Routing Bibliography: Just books that have something to do with the subject (there are more than there used to be though) : the big 4 first: (Huitema, Perlman, Halabi, Moy) I consider these four books the core nucleus of a reference library for IP routing and related topics. 1. Routing in the Internet, Christian Huitema, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-022647-5, 1999. 2nd edition. Introduction to Inet routing protocols including IGPs, EGPs, CIDR, multicasting, mobility, qos/resource reservation. Haven't seen a better book on said subject. If you are Inet oriented, I would choose (reluctantly) this book over Perlman's routing book. 2. Interconnections: Bridges, Routers, Switches, and Internetworking Protocols, 2nd edition. Radia Perlmann. 2000. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63448-1. Excellent book. Perlman has wit, pluck, and makes a dry by definition topic, not so dry. Talks about algorithms for bridges/routers, routing protocols, even security. Discusses details of source bridging, spanning tree bridges, ES-IS, arp, OSI CLNP, IP, routing protocols. Includes both Inet and ISO/OSI thinking. 3. Internet Routing Architectures. Bassam Halabi. 1997. Cisco Press. ISBN 1-56205-652-2 Focuses on mostly BGP and wide-area routing. Has cisco config examples in it. Probably a must for those slinging BGP configs on Cisco routers. 4. OSPF, Anatomy of an Internet Routing Protocol. John Moy. 1998. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63472-4. New and a much needed in-depth intro to a complex routing protocol. Also has a useful chapter on debug tools for routing. Very well written. Title is somewhat misleading as it has good summary chapters in it on multicast routing and BGP as well. This is a most excellent book. ------------------------------------------------------- Other books that are related and may be of interest: 5. Switching in IP Networks. Davie/Doolan/Rekhter. 1998. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. ISBN 1-55860-505-3 How ATM switching has changed the IP routing world view (even though lan-based ATM may not survive in classical form). Very interesting and thought provoking book on clever things one can do with tags be they ATM or ethernet. Background for IETF MPLS work. 6. Routing in Communications Networks. Martha Steenstrup. Prentice-Hall, 1995. ISBN 0-13-010752-2 Overview chapters by different authors on different theoretical (or not) routing areas. 7. Managing IP Networks. Scott M. Ballew. O'Reilly. 1997. ISBN 1-56592-320-0 New-ish. Cisco oriented as in "so you just got a cisco and now you have to configure it". More practical and less theory of course. Typical ORA book but this time on hacking cisco configs, as opposed to hacking perl... 8. Advanced IP Routing in Cisco Networks Terry Slattery, and Bill Burton, McGraw Hill, 2000, ISBN 0-07-212591-8. 2nd edition, How to config it ... for cisco routers. static routing, RIPv1/v2, IS-IS, IGRP, OSPF, BGP, NAT, etc. 9. Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture. Bollapragada, et. al. Cisco Press, 2000. IOS internals ... This book is about what happen inside Cisco routers, various caching and fast forwarding strategies. ISBN 1578701813 10. more cisco config books. Cisco Press has started publishing many books (of varying quality) on routing with the emphasis on how to make cisco routers do various routing tasks. I am not recommending any of these - just pointing out their existance. Use your own judgement. These books will in general include Cisco configuration examples. A couple of examples: 8.1 Routing TCP/IP, Volume 1. Jeff Doyle. Chapters include: Basic Concepts, TCP/IP Review, Static Routing, Dynamic Routing Protocols, RIP, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, Route Redistribution, Default Routes and On-Demand Routing, Route Filtering, Route Maps, Tutorial: Access Lists 8.2 Advanced Cisco Router Configuration. Editor: Laura Chappell Includes Chapters on: Queuing, subnet masks, OSPF, EIGRP, dial-on-demand, BGP 8.3 Cisco Router OSPF, William Parkhurst.