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Cisco Systems continues to dominate the internetworking hardware market with a more than 60 per cent market share of the routers used on the Internet. Cisco routers range in price from several hundred dollars to many thousand dollars, and in capacity from those designed for small offices to those designed to handle traffic for ISPs and major carriers. Despite the slowdown in the IT economy, Cisco routers remain in widespread use and the demand for skilled router administrators is as high as it ever was.

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Newly revised and updated, Mastering Cisco Routers is the mostaffordable, effective way for you to get the information you need to install,configure, and manage Cisco Routers. Inside, step-by-step instructions andrealistic examples help you solve network challenges ranging from the everyday tothe extraordinary. And fresh information on new Cisco features, certificationchanges, and developments in network protocols helps you stay on top of yourgame.

Coverage Includes:

• Understandingtopologies, connection types, data packaging, and the OSI model
• Choosing theappropriate LAN and WAN technologies
• Designing networks using bridges,switches, and routers
• Controlling and securing router traffic using standardand extended access lists
• Routing efficiently with IP, IPX, NetBIOS,AppleTalk, and the Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol(EIGRP)
• Installing Cisco IOS with the appropriate feature set
• Controllingrouters using Cisco IOS in privileged and non-privileged modes
• Protecting thenetwork using a bastion host outside the firewall
• Monitoring network healthusing SNMP and Cisco Works 2000
• Understanding the Cisco certificationprogram
• Efficiently subnetting your network
• Implementing static, default,and dynamic routing
• Using Cisco's graphical tools to install, upgrade, andconfigure routers
• Providing secure remote access to your network using VPN