Network Fundamentals
Subtitle: CCNA Exploration Companion Guide
Publisher: Cisco Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Indianapolis, Ind, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 560
ISBN-13: 9781587132087
Copyright date: 2008
Table of contents: title: Introduction; label: Chapter 1
title: Living in a Network-Centric World; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Communicating in a Network-Centric World; title: Networks Supporting the Way We Live; title: Examples of Today’s Popular Communication Tools; title: Networks Supporting the Way We Learn; title: Networks Supporting the Way We Work; title: Networks Supporting the Way We Play; title: Communication: An Essential Part of Our Lives; title: What Is Communication?; title: Quality of Communication; title: The Network as a Platform; title: Communicating over Networks; title: Elements of a Network; title: Converged Networks; title: The Architecture of the Internet; title: The Network Architecture; title: Fault-Tolerant Network Architecture; title: Scalable Network Architecture; title: Providing Quality of Service; title: Providing Network Security; title: Trends in Networking; title: Where Is It All Going?; title: Networking Career Opportunities; title: Summary; title: Activities and Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 2
title: Communicating over the Network; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: The Platform for Communications; title: The Elements of Communication; title: Communicating the Messages; title: Components of the Network; title: End Devices and Their Role on the Network; title: Intermediary Devices and Their Role on the Network; title: Network Media; title: LANs, WANs, and Internetworks; title: Local-Area Networks; title: Wide-Area Networks; title: The Internet: A Network of Networks; title: Network Representations; title: Protocols; title: Rules That Govern Communications; title: Network Protocols; title: Protocol Suites and Industry Standards; title: Interaction of Protocols; title: Technology-Independent Protocols; title: Using Layered Models; title: The Benefits of a Layered Model; title: Protocol and Reference Models; title: TCP/IP Model; title: Communication Process; title: Protocol Data Units and Encapsulation; title: Sending and Receiving Process; title: OSI Model; title: Comparing the OSI Model to the TCP/IP Model; title: Network Addressing; title: Addressing in the Network; title: Getting Data to the End Device; title: Getting Data Through the Internetwork; title: Getting Data to the Right Application; title: Summary; title: Activities and Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 3
title: Application Layer Functionality and Protocols; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Applications: The Interface Between the Networks; title: OSI and TCP/IP Model; title: Application Layer Software; title: User Applications, Services, and Application Layer Protocols; title: Application Layer Protocol Functions; title: Making Provisions for Applications and Services; title: Client/Server Model; title: Servers; title: Application Layer Services and Protocols; title: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networking and Applications; title: Application Layer Protocols and Services Examples; title: DNS Services and Protocol; title: WWW Service and HTTP; title: E-Mail Services and SMTP/POP Protocols; title: E-Mail Server Processes: MTA and MDA; title: FTP; title: DHCP; title: File-Sharing Services and SMB Protocol; title: P2P Services and Gnutella Protocol; title: Telnet Services and Protocol; title: Summary; title: Activities and Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 4
title: OSI Transport Layer; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Roles of the Transport Layer; title: Purpose of the Transport Layer; title: Supporting Reliable Communication; title: TCP and UDP; title: Port Addressing; title: Segmentation and Reassembly: Divide and Conquer; title: TCP: Communicating with Reliability; title: Making Conversations Reliable; title: TCP Server Processes; title: TCP Connection Establishment and Termination; title: TCP Three-Way Handshake; title: TCP Session Termination; title: TCP Acknowledgment with Windowing; title: TCP Retransmission; title: TCP Congestion Control: Minimizing Segment Loss; title: UDP: Communicating with Low Overhead; title: UDP: Low Overhead Versus Reliability; title: UDP Datagram Reassembly; title: UDP Server Processes and Requests; title: UDP Client Processes; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 5
title: OSI Network Layer; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: IPv4; title: Network Layer: Communication from Host to Host; title: IPv4: Example Network Layer Protocol; title: IPv4 Packet: Packaging the Transport Layer PDU; title: IPv4 Packet Header; title: Networks: Dividing Hosts into Groups; title: Creating Common Groups; title: Why Separate Hosts into Networks?; title: Dividing Networks from Networks; title: Routing: How Data Packets Are Handled; title: Device Parameters: Supporting Communication Outside the Network; title: IP Packets: Carrying Data End to End; title: Gateway: The Way Out of the Network; title: Route: A Path to a Network; title: Destination Network; title: Next Hop: Where the Packet Goes Next; title: Packet Forwarding: Moving the Packet Toward Its Destination; title: Routing Processes: How Routes Are Learned; title: Static Routing; title: Dynamic Routing; title: Routing Protocols; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 6
