Table of Contents - Chapter 13

WAN Technologies And Routing


13.1 Introduction 201
13.2 Large Networks And Wide Areas 201
13.3 Packet Switches 202
13.4 Forming A WAN 203
13.5 Store And Forward 204
13.6 Physical Addressing In A WAN 205
13.7 Next-Hop Forwarding 205
13.8 Source Independence 207
13.9 Relationship Of Hierarchical Addresses To Routing 207
13.10 Routing In A WAN 208
13.11 Use Of Default Routes 210
13.12 Routing Table Computation 211
13.13 Shortest Path Computation In A Graph 211
13.14 Distributed Route Computation 213
13.15 Distance Vector Routing 213
13.16 Link-State Routing (SPF) 216
13.17 Example WAN Technologies 216
13.17.1 ARPANET 216
13.17.2 X.25 216
13.17.3 Frame Relay 217
13.17.4 SMDS 217
13.17.5 ATM 218
13.18 Summary 218
Exercises 219