Best book for routing protocols

[georgew]

What's a good book for learning the routing protocols?

I tried to set-up RIP, and it works, untill a reboot a machine and everything falls apart.

I know zebra is documented on the net, but not very well. There is no documentation available with StarOS, and the hints in the forums don't actually explain anything, or go into enough detail as to what I can do to make it stable... there are lots of options, what are they and what do they do?

I'm hoping to find something that does more than show a suggested config without any explanation.

I got rip working at one point, on a point to point link. As soon as I moved to an ethernet based network, it stopped passing subnet routes, and started passing host routes to the ip's on the interface, but not to the ip's connected on the subnet. And after following the directions present in the forums, it got worse. I can't follow any zebra directions, as they tell me to edit files I have no access to.

Rip seems to make too many assumptions, and envokes odd behavior, and so I probably need to use OSPF, but the OSPF hints in the forums are without enough explanation to be useful. Most of the documentation on the net is focused on bugs, it all assums you know how to properly configure something to start with.

So perhaps a good book would do it. Any suggestions?

[lonnie]

OSPF Network Design Solutions, Second Edition
by Thomas M Thomas II. List price $60.00


Hardcover: 768 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press; 2 edition (April 10, 2003)
ISBN: 1587050323
Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 x 1.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds.
This book is awesome and shows MANY practical examples and even goes into designing your IP addressing scheme from the very beginning. It gives all the basics on routing, subnet design and it is especially good on OSPF setup. I have found much in this book and highly recommend it. My network is better as a result.

[lonnie]

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/tk480/tsd_technology_support_sub-protocol_home.html

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_white_paper09186a0080094e9e.shtml

These are great links for OSPF as well.

[valenti]

Am I correct that OLSR is now the preferred routing protocol for StarOS?

Are there books out on that yet? (I'm reading the olsr.org site and RFC, but different approaches might be good)

Is OSPF important enough that I should try to wade thru a 700 page book on it? From my current understanding, I would only be using OSPF at the two routers that connect to my bandwidth providers.

[lonnie]

We like OLSR. OSPF has been trouble but some people have great success with it. RIP is very easy.

We will be working towrads getting OLSR to talk with Quagga and share route info, and that will make it truly useful. Not there yet, so keep watching for that in the Fall of 2007.

[c.davis]

Another good read is the 'Linux Network Administrators Guide', (NAG).
Great for fundamentals, Q&A, etc. Detailed enough for someone to start from nothing to creating a great network.
If I remember correctly, the PDF version prints out to about 800 or 900 pages.

A great reference if nothing else and certainly worth the bookshelf space.

http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_network/

I know Lonnie has mentioned this book more than once, but it is still the ultimate book and certainly worth mentioning again, 'The Complete FreeBSD'. Don't get confused about the FreeBSD part of the title, this book is the ultimate reference for anyone who wants to know anything about computers, protocols, etc... A MUST HAVE for anyones bookshelf.

http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/