Internetworking Routers & Switches

Configure VLANs, trunking, softswitching, and MPLS.

Today’s corporations base their success on the performance of their voice and data communications networks. In order to design and configure these rapidly evolving networks, an understanding of routing and switching technologies is essential.

In this powerful 2-day course, extensive hands-on labs, utilizing both Cisco and Nortel routers and switches, will help you understand routing and switching concepts, as well as how to better design and configure your real-world internetworks.

To register call 916852-2570
This course can be delivered by the methods below:
Classroom Learning $1295 USD
Virtual Classroom e-Learning $1195 USD

You Learn...

How to install and configure Cisco routers and switches
To build and configure a live Frame Relay network
IP, RIP, OSPF, and IGRP routing protocols
How switching, VLANs, and trunking services can boost your network performance
How to integrate switching technology into your existing networks
When to route and when to switch

Who Would Benefit

Networking professionals who need a fundamental understanding of today’s major protocols.
Administrators, IT managers, marketing/sales personnel who need to understand routing and switching, network designers, network engineers, sales engineers, technicians, telecom managers
Prerequisite for Cisco, Enterasys, and/or Nortel certification candidates

 

Course Outline

1. Switching Technologies Overview

Switch backbone
Design
Spanning-Tree algorithm
Analyzing the BPDU protocol
Forwarding database
Learning
Forwarding
Filtering
Flooding

2. Advanced Switching

VLANs types
Port-based
Protocol-based
Mac addressed-based
Layer 3 switching
Virtual routing
Tagging
802.1q standard
802.1p standard
Trunking technologies
Aggregate linking
Multi-link trunking
Layer 4 softswitching
Port addressing
Aggregate linking
Multi-Protocol Layer Switching (MPLS)
Label switching
Advanced security switching
Data encryption
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
IPsec

3. TCP/IP Introduction

IP addressing
Subnet masking
Variable-Link Subnet-Masking (VLSM)
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
Headers and services
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Headers and services
Upper layer protocols
Telnet
HTTP
SMTP
DNS
BOOTP/DHCP

4. Routing Basics

Routing vs. switching
Core layer
Switching at the core layer
Distribution layer
Routing at the distribution layer
Access
User network access
Router components
Ethernet and serial interface types
Console port

5. Basic Routing Protocols

Routing overview
Hop count metric
Loop prevention
Split horizon
Poison reverse
RIP 1
Metric
Update timer
Protocol header
RIP 2
VLSM support
Protocol header

6. Advanced Routing Protocols

OSPF overview
OSPF areas
Internal routers
Area Border Routers (ABR)
Autonomous System Boundary Routers (ASBR)
Link state process
Forming adjacency process
Link State Database (LSDB)
Hello packets
OSPF metric
Cost metric
Assigning cost
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
Autonomous system

7. WAN Internetworking

HDLC/SDLC frames
Encapsulation method
Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP)
Encapsulation method
WAN transmission services
Dedicated
Switched
Frame Relay
Data Link Control Identifier (DLCI)
Handshaking
IP encapsulation

Course Labs

Hands-On Lab 1: Build a live classroom network.

Use Cisco routers and switches to construct the classroom network that will be used for all subsequent labs.

Hands-On Lab 2: Spanning Tree Algorithm

Configure Cisco switches to support transparent bridging.

Hands-On Lab 3: Network Trouble Spots

Analyze network trouble spots from initial Spanning Tree configuration parameters.

Hands-On Lab 4: Switched VLAN

Create port-based VLAN broadcast domains to isolate network traffic flow types.

Hands-On Lab 5: EtherChannel Links

Configure multiple aggregate 100 Mbps Ethernet ports between switches to increase network performance.

Hands-On Lab 6: Label Tag Switching

Configure label tag switching within a switched network.

Hands-On Lab 7: Security Tools

Use various security scanning programs to determine security threats within the classroom network.

Hands-On Lab 8: Subnetting Case Study

Calculate variable length subnetting in a case study in class. Develop an advanced IP addressing scheme to subnet an already subnetted address.

Hands-On Lab 9: Using RIP1

Configure RIP version 1 protocol on a router and troubleshoot network-related problems.

Hands-On Lab 10: Using RIP2

Configure RIP 2 protocol for VLSM support.

Hands-On Lab 11: Using IGRP

Configure Cisco’s proprietary IGRP routing protocol.

Hands-On Lab 12: Using OSPF

Configure different OSPF areas within the classroom autonomous network.

 

Suggested Prerequisites

Our Understanding Networking Fundamentals provides an excellent foundation fo this course.

Understanding Networking Fundamentals

 

Suggested Follow-ons

Students followed up Internetworking Routers & Switches by attending these popular classes:

ICND (Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices)
Internetworking with TCP/IP

 

Certifications

Enterasys Specialist - Router Configuration