Book Description
Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches is designed for occasional and full-time network administrators using Cisco hardware. In 22 bite-sized lessons, you'll learn practical techniques for setting up a Cisco network and making sure that it never fails. Real-world labs start with configuring your first switch and guide you through essential commands, protocols, dynamic routing tricks, and more.
Table of Contents
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Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches
- 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