- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (19 Dec 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201185393
- ISBN-13: 978-0201185393
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 18.8 x 0.8 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,805,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Now, the industry's #1 hands-on PPP developer's guide has been updated to reflect the latest PPP advances, including SONET/SDH, optical PPP links, the use of PPP in telecommunications, and Linux-based PPP implementation -- a topic of exceptionally hot interest. In this book, leading network software architect James Carlson explains how PPP links operate, in depth, so developers can build more effective PPP implementations, and troubleshoot failures more effectively. Readers will learn how to implement and extend PPP in many environments, including Linux and UNIX. Carlson introduces PPP's growing role in telecommunications, including optical PPP links, PPP's relationship with SONET/SDH, and more. He also explains PPP's relationships to OSPF and other protocols, including PPP/L2TP integration in virtual private networks. The accompanying CD-ROM contains an extensive PPP resource library, including all relevant RFCs, several PPP implementations, and other PPP-related documentation.
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Audience for PPP Design and Debugging
This book was written for the system designer, network administrator, or technical support specialist who needs to understand PPP at a byte-by-byte level. It covers the line coding techniques, the negotiation model, and the specific protocols that it supports. This book does not cover the configuration or use of any particular implementation in much detail -- there are already a number of books which do this. Instead, it sorts through the sometimes conflicting and often confusing array of standards which comprise PPP and ties them together in a coherent whole. If you are designing a PPP implementation, debugging a link using a protocol analyzer, or are curious about how an important part of the Internet works, then this book is for you.
This book was written for the system designer, network administrator, or technical support specialist who needs to understand PPP at a byte-by-byte level. It covers the line coding techniques, the negotiation model, and the specific protocols that it supports. This book does not cover the configuration or use of any particular implementation in much detail -- there are already a number of books which do this. Instead, it sorts through the sometimes conflicting and often confusing array of standards which comprise PPP and ties them together in a coherent whole. If you are designing a PPP implementation, debugging a link using a protocol analyzer, or are curious about how an important part of the Internet works, then this book is for you.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
right on the mark
23 May 1998
Format:Paperback
The author motivates the design of the PPP protocol extremely well, and provides an intelligible roadmap to the RFCs and the vendor-specific "standards". Beyond that, he carefully points out shortcomings and misfeatures in various pieces of the PPP design and in various common PPP implementations, making the book far more useful and interesting than a "mere" reference on the subject would have been. (Not surprisingly, the shortcomings tend to exist in the proprietary PPP variants and implementations rather than in the open-standard and open-source ones...)
If your only reason for picking up the book is because you want to understand the difference between SLIP and PPP, you'll get more than you bargained for. But if you want or need to understand how PPP works, I can't imagine a better book than this one. The author guides the reader through the highly technical subject matter with satisfying authority. His delivery is strengthened by the exceptional editing and presentation of the publishers.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Essential background and overview
17 Feb 1998
Format:Paperback
This book provides essential background and overview for PPP. It provides the glue that is needed to bring together all of the many RFCs and standards that comprise PPP. I recently started working on developing a PPP implementation. I'd been "out" of PPP for about a year and spending a few hours reading this book brought me up to date, saving days of reading and cross-checking RFCs, trying to figure out what is and is not relevant.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
PPP explained and more..
27 July 2000
Format:Paperback
During my first job right out of grad school, I needed to debug PPP a lot on cisco routers and it gave me a good understanding of the subject.
Cisco's web site has enough info on debuggin PPP and this books goes in conjuction with it along with the relevant RFCs. I didnt find any other book addressing the debugging issues addressed in this book.
This book truly shows what an elegant protocol PPP is.
James is also an active contributor on the PPP news group and could be great help if you have questions!
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