Introduction States and Connections QoS and Topology Delay Sources Flows Another Kind of Policing: Connection Admission Control
PSTN, ISDN, and ATM
RSVP Distinct and Shared Reservations Background Part 1: Soft State Background Part 2: The Role of WFQ RSVP/WFQ Interactions with BE Configuring WFQ WFQ and Frame Relay RSVP: Functionality Basic RSVP Configuration RSVP: Topology RSVP Commands First Steps toward Traffic Engineering
Static Routing of Specific Traffic
Using Policy-Based Routing A Special Case Policy Routing Performance Next Hop Verification
Controlling Routing Updates at Interfaces Large Distribution Router Applications Controlling the Advertising of Routes in Routing Updates Special Cases in Forwarding RIBs, FIBs, and Caches
Load Balancing Round Robin Unequal-Cost Load Balancing Per Destination Source-Destination Hash Aha! But There's the Load Parameter in (E)IGRP
Fragmentation Where and When to Drop Jitter, Fragmentation, and Dejittering Platform-Dependent Queuing Mechanisms How Important Are Large MTUs? MTU Management to Avoid Undesired Fragmentation ATM Segmentation X.25 Fragmentation Frame Relay Fragmentation X.25 Packet Level on Dedicated Links?
Traceroute and Ping May Give Different Results Know When to Trust Ping/Traceroute Performance Information
Forwarding Delay from Router Ingress to Egress Forwarding Overhead and Processor Loading Proactive Congestion Management with RED Reactive Congestion Management and Scheduling Outgoing Traffic Finding the Queuing Mechanism
Priority Queuing Configuring Priority Queuing
Custom Queuing (CQ) Basic CQ Operation Basic CQ Configuration A Special Case
Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing (CBWFQ)
Low-Latency Queuing Conclusion References
Must-Read for Certification
Further Reading