Routers

In this section, we are going to look at the routing table on a router. You will be presented with two different topologies with numerous networks within them. We will look at how these networks are represented in the routing table for each of the topologies. Initially, we are going to use the topology shown in Figure 7.2:

Figure 7.2: Simple routed network
This section contains several screenshots from a Cisco router terminal. These are for illustrative purposes; you do not need to know them for the exam.

In this example, you can see that we have three routers, but initially, we will just focus on one router. Figure 7.3 shows the routing ...

Get Networking Fundamentals now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.