Building Cisco Remote Access Networks - Part 4

Outline

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

Description

The second course in the Cisco Internetwork Design series covers IP Addressing. It focuses on routing protocols and considerations as well as security considerations that you will need to consider with a TCP/IP network. It also covers the various addressing choices you have when designing a TCP/IP network and how to manage your IP addressing options. It also covers multicast addressing considerations and TCP/IP security. It also describes basic routing concepts and the different types of routing protocols. It also explains aggregation, convergence and route distribution. Finally, it focuses on ICP. Link-state protocol, and OSPF.

Audience

The typical audience would work as a System Administrator, Network Administrator or Network Designer. They would typically have at least 2 years experience in that role. There is no prerequisite for this course series. Participants taking this curriculum should have a working knowledge of theoretical and hands-on experience with multiprotocol internetworks.

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify the physical and logical components of a TCP/IP network design.
• Identify the guidelines for efficient use of IP addresses and subnet masks.
• Identify the considerations that affect the selection of network routing protocols.
• Identify the steps involved in switching packets through a router.
• Identify the types of routing and switching processes available on Cisco platforms.
• Identify the principal categories of Internet Protocol (IP) routing protocols.
• Identify the features of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) network and router types.
• Identify the features and functions of OSPF linkstate advertisements (LSAs).
• Identify the features and functions of designated routers.
• Identify the characteristics of the Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP).
• Identify the features of IGRP routing and load balancing techniques.
• Identify the steps involved in Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) convergence.

Topics Include

Unit 1: TCP/IP Network Design

• Identify the physical and logical components of a TCP/IP network design.
• Identify the guidelines for efficient use of IP addresses and subnet masks.
• Identify the considerations that affect the selection of network routing protocols.
• Identify the features of an Internet Protocol (IP) hierarchical addressing scheme.
• Identify the differences between classful and classless routing techniques.
• Identify the benefits of using a variable-length subnet mask (VLSM) addressing scheme.
• Identify the features and functions of route summarization.
• Identify the characteristics of classless and prefix routing protocols.
• Identify the features of secondary Internet Protocol (IP) addressing.
• Identify the guidelines for using dynamic host address-assignment protocols to manage IP addresses.
• Identify the differences between private and registered addressing techniques.
• Identify the issues that affect multicast addressing.
• Identify the guidelines for ensuring TCP/IP security.
• Identify the guidelines for implementing a secure firewall system.
• Identify the features of Cisco Network Address Translation (NAT) and Private Internet Exchange (PIX).

Unit 2: Routing Protocol Design

• Identify the steps involved in switching packets through a router.
• Identify the types of routing and switching processes available on Cisco platforms.
• Identify the principal categories of Internet Protocol (IP) routing protocols.
• Identify the factors that affect the determination of the best network path.
• Identify the convergence and scalability features of interior routing protocols.
• Identify the ways in which route information summarization determines scalability.
• Identify the features of distance vector routing convergence and link-state routing convergence.
• Identify methods for preventing routing loops during convergence.
• Identify the methods used to redistribute routing information between different routing protocols.

Unit 3: OSPF Design

• Identify the features of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) network and router types.
• Identify the features and functions of OSPF link-state advertisements (LSAs).
• Identify the features and functions of designated routers.
• Identify the hierarchical structure of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) networks.
• Identify the limitations of virtual links in Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) networks.
• Identify the guidelines for allocating Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) addresses.
• Identify the benefits of using variable-length subnet masks (VLSMs) to allocate IP addresses.
• Identify the guidelines for configuring summarization on an area border router (ABR).
• Identify the guidelines for configuring summarization on an autonomous system boundary router (ASBR).
• Identify the features of the different types of Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) stubby areas.
• Identify the guidelines for implementing a scalable OSPF internetwork.
• Identify the factors that determine Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) convergence.
• Identify the guidelines for implementing an Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) backbone design.

Unit 4: IGRP/EIGRP Design

• Identify the characteristics of the Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP).
• Identify the features of IGRP routing and load balancing techniques.
• Identify the steps involved in Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP) convergence.
• Identify the features and functions of Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) routing.
• Identify the features of EIGRP route summarization.
• Sequence the steps involved in EIGRP convergence.

Duration

8 Hours

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended.

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 14MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

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