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Cisco Networking Foundations: Switching and Routing

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Get the info you need to support and maintain Cisco networks. This course focuses on switching and routing.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • What you'll learn
  • How to get hands-on practice
1. Ethernet Switching
  • MAC addresses
  • Ethernet switch frame forwarding
  • Ethernet frame format
  • VLAN theory
  • VLAN configuration
  • Trunking theory
  • Trunking configuration
  • Introducing Spanning Tree Protocol (STP)
  • STP: The backstory
  • STP Port States
  • STP example
  • STP convergence time
  • STP variants
  • STP configuration
  • EtherChannel theory
  • EtherChannel configuration
2. IP Routing
  • Packet flow in a routed network
  • Static and default routes
  • Configuring static and default routes
  • Routing protocol selection
  • Routing protocol categories
  • RIP theory
  • Split-horizon and poison reverse
  • Configuring RIPv2
  • Configuring RIPng
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Kevin Wallace

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4.7 rating at LinkedIn Learning based on 1327 ratings

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