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IP Network Design Guide Martin W. Murhammer, Kok-Keong Lee, Payam Motallebi, Paolo Borghi, Karl Wozabal

International Technical Support Organization http://www.redbooks.ibm.com

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International Technical Support Organization IP Network Design Guide June 1999

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Take Note! Before using this information and the product it supports, be sure to read the general information in Appendix C, “Special Notices” on page 287.

Second Edition (June 1999) This edition applies to Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in general and selected IBM and OEM implementations thereof. Comments may be addressed to: IBM Corporation, International Technical Support Organization Dept. HZ8 Building 678 P.O. Box 12195 Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2195 When you send information to IBM, you grant IBM a non-exclusive right to use or distribute the information in any way it believes appropriate without incurring any obligation to you. © Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 1995 1999. All rights reserved. Note to U.S Government Users - Documentation related to restricted rights - Use, duplication or disclosure is subject to restrictions set forth in GSA ADP Schedule Contract with IBM Corp.

Contents Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix How This Book Is Organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix The Team That Wrote This Redbook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x Comments Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Chapter 1. Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 The Internet Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.1 A Brief History of the Internet and IP Technologies . . . . 1.1.2 The Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Model . . . . . . 1.1.3 The TCP/IP Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.4 The Need for Design in IP Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1.5 Designing an IP Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2 Application Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.1 Bandwidth Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.2 Performance Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.3 Protocols Required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.4 Quality of Service/Type of Service (QoS/ToS) . . . . . . . . 1.2.5 Sensitivity to Packet Loss and Delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.6 Multicast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.7 Proxy-Enabled . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.8 Directory Needs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.9 Distributed Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.10 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.2.11 Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 Platform Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.4 Infrastructure Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.5 The Perfect Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Chapter 3. Address, Name and Network Management . . . . . . . . 3.1 Address Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.1 IP Addresses and Address Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.2 Special Case Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.3 Subnets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.4 IP Address Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.5 IP Address Exhaustion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.6 Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1.7 The Next Generation of the Internet Address IPv6, IPng . . 3.1.8 Address Management Design Considerations . . . . . . . . . . 3.2 Address Assignment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.1 Static . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.2 Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.3 Bootstrap Protocol (BootP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.4 Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) . . . . . . . . . . 3.3 Name Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.1 Static Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.2 The Domain Name System (DNS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.3 Dynamic Domain Name System (DDNS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.4 DNS Security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.5 Does The Network Need DNS? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.6 Domain Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.7 A Few Words on Creating Subdomains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.8 A Note on Naming Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.9 Registering An Organization’s Domain Name . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.10 Dynamic DNS Names (DDNS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.11 Microsoft Windows Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.3.12 Final Word On DNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4 Network Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4.1 The Various Disciplines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4.2 The Mechanics of Network Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.4.3 The Effects of Network Management on Networks . . . . . . . 3.4.4 The Management Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Chapter 5. Remote Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1 Remote Access Environments . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1.1 Remote-to-Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1.2 Remote-to-LAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1.3 LAN-to-Remote . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.1.4 LAN-to-LAN. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2 Remote Access Technologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.1 Remote Control Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.2 Remote Client Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.3 Remote Node Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.4 Remote Dial Access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.5 Dial Scenario Design. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.6 Remote Access Authentication Protocols 5.2.7 Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP) 5.2.8 Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.2.9 Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) . . . . . 5.2.10 VPN Remote User Access. . . . . . . . . . .

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