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.