Network Warrior: Everything You Need to Know That Wasn't on the CCNA Exam

Book Description Pick up where certification exams leave off. With this practical, in-depth guide to the entire network infrastructure, you’ll learn how to deal with real Cisco networks, rather than the hypothetical situations presented on exams like the CCNA. Network Warrior takes you step by step through the world of routers, switches, firewalls, and other technologies based on the author's extensive field experience. You'll find new content for MPLS, IPv6, VoIP, and wireless in this completely revised second edition, along with examples of Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000 switches throughout.
Topics include:

• An in-depth view of routers and routing
• Switching, using Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches as examples
• SOHO VoIP and SOHO wireless access point design and configuration
• Introduction to IPv6 with configuration examples
• Telecom technologies in the data-networking world, including T1, DS3, frame relay, and MPLS
• Security, firewall theory, and configuration, as well as ACL and authentication
• Quality of Service (QoS), with an emphasis on low-latency queuing (LLQ)
• IP address allocation, Network Time Protocol (NTP), and device failures

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Content

1. What Is a Network?
2. Hubs and Switches
3. Autonegotiation
4. VLANs
5. Trunking
6. VLAN Trunking Protocol
7. Link Aggregation
8. Spanning Tree
9. Routing and Routers
10. Routing Protocols
11. Redistribution
12. Tunnels
13. First Hop Redundancy
14. Route Maps
15. Switching Algorithms in Cisco Routers
16. Multilayer Switches
17. Cisco 6500 Multilayer Switches
18. Cisco Nexus
19. Catalyst 3750 Features
20. Telecom Nomenclature
21. T1
22. DS3
23. Frame Relay
24. MPLS
25. Access Lists
26. Authentication in Cisco Devices
27. Basic Firewall Theory
28. ASA Firewall Configuration
29. Wireless
30. VoIP
31. Introduction to QoS
32. Designing QoS
33. The Congested Network
34. The Converged Network
35. Designing Networks
36. IP Design
37. IPv6
38. Network Time Protocol
39. Failures
40. GAD’s Maxims
41. Avoiding Frustration