title: Addressing the Network: IPv4; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: IPv4 Addresses; title: Anatomy of an IPv4 Address; title: Binary-to-Decimal Conversion; title: Decimal-to-Binary Conversions; title: Addressing Types of Communication: Unicast, Broadcast, Multicast; title: IPv4 Addresses for Different Purposes; title: Types of Addresses in an IPv4 Network Range; title: Subnet Mask: Defining the Network and Host Portions of the Address; title: Public and Private Addresses; title: Special Unicast IPv4 Addresses; title: Legacy IPv4 Addressing; title: Assigning Addresses; title: Planning to Address the Network; title: Static or Dynamic Addressing for End-User Devices; title: Selecting Device Addresses; title: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA); title: ISPs; title: Calculating Addresses; title: Is the Host on My Network?; title: Calculating Network, Hosts, and Broadcast Addresses; title: Basic Subnetting; title: Subnetting: Dividing Networks into Right Sizes; title: Subnetting a Subnet; title: Testing the Network Layer; title: Ping 127.0.0.1: Testing the Local Stack; title: Ping Gateway: Testing Connectivity to the Local LAN; title: Ping Remote Host: Testing Connectivity to Remote LAN; title: Traceroute (tracert): Testing the Path; title: ICMPv4: The Protocol Supporting Testing and Messaging; title: Overview of IPv6; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 7
title: OSI Data Link Layer; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Data Link Layer: Accessing the Media; title: Supporting and Connecting to Upper-Layer Services; title: Controlling Transfer Across Local Media; title: Creating a Frame; title: Connecting Upper-Layer Services to the Media; title: Standards; title: MAC Techniques: Placing Data on the Media; title: MAC for Shared Media; title: MAC for Nonshared Media; title: Logical Topology Versus Physical Topology; title: MAC: Addressing and Framing Data; title: Data Link Layer Protocols: The Frame; title: Framing: Role of the Header; title: Addressing: Where the Frame Goes; title: Framing: Role of the Trailer; title: Sample Data Link Layer Frames; title: Putting It All Together: Following Data Through an Internetwork; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 8
title: OSI Physical Layer; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Physical Layer: Communication Signals; title: Purpose of the Physical Layer; title: Physical Layer Operation; title: Physical Layer Standards; title: Physical Layer Fundamental Principles; title: Physical Signaling and Encoding: Representing Bits; title: Signaling Bits for the Media; title: Encoding: Grouping Bits; title: Data-Carrying Capacity; title: Physical Media: Connecting Communication; title: Types of Physical Media; title: Copper Media; title: Media Connectors; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 9
title: Ethernet; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Overview of Ethernet; title: Ethernet: Standards and Implementation; title: Ethernet: Layer 1 and Layer 2; title: Logical Link Control: Connecting to the Upper Layers; title: MAC: Getting Data to the Media; title: Physical Implementations of Ethernet; title: Ethernet: Communication Through the LAN; title: Historic Ethernet; title: Legacy Ethernet; title: Current Ethernet; title: Moving to 1 Gbps and Beyond; title: Ethernet Frame; title: Frame: Encapsulating the Packet; title: Ethernet MAC Address; title: Hexadecimal Numbering and Addressing; title: Another Layer of Addressing; title: Ethernet Unicast, Multicast, and Broadcast; title: Ethernet MAC; title: MAC in Ethernet; title: CSMA/CD: The Process; title: Ethernet Timing; title: Interframe Spacing and Backoff; title: Ethernet Physical Layer; title: 10- and 100-Mbps Ethernet; title: 1000-Mbps Ethernet; title: Ethernet: Future Options; title: Hubs and Switches; title: Legacy Ethernet: Using Hubs; title: Ethernet: Using Switches; title: Switches: Selective Forwarding; title: Address Resolution Protocol (ARP); title: Resolving IPv4 Addresses to MAC Addresses; title: Maintaining a Cache of Mappings; title: ARP Broadcast Issues; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 10
title: Planning and Cabling Networks; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: LANs: Making the Physical Connection; title: Choosing the Appropriate LAN Device; title: Device Selection Factors; title: Device Interconnections; title: LAN and WAN: Getting Connected; title: Making LAN Connections; title: Making WAN Connections; title: Developing an Addressing Scheme; title: How Many Hosts in the Network?; title: How Many Networks?; title: Designing the Address Standard for Your Internetwork; title: Calculating the Subnets; title: Calculating Addresses: Case 1; title: Calculating Addresses: Case 2; title: Device Interconnections; title: Device Interfaces; title: Making the Device Management Connection; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Chapter 11
title: Configuring and Testing Your Network; title: Objectives; title: Key Terms; title: Configuring Cisco Devices: IOS Basics; title: Cisco IOS; title: Access Methods; title: Configuration Files; title: Introducing Cisco IOS Modes; title: Basic IOS Command Structure; title: Using CLI Help; title: IOS Examination Commands; title: IOS Configuration Modes; title: Applying a Basic Configuration Using Cisco IOS; title: Naming Devices; title: Limiting Device Access: Configuring Passwords and Banners; title: Managing Configuration Files; title: Configuring Interfaces; title: Verifying Connectivity; title: Test the Stack; title: Testing the Interface; title: Testing the Local Network; title: Testing Gateway and Remote Connectivity; title: Tracing and Interpreting Trace Results; title: Monitoring and Documenting Networks; title: Basic Network Baselines; title: Capturing and Interpreting Trace Information; title: Learning About the Nodes on the Network; title: Summary; title: Labs; title: Check Your Understanding; title: Challenge Questions and Activities; title: To Learn More; label: Appendix
title: Check Your Understanding and Challenge Questions Answer Key; title: Glossary; title: Index