List of Figures

• Stacked model of protocol services
• Communication example between two talking nodes
• Service User and Service Provider view
• Network view
• From Network view to distributed protocol stack view
• OSI and IETF layer models for network protocols
• Relation between the network view and the distributed protocol stack view
• TCP/IP protocol implementation model
• IP's 32 bit address space Class allocation
• Time-sequence example of ARP on a broadcast LAN
• Time-sequence example of ARP on a non-broadcast LAN
• Time-sequence example of ARP with a router and two LANs
• Architectural view of the protocol functions in the IP-nodes
• IP network structure
• An illustration of the definition of Multicasting
• Multicasting in different protocol layers
• Multiple unicast versus multicasting on an internet
• Time-sequence example of the IGMP protocol operations
• Simplified protocol stack view of the ATM Bearer Service
• ATM network structure
• Connection terminology for the ATM Transport service provider
• ATM address formats
• An ATM end-point address for my machine
• LANE as replacement for Ethernet (simplified protocol stack view)
• Classical IP and ARP over ATM (simplified protocol stack view)
• Simplified time sequence example of (In)ATMARP operation
• Packet encapsulation in the user plane of the protocol stack
• Representation of a VC-mesh structure
• Representation of a MCS Structure
• Topographical view of the network for the Inter-Cluster transmission example
• A simplified protocol stack view of the entities in an mIP/ATM system
• A distributed protocol stack view of the example network
• IDT loop-back connector configuration
• IDT back-to-back cable configuration
• Linux-ATM protocol stack reference configuration
• Linux-ATM daemon structure
• Example ATM network of two hosts and an ATM switch
• Separate protocol stacks for the RFC 2022 entities
• Implementation options for the Copy Service in Linux-ATM