues and enhancements to RIP, OSPF, and BGPOperating system enhancements, application programming interfaces, and securityNetwork management and transition strategies The enclosed CD-ROM includes the Request for Comments documents for IPv6 and the related protocols that define IPv6 standards.