We guarantee you'll be working "hands-on" in the router's command-line interface within 15 minutes of the start of the seminar. Our knowledgeable, experienced instructors are there to show you what you really need to know and to help you troubleshoot when things don't work the way they should.
Two intensive days of hands-on Cisco® router training including Cisco® router installation, configuration, and troubleshooting using live in-classroom routers. You'll learn how to build a Cisco router configuration from scratch. You'll learn different ways of monitoring your router, saving and restoring configurations, and how to design and implement access-control lists. We'll explain TCP/IP addressing and subnetting concepts in a way that you can really understand. You'll learn how to set up static NAT and Port Address Translation. We'll show you how to set up a DHCP server on your Cisco® router. You'll install and configure static routes and then you'll learn how to let the routers do the work with dynamic routing protocols such as RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, and EIGRP. You'll even learn how to encrypt your passwords and how to use Cisco® router password recovery procedures to gain entry to the router when you don't know the passwords.
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Price: $895.00
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Course Objectives
The overall objective of this seminar is to help you become comfortable with viewing, editing, managing, and troubleshooting Cisco® router configurations. By the end of this seminar, you will...
Practice building a router configuration from scratch to full functionality
Practice three techniques for saving configurations and for re-applying them (Perfect for disaster prevention and recovery)
Understand how to upgrade your router's Cisco® Internetwork Operating System (CIOS)®
Practice using CDP (Cisco Discovery Protocol)® in troubleshooting
Use the "show cdp neighbor detail" command to get information about remote routers, even when they're on a different subnet
Practice converting and diagramming IP addresses and subnets, including decimal to binary conversion
Practice properly designing and configuring IP addressing schemes
Practice the step-by-step procedures to configure NAT to make your router an Internet firewall
Practice configuring and deploying DHCP on a Cisco® router for automatic IP address assignment
Practice using local and remote router configuration procedures
Learn how to configure static routes and practice building routing tables
Gain hands-on experience in the basics of routing protocols with hands-on exercises in RIP version 1, RIP version 2, OSPF, and EIGRP
Work as a group to control traffic with standard and extended IP access lists
Practice recovering passwords (and learn how to protect against unauthorized password recovery!)
Practice testing procedures using PING, traceroute, and debug
Certifications and Exams
This Cisco® training seminar is designed for working IT professionals who desire a practical understanding of Cisco® router configuration procedures and techniques.It is not designed as a test-taker's "boot camp", but it can help prepare you for the routing portion of the Cisco® CCNA® exam(s). Exam candidates are encouraged to review this course description and the complete exam objectives and outlines to ensure that this seminar is appropriate for them.
Who should attend?
This hands-on Cisco® router training seminar is perfect for experienced network administrators, engineers, and technicians who are just now starting to work with Cisco® routers, for network-savvy business people who need to learn the lingo, for CCNA® and CCENT® candidates looking for hands-on experience, for teachers and instructors wanting to brush up on technical training skills, and anyone who needs to better understand the most widely used routers in the world.
Course Outline
Module One: The Basics of Cisco® Routers
You'll see different types of routers and where they're used. You'll see the insides of a router, it's primary hardware components, and how to configure the incredibly powerful Cisco® Internetwork Operating System (CIOS)®.
How to use the built-in "backdoor" when you don't know the administrator password
Primary hardware components
CIOS software versions and feature sets
The boot sequence of a Cisco® router
IOS software commands and shortcuts
Understanding command modes
The main reason why commands sometimes don't work
Student hands-on exercise 1.1: Password recovery
Student hands-on exercise 1.2: Practice logging in and understanding the difference between user mode and privileged mode
Student hands-on exercise 1.3: Practice using CIOS commands and shortcuts
Module Two: Designing and Configuring the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
Understanding IP addressing is at the core of modern network design and troubleshooting. You'll use powerful learning techniques to become comfortable with IP addressing and subnetting so your networks will run faster with fewer data collisions.
The layers of TCP/IP
Protocols within the TCP/IP suite
What are sockets and ports and why are they important?
