Configuring And Testing Your Network

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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