- Understand your Cisco network, including the difference between routers and switches
- Configure VLANs and VLAN trunks
- Secure your network
- Connect and configure routers and switches
- Establish good maintenance habits
About the Reader This book is written for readers with no previous experience with Cisco networking. About the Author Ben Piper is an IT consultant who holds numerous Cisco, Citrix, and Microsoft certifications including the Cisco CCNA and CCNP. He has created many video courses on networking, Cisco CCNP certification, Puppet, and Windows Server Administration. Table of Contents
- Before you begin
- What is a Cisco network?
- A crash course on Cisco's Internetwork Operating System
- Managing switch ports
- Securing ports by using the Port Security feature
- Managing virtual LANs (VLANs)
- Breaking the VLAN barrier by using switched virtual interfaces
- IP address assignment by using Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
- Securing the network by using IP access control lists
- Connecting switches using trunk links
- Automatically configuring VLANs using the VLAN Trunking Protocol
- Protecting against bridging loops by using the Spanning Tree Protocol
- Optimizing network performance by using port channels
- Making the network scalable by connecting routers and switches together
- Manually directing traffic using the IP routing table
- A dynamic routing protocols crash course
- Tracking down devices
- Securing Cisco devices
- Facilitating troubleshooting using logging and debugging
- Recovering from disaster
- Performance and health checklist
- Next steps
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