Understanding an IP address
Designing an IP network with subnets
Getting ready for IP version 6
Student hands-on exercise 2.1: Understanding an IP address
Student hands-on exercise 2.2: Using an IP subnet calculator
Student hands-on exercise 2.3: Designing an IP network with subnets
Module Three: Building a Router Configuration from the Ground Up
When you get a new router, its configuration is blank. In this module, you'll actually erase your classroom router's configuration and start from scratch, using both the menu-driven setup script and manual configuration techniques. You'll learn how to take your router from no configuration to full functionality as you build the configuration step-by-step, from the ground up.
Password protected modes
Global configuration mode
Using the menu-driven setup script
Configuring the interfaces
The difference between configuring WAN and LAN ports
Assigning console and virtual terminal passwords
The difference between the enable password and the enable secret (and which one you should never use!)
Student hands-on exercise 3.1: Using the "write erase" command to clear the router's configuration
Student hands-on exercise 3.2: Using the menu-driven setup script to build a base configuration
Student hands-on exercise 3.3: Customizing console and Telnet lines with passwords and "ease-of-use" features
Student hands-on exercise 3.4: Testing your new configuration with PING and Traceroute
Module Four: Monitoring Your Router
Once your router is operating, you'll need to monitor it for optimization, security, and troubleshooting. In this module, you'll learn how to use the "show" family of commands and the powerful Cisco® Discovery Protocol® to see what your router (and its neighbors) are doing "behind the scenes".
Using the "show" family of commands
The critical difference between "show run" and "show start"
How to use the Cisco® Discovery Protocol (CDP)® to view neighboring Cisco® devices
How to turn off CDP® for security and bandwidth conservation
Student hands-on exercise 4.1: Practice using "show" to understand your router's configuration
Student hands-on exercise 4.2: Practice using "show cdp neighbors" to learn about your router's directly connected Cisco devices
Module Five: Network Address Translation
Network Address Translation (NAT) is one of the most talked about tools in today's network environments. We'll show you how to configure NAT to protect your LAN while sharing an Internet or other WAN connection. You'll also learn how to enable port forwarding to Internet clients to connect to inside resources such as Web servers and VPN servers.
When to use Network Address Translation (NAT)
Four types of NAT
Configuring NAT
Buidling a firewall with your Cisco® router
Configuring PAT (Port Address Translation)
Port forwarding with static NAT
Student hands-on exercise 5.1: Practice building a NAT firewall on your router using Port Address Translation
Student hands-on exercise 5.2: Practice configuring static NAT to enable port forwarding on your router
Module Six: Deploying and Configuring DHCP on your Cisco® Router for Automatic IP Address Assignment
You can use DHCP on a Cisco® Router with NAT to configure an entire SOHO (small office home office) network without the need for expensive, complex servers. You'll see the simple steps required for deploying and configuring DHCP.
Configuring a DHCP pool
Setting up a TFTP server for DHCP log maintenance
Determining and configuring the DHCP excluded address range
Configuring the addresses, subnet masks, and TCP/IP options for assignment by DHCP
Student hands-on exercise 6.1: Practice configuring your router as a DHCP server, including DHCP options
Module Seven: Routing Protocols and Procedures
This is what routers are all about and you'll see when to use static routing and when to use dynamic routing. You'll work with four different routing protocols to see the differences between them.
Understanding metrics and administrative distance
Configuring static routing
Dynamic routing protocols
Distance-vector and link-state routing
RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP, and OSPF
Student hands-on exercise 7.1: Practice configuring static routes
Student hands-on exercise 7.2: Practice configuring RIP (Routing Information Protocol) version 1 and 2
Let's face it, systems are far from perfect and when problems occur, we need to identify the cause and repair them right away! In this module, we'll show you how to perform basic troubleshooting steps including the use of the "show" commands and router debugging. We'll even show you how to install the UNIX syslog tool on a Windows® computer to offload your router logs.
Basics of troubleshooting
Use of the "show" command in troubleshooting
Debugging
How to install syslog on a Windows® computer
Student hands-on exercise 8.1: Practice router monitoring with KiwiSyslog
Module Nine: Backing Up and Restoring Configurations
Production routers can have lengthy, complicated configurations that would be difficult (if not impossible) to recreate. As with anything in the computer world, backups are critical. Youll learn and experiment with three different ways of backing up and applying configurations.
