Further Reading F-1

Appendix F

Further Reading

Angell, David. ISDN for Dummies, Foster City, CA: IDG Books Worldwide, 1995. Thorough introduction to ISDN for beginners.

Apple Computer, Inc. AppleTalk Network System Overview. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.; 1989.

Apple Computer, Inc. Planning and Managing AppleTalk Networks. Reading, Massachusetts: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc.; 1991.

Black, U. Data Networks: Concepts, Theory and Practice. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall; 1989.

Black, U. Physical Level Interfaces and Protocols. Los Alamitos, California: IEEE Computer Society Press; 1988.

Black, Uyless. Emerging Communications Technologies, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: PTR Prentice Hall, 1994. Describes how emerging communications technologies, including ISDN and Frame Relay operate and where they fit in a computer/communications network.

Case, J.D., J.R. Davins, M.S. Fedor, and M.L. Schoffstall. "Network Management and the Design of SNMP." ConneXions: The Interoperability Report, Vol. 3: March 1989.

Case, J.D., J.R. Davins, M.S. Fedor, and M.L. Schoffstall. "Introduction to the Simple Gateway Monitoring Protocol." IEEE Network: March 1988."

Chapman, D. Brent and Elizabeth D. Zwicky. Building Internet Firewalls, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1995. Dense and technical, but Chapter 6 provides a basic introduction to packet filtering.

Chapman, D. Brent. “Network (In)Security Through IP Packet Filtering,” paper available from Great Circle Associates, 1057 West Dana Street, Mountain View, CA 94041

Chappell, L. Novell's Guide to NetWare LAN Analysis. San Jose, California: Novell Press; 1993.

Clark, W. "SNA Internetworking." ConneXions: The Interoperability Report, Vol. 6, No. 3: March 1992.

Coltun, R. "OSPF: An Internet Routing Protocol." ConneXions: The Interoperability Report, Vol. 3, No. 8: August 1989.

Comer, D.E. Internetworking with TCP/IP: Principles, Protocols, and Architecture, Vol. I, 2nd ed. Englewood

Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall; 1991.

Davidson, J. An Introduction to TCP/IP. New York, New York: Springer-Verlag; 1992.

Ferrari, D. Computer Systems Performance Evaluation. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice Hall; 1978.

Garcia-Luna-Aceves, J.J. "Loop-Free Routing Using Diffusing Computations." Publication pending in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1993.

Garfinkel, Simson. PGP: Pretty Good Privacy, Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly & Associates, 1991. A guide to the free data encryption program PGP and the issues surrounding encryption.

Green, J.K. Telecommunications, 2nd ed. Homewood, Illinois: Business One Irwin; 1992.

Hagans, R. "Components of OSI: ES-IS Routing." ConneXions: The Interoperability Report, Vol. 3, No. 8: August 1989.

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Netopia R2121 manual Appendix F Further Reading

R2121 specifications

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