IP Addressing and Subnetting, Including IPv6

529 Pages·1999·54.8 MB·English

by  J. D. Wegner

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Cameron Brandon (MCSE, CNE, CNA, MCSE+Internet, A+, Network+)
works as a Network Engineer/Administrator in Portland, Oregon, and he
specializes in Windows NT with BackOffice Integration. He helped in Intel
Corporation's large-scale migration at its Oregon facility to Windows NT.
Cameron completed all of his certifications in five months, demonstrating
that determination and a strong sense of direction are the key to success
in one's career.
Ryan Russell (CCNA, CCNP) has been employed in the networking field for
more than 10 years, including more than five years working with Cisco
equipment. He has held IT positions ranging from help desk support to
network design, providing him with a good perspective on the challenges
that face a network manager. Recently, Ryan has been doing mostly infor-
mation security work involving network security and firewalls. He has
completed his CCNP and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer
Science.
John Pherson (Microsoft MCSE and MCT, Novell Master CNE and Master
CNI, and Certified Cisco Systems Instructor), has more than 18 years of
technical-consulting and technical-management experience in the comput-
er industry, specializing in networking technologies and operating systems.
He also has a B.S. in Business Administration. John has been a member
of several CompTIA (Computer Industry Technology Association) commit-
tees responsible for the growth and direction of the A+ Certification. He is
also a contributing author to several books, including CCNA Study Guide
(Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1998) and the MCSE: Networking Essentials
Study Guide (Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1998). He is a member of American
Mensa, Ltd. John is currently employed as an Instructional Consultant at
Global Knowledge in Dallas, TX., and he also provides independent net-
work consulting services.
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J.D. Wegner is a founder and director of The Empowerment Group, Inc. He
has been working with computers for over 30 years. The last twelve of
those, he has been involved with the design, installation and support of
data networks. As an instructor and Course Director for Global Knowledge,
he has presented topics ranging from Internetworking with TCP/IP to Web
Security to IP Address Management to thousands of IT professionals in the
U.S. and abroad. His clients include many of the Fortune 500 as well as
several government agencies. He lives in Hickory, North Carolina with his
wife, Laurie, and their two children, David and Sarah.
Robert Rockell has been at Sprint Internet Services for the past 3 years. He
currently works in the Operations Engineering department, where he and
his group are responsible for top-level technical escalation of all Internet
operation problems. In addition, Rob runs an IPv6 network with over 50
customers attached. If interested, you can join the 6Bone through Rob's
network by writing him at [email protected].
Technical Editor
Marc Blanchet ([email protected]) is a network engineer work-
ing at Viagenie Inc. as a consultant in network security, network architec-
tures and electronic commerce for companies, organisations and govern-
ments. He has been involved in TCP/IP since 1983. Marc wrote a book in
French entitled TCP/IP Simpli.fii published at Iditions Logiques. At the
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), he has been involved in many
working groups, especially in IPv6 group, for which he wrote a few stan-
dard documents. One of those is about IPv6 address assignments. Marc is
also an architect of the IPv6 CA*Net network and the 6tap IPv6 exchange.
He is a regular speaker at conferences and gives courses about TCP/IP,
Security, IPv6 and other related subjects.
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contents
PREFACE xix
m yth is Rook is Necessary xx
Content of this Book xxi
Editor'sj Acknowledgments Mi
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