Using Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) to save and restore configurations
Using HyperTerminal's capture and send text utility to save and restore configurations right on your PC
How to clean up configurations to avoid errors
Using HyperTerminal's® convenient edit option "paste-to-host"
Student hands-on exercise 9.1: Practice installing and using a TFTP server to backup and restore your router's Internetwork Operating System software
Student hands-on exercise 9.2: Practice using copy and paste to backup and restore your router's configuration file
Student hands-on exercise 9.3: Practice using a TFTP server to backup and restore your router's configuration file
Module Ten: Remote Router Control
Most of the time, you'll control your router remotely. In this module, youll learn how to use Telnet and a variety of commands to configure, optimize, and troubleshoot your router from your desktop (or wherever you are!).
Using Telnet to remotely monitor and control the router
Telnet commands to see and disconnect remote users
Using Telnet commands to view your own remote sessions
Sending console messages from Telnet sessions
Student hands-on exercise 10.1: Practice using Telnet to remotely control a router
Module Eleven: Controlling Access
One of the most popular ways of managing network traffic is through a router's access-control lists. You'll see how to build standard IP access lists to control general traffic and extended IP access lists to permit or deny very specific types of traffic.
Access lists defined
Types of access lists
Building and using IP standard access lists
Building and using IP extended access lists
The real reason why you should never build your access list directly on the router
How to use named ACLs
Shortcut to building and editing access lists
Adding usernames and passwords to your router
Student hands-on exercise 11.1: Practice designing an ACL to block one subnet from another
Student hands-on exercise 11.2: Practice designing an ACL to block one subnet from the Internet
Student hands-on exercise 11.3: Practice builing an extended ACL to block Telnet access on an outside interface
Student hands-on exercise 11.4: Understanding limitations of ACLs
Module Twelve: Passwords and Recovery
You'll see the different types of router passwords and how to encrypt all (or selected) router passwords. Then, you'll actually practice the procedures for recovering a lost password on a Cisco® router and you'll learn how to find password recovery procedures for whatever type of router you use.
Types of passwords
Understanding encryption levels available for password encryption
Encrypting all passwords
Student hands-on exercise 12.1: Practice applying encryption to all router passwords
Prerequisites
Students should have basic familiarity with computers and networks. Completion of soundtraining.net's Networking Fundamentals: How to Build, Administer, and Troubleshoot Computer Networks or equivalent knowledge is recommended. This is a fundamentals seminar and is appropriate for those with no router experience and limited networking experience. More advanced students should carefully review the seminar outline to ensure that it meets their personal/career objectives.
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Schedule and Registration
Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Morning session: 9:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Lunch (on your own): 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
Afternoon session: 12:45 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Two intensive days of hands-on Cisco® router training including Cisco® router installation, configuration, and troubleshooting using live in-classroom routers. You'll learn how to build a Cisco router configuration from scratch. You'll learn different ways of monitoring your router, saving and restoring configurations, and how to design and implement access-control lists. We'll explain TCP/IP addressing and subnetting concepts in a way that you can really understand. You'll learn how to set up static NAT and Port Address Translation. We'll show you how to set up a DHCP server on your Cisco® router. You'll install and configure static routes and then you'll learn how to let the routers do the work with dynamic routing protocols such as RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, and EIGRP. You'll even learn how to encrypt your passwords and how to use Cisco® router password recovery procedures to gain entry to the router when you don't know the passwords. 
You'll see different types of routers and where they're used. You'll see the insides of a router, it's primary hardware components, and how to configure the incredibly powerful Cisco® Internetwork Operating System (CIOS)®.
Bring us onsite to your location! All of soundtraining.net's outstanding training programs are available for presentation onsite at your location (or the location of your choice). You choose the time, the topic, and the location and we'll be there with top-notch training, delivered by the best trainers in the industry. Practical, understandable, and relevant is what makes the soundtraining.net difference! Call 206.988.5858 or click the link for more information about bringing training right to your door.