Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches

Ben Piper

• Publisher: Manning Publications
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9781617293634
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Computer Science General
• Index: Computer Science

Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches is a tutorial designed for beginners who want to learn how to administer Cisco switches and routers. Just set aside one hour a day (lunchtime would be perfect) for a month, and you'll start learning practical Cisco Network administration skills faster than you ever thought possible.

Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches

Ben Piper

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Brief Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Author

Chapter 1. Before you begin

Chapter 2. What is a Cisco network?

Chapter 3. A crash course on Cisco’s Internetwork Operating System

Chapter 4. Managing switch ports

Chapter 5. Securing ports by using the Port Security feature

Chapter 6. Managing virtual LANs (VLANs)

Chapter 7. Breaking the VLAN barrier by using switched virtual interfaces

Chapter 8. IP address assignment by using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol

Chapter 9. Securing the network by using IP access control lists

Chapter 10. Connecting switches using trunk links

Chapter 11. Automatically configuring VLANs using the VLAN Trunking Protocol

Chapter 12. Protecting against bridging loops by using the Spanning Tree Protocol

Chapter 13. Optimizing network performance by using port channels

Chapter 14. Making the network scalable by connecting routers and switches together

Chapter 15. Manually directing traffic using the IP routing table

Chapter 16. A dynamic routing protocols crash course

Chapter 17. Tracking down devices

Chapter 18. Securing Cisco devices

Chapter 19. Facilitating troubleshooting using logging and debugging

Chapter 20. Recovering from disaster

Chapter 21. Performance and health checklist

Chapter 22. Next steps

Common show commands

Index

List of Figures

List of Tables

Table of Contents

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Author

Chapter 1. Before you begin

1.1. Is this book for you?

1.2. How to use this book

1.2.1. The main chapters

1.2.2. Hands-on labs

1.2.3. Further exploration

1.2.4. Above and beyond

1.3. Lab considerations

1.3.1. Choosing your lab environment

1.3.2. Virtual lab considerations

1.3.3. Practicing on a live, production network

1.3.4. My recommendation for your lab environment

1.3.5. Cisco Internetwork Operating System versions

1.4. Online resources

1.5. A word on my recommendations

1.6. Being an immediately effective network administrator

Chapter 2. What is a Cisco network?

2.1. The truth about routers and switches

2.2. MAC addresses

2.3. The Ethernet frame: a big envelope

2.3.1. When everybody talks, nobody listens

2.4. Broadcast domains

2.4.1. Closing the floodgates: the MAC address table

2.4.2. Breaking up the broadcast domain

2.4.3. Joining broadcast domains

2.4.4. Addressing devices across broadcast domains

2.5. Internet Protocol addresses

2.5.1. Where are you?

2.5.2. The IP vs. MAC dilemma

2.5.3. Address Resolution Protocol

2.6. Connecting broadcast domains using a router

2.6.1. Where are you? Where am I?

2.6.2. Understanding subnets

2.7. Traversing broadcast domains using a default gateway

2.8. Managing routers and switches

2.9. Hands-on lab

Chapter 3. A crash course on Cisco’s Internetwork Operat...