Configuring and Testing

Your Network

Network Fundamentals – Chapter 11

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 Several classes of devices have IOS embedded

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 The startup config is copied from NVRAM toRAM and
executed as running configuration.

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 The CLI is used to access various IOS configuration
modes on a device

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 Cisco IOS is modal and the implications of modes.

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 Define the different modes and identify the mode
prompts in the CLI

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 The basic command structure for IOS commands

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 There are many types of help and feedback available
while using IOS and these features can be use to get
help, take shortcuts and ascertain success

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 The purpose of the show command and several of its
variations

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Role of Internetwork Operating System (IOS)
 several of the configuration modes, and their
associated prompt

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 Every device can be configured to have a name which
makes it easy to identify devicesfor cconfiguration
purposes .

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 Approaches to establishing naming conventions; such
as using names in telnet

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 Passwords has an important role in in limiting access
to device configurations

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 There are several ways in which access to a device
configuration can be limited

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 Using the CLI to set passwords and add banners to a
device

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 The steps used to examine the startup config, make
changes to config, and replace the startup config with
the running config

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 Using basic IOS config commands to manage a device.

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 The router has an important role in a network.

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 Having multiple interfaces in one router manage the
router to connect many networks as each router
interface is a member in different network

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Use Cisco CLI Commands to Perform Basic
Router & Switch Configuration and Verification
 The purpose of assigning interface descriptions to a
router

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Select, Apply, and Verify Appropriate
Addressing Parameters to a Host
 Given a type of host and a master addressing scheme, trace the
steps for assigning host parameters to a host

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Select, Apply, and Verify Appropriate
Addressing Parameters to a Host
 Trace the steps for using ipconfig/ifconfig to verify host parameter
assignments and for using ping to test assignments

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Use Common Utilities to Verify Network
Connectivity Between Hosts
 Using the ping command in the CLI to determine if the
IP protocol is operational on a local host

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Use Common Utilities to Verify Network
Connectivity Between Hosts
 The ping command CAN BE USED to determine if the
IP protocol is properly bound to an NIC

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Use Common Utilities to Verify Network
Connectivity Between Hosts
 the ping command can be used to determine if a host
can actively communicate across the local network

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Use Common Utilities to Verify Network
Connectivity Between Hosts
 Using the ping command to verify that the local host
can communicate across the internetwork to a given
remote host.

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Use Common Utilities to Verify Network
Connectivity Between Hosts
 There are many several conditions that might cause the
test to fail .

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Use Common Utilities to Establish a Relative
Performance Baseline for the Network
 The output of the ping command, saved into logs, and
repeated over time is used to establish relative network
performance

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Use Common Utilities to Establish a Relative
Performance Baseline for the Network
 Using the output of the traceroute command, saved into
logs, and repeated over time, to establish relative
network performance

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Use Common Utilities to Establish a Relative
Performance Baseline for the Network
 Trace the steps for verifying the physical addresses of
the hosts

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