Table of Contents

 

Copyright

Brief Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

About this Book

About the Author

Chapter 1. Before you begin

1.1. Is this book for you?

1.2. How to use this book

1.2.1. The main chapters

1.2.2. Hands-on labs

1.2.3. Further exploration

1.2.4. Above and beyond

1.3. Lab considerations

1.3.1. Choosing your lab environment

1.3.2. Virtual lab considerations

1.3.3. Practicing on a live, production network

1.3.4. My recommendation for your lab environment

1.3.5. Cisco Internetwork Operating System versions

1.4. Online resources

1.5. A word on my recommendations

1.6. Being an immediately effective network administrator

Chapter 2. What is a Cisco network?

2.1. The truth about routers and switches

2.2. MAC addresses

2.3. The Ethernet frame: a big envelope

2.3.1. When everybody talks, nobody listens

2.4. Broadcast domains

2.4.1. Closing the floodgates: the MAC address table