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Summary

This chapter offered a brief high-level overview of modern WAN access approaches for possible deployment in routing gateways. In addition, this chapter covered some of the WAN technologies that a network might connect to in order to create Internet or VPN access. It also provided some technology comparisons.



    		Command Syntax Conventions
    		Chapter 1. Operating System Issues and Features-The Big Picture
    		Chapter 2. User-Space Routing Software
    		Chapter 3. Kernel Requirements for a Full-Featured Lab
    		Chapter 4. Gateway WAN/Metro Interfaces
    		Dial-on-Demand Routing: Analog and ISDN Dialup
    		Wireless Technologies
    		SDH/SONET
    		Powerline Communications
    		Ethernet to the Home/Premises
    		Cisco Long-Reach Ethernet (LRE)
    		Synchronous Serial Interface and PRIs
    		ATM Interfaces
    		Cable Access (Ethernet Interfaces)
    		DSL Access
    		Lab 4-1: Synchronous Serial Connection Setup
    		Exercise 4-1: Frame Relay Point-to-Multipoint Setup
    		Summary
    		Recommended Reading
    		Chapter 5. Ethernet and VLANs
    		Chapter 6. The Analyzer Toolbox, DHCP, and CDP
    		Chapter 7. The UNIX Routing and ARP Tables
    		Chapter 8. Static Routing Concepts
    		Chapter 9. Dynamic Routing Protocols-Interior Gateway Protocols
    		Chapter 10. ISP Connectivity with BGPv4-An Exterior Gateway Path-Vector Routing Protocol for Interdomain Routing
    		Chapter 11. VPN Technologies, Tunnel Interfaces, and Architectures
    		Chapter 12. Designing for High Availability
    		Chapter 13. Policy Routing, Bandwidth Management, and QoS
    		Chapter 14. Multicast Architectures
    		Chapter 15. Network Address Translation
    		Appendix A. UNIX Kernel Configuration Files
    		Appendix B. The FreeBSD Netgraph Facility