Chapter7
Routing
“Youngsters read it, grown men understand it, and old people applaud it.”
—Miguel de Cervantes
In this chapter, you will learn how to
■ Explain how routers work
■ Describe dynamic routing technologies
■ Install and configure a router successfully
The true beauty and amazing power of TCP/IP lies in one word: routing. Routing enables us to interconnect individual LANs into WANs. Routers, the magic boxes that act as the interconnection points, have all the built-in smarts to inspect incoming packets and forward them toward their eventual LAN destination. Routers are, for the most part, automatic. They require very little in ...
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