Lesson 1: Routing

This lesson provides an overview of routing concepts, describes how to troubleshoot routing problems using PathPing and Tracert, and then shows you how to configure static routing.

After this lesson, you will be able to:

  • Describe routing concepts.

  • Use PathPing and Tracert to examine network routes.

  • Describe and configure routing protocols.

  • Use static routing to configure access to networks that cannot be reached through a default gateway.

Estimated lesson time: 45 minutes

Routing Overview

Figure 5-1 shows a typical enterprise intranet consisting of three locations, each with four routers. As you can see, any of the example computers can communicate with any other computer by forwarding communications between routers.

Figure 5-1. A typical ...

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