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Cisco & IP Addressing
Louis D. Rossi, Louis R. Rossi and Thomas Rossi
  Copyright © 1999 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Introduction
The book is intended mainly for administrators and engineers that are being introduced to IP addressing for the first time. Or for those that may have experience but never understood how an IP address is constructed.
The following are objectives of this book:
  1. To describe the concept of IP addressing
  2. To describe how to configure IP addresses on a Cisco Router
  3. To describe how to configure IP routing protocols on a Cisco router
  4. Provide IP practice questions and answers for the Cisco Certification exams.
The following are NOT objectives of this book.
  1. To provide OSI layer model information
  2. To provide RFC content (we have provided a list of RFCs in Appendix F)
  3. To provide complex Cisco router configuration information
  4. To provide details of how specific routing protocols operate
The intent is to provide a complete explanation of IP addressing while at the same time provide basic information relating to IP routing protocols.
We do assume you know how to login to a Cisco router and get into the privilege mode.
This book has is divided into three parts:
  Part 1 Concepts
  Part 2 Configuring a Cisco Router.
  Part 3 Practice Questions
I have found very few books that explain IP addressing from the ground up, it always seems books assume some level of knowledge that the reader may or may not have.
We assume no IP knowledge we begin explaining IP addressing from the beginning not the middle!
I am sure that many of you have been in this field for years and still do not really understand IP addressing, I know that that was the case for me. I would address from a pattern without the understanding why I was doing what I was doing.
More experienced readers will benefit from this logical presentation of IP addressing since we have found, after teaching thousands of students, that this topic can be very difficult to understand.
This book is NOT intended to explain the inner workings of routing protocols or HSRP and NAT.
We show basic example configurations that will help the beginner to understand the concepts and the basic configurations.
This book will NOT refer to RFCs, if you would like to refer to an RFC we have provided a list in the Appendix F.
There are literally dozens of books available that will provide all the gory details of specific routing protocols and some are very good. The intention of this book is be very specific about IP addressing and then show how to configure IP addressing on a Cisco router.
We will begin with the IP address which include VLSM and CIDR, then move on to routing protocols and provide examples of how to configure IP RIP, IGRP, OSPF and EIGRP. The final two chapters of Part 2 are basic configurations of HSRP and NAT.
Part 3 provides the reader with practice questions, answers and explanations that simulate Cisco’s certification exams.
One final thought regarding McGraw Hill’s Cisco Technical Expert series. To achieve the ultimate goal of CCIE certification there are a multitude of skills required. This book addresses several of those skills on the beginner level, but one must begin somewhere and as an instructor for over 30 years I believe the beginning is a very good place.
Thank you very much.
Lou Rossi Sr.

 


 
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