Ppp Design and Debugging

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Book Description
PPP Design and Debugging offers network administrators, technicians, and programmers the perfect introduction and detailed guide to working with PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol), now the most widely used Internet connection technology. An excellent companion to the official standards documents, this comprehensive book covers PPP in depth, from the bits and bytes transmitted up through its connections to other networking software. It shows how to keep PPP running smoothly and efficiently, and offers the most detailed information available on debugging PPP and maintaining uninterrupted network connections.

This convenient volume follows PPP through its three main functions: connecting, authenticating, and sending data to the network. It provides an overview of PPP design and operation-including link-level transmission and reception of data-as well as a look at how PPP works with other networking protocols. Each PPP protocol is described in depth, including: LCP (Link Control Protocol); the network layer protocols that communicate with IP, AppleTalk, SNA, OSI, and others; CCP (Compression Control Protocol) and ECP (Encryption Control Protocol). In addition, the increasingly important topic of bandwidth management is discussed.

You will find thorough coverage of PPP debugging techniques that show you how to isolate and solve connection problems. In particular, the book examines a topic of critical concern: how to get packet traces out of common PPP implementations.

Plenty of code, implementation strategies, and expert advice throughout make this book an invaluable resource for anyone who works with PPP.

Synopsis
"PPP Design and Debugging" involves PPP, Point-to-Point Protocol, the most widely used Internet connection technology. Following the three functions of the protocol--connecting, identifying, and sending data to the network--this book tells readers how to keep PPP running efficiently and effectively and gives a wide variety of implementation strategies, plenty of code, and tips. .

About the Author
James Carlson spent six years developing and debugging remote access software at the Annex Development Group of Xylogics, now a part of Bay Networks, where he developed portions of the Annex implementation of PPP. Currently he works for IronBridge Networks, a startup company at the leading edge of network technology TOC Contents Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 PPP Communication Basics Chapter 3 Negotiation, LCP, and Authentication Chapter 4 The Network Layer Protocols Chapter 5 The Transforming Layers Chapter 6 Bandwidth Management Chapter 7 Interpreting Traces Chapter 8 Resources Appendix A: AHDLC Implementation Appendix B: MP Fragmentation Appendix C: PPP RFCs Appendix D: Decimal, Hexadecimal, Octal, and Standard Characters Index

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