Concise Cisco routing

Description

A fast paced practical hands on introduction to Cisco routers concentrating on basic product knowledge needed for the real world. Starts with the basics of routing through configuring static routes, RIP, OSPF, and EIGRP ending with access lists. Hands on sessions follow all the major chapters with a major practical at the end to reinforce all that was learnt in the course.

What will you learn

Concise Cisco routers course details

Anyone who will be working with Cisco routers. In particular: Network Administrators, Field engineers, Network support personnel

None, although a knowledge of the TCP/IP protocols would be advantageous.

3 days

What are routers? Network protocols, Routing protocols.

Router models, The IOS, DRAM, SRAM, NVRAM, Flash, ROM and boot flash.

Accessing the router, installing a Cisco, using the setup script.

User and privilege modes, online help show, debug, basic troubleshooting

The configuration editor, Global, major and sub commands, enable, secret and other passwords, telnet.

Buffered logging, web access, CDP…

IP addressing rules. The need for subnetting, subnet masks, Calculating network numbers.

Basics, Ethernet, Serial lines, PPP, DCE, loopback interfaces.

Why use static routes? Configuring static routes, default routes.

How they work, configuration, troubleshooting.

Configuration and troubleshooting.

Configuration and troubleshooting.

Configuration management, offline editing and TFTP usage. Cisco boot sequence, IOS upgrades. Bypassing Cisco passwords.

What are access lists? General rules, basic and extended IP access lists.

A series of exercises based around, installs, adds, moves, changes, upgrades and troubleshootin