Book description
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.
About the Technology
Cisco's ultrareliable routers and switches are the backbone of millions of networks, but "set and forget" is not an acceptable attitude. Fortunately, you don't have to be an old-time administrator to set up and maintain a Cisco-based network. With a handful of techniques, a little practice, and this book, you can keep your system in top shape.
About the Book
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.
What's Inside
- 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.
Quotes
This is one of the best technical books I've ever read. Ben clearly knows his stuff and, more importantly, how to teach it.
- Kent R. Spillner, DRW
This is the Cisco networking book we've needed for a long time now. Highly recommended if you are looking to get started with Cisco networking.
- Mark Furman, Info-Link Technologies
A great book to get you up and running in no time.
- Sau Fai Fong, Panda Tech Hub
If you just want to pass the exam, pick a different book. If you want to configure your Cisco equipment into a working network, this is the place to start.
- David Kerns, Rincon Research
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
Product information
- Title: Learn Cisco Network Administration in a Month of Lunches
- Author(s):
- Release date: June 2017
- Publisher(s): Manning Publications
- ISBN: 9781617293634
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