Features and Organization

This book is meant to be used as a tool in your day-to-day tasks as a network administrator or engineer. As such, we have avoided presenting a large amount of instructional information or theory on the operation of protocols or commands. That is better handled in other textbooks that are dedicated to a more limited subject matter.

Instead, this book is divided into parts that present quick facts, configuration steps, and explanations of configuration options for each feature in the Cisco IOS software. The parts and chapters are as follows :

• Part IConfiguration Fundamentals

  • Chapter 1, Configuration Basics

  • Chapter 2, Interface Configuration

  • Chapter 3, Dial Solutions

• Part II Layer 2 Networking

  • Chapter 4, Bridging

  • Chapter 5, IBM Networking

• Part III Network Protocols

  • Chapter 6, IP Addressing and Services

  • Chapter 7, IP Routing Protocols

  • Chapter 8, IP Route Processing

  • Chapter 9, Non-IP Routing Protocols

• Part IV Packet Processing

  • Chapter 10, Quality of Service

  • Chapter 11, Cisco IOS Software Switching Services

• Part V Voice & Telephony

  • Chapter 12, Voice and Telephony

• Part VI Security

  • Chapter 13, Security and VPNs

  • Chapter 14, Access Lists and Regular Expressions

• Part VII Appendixes

  • Appendix A, Cisco IOS Software Release and Filename Conventions

  • Appendix B, Cabling Quick Reference

  • Appendix C, SNMP MIB Structure

  • Appendix D, Password Recovery

  • Appendix E, Configuration Register Settings

  • Appendix F, Well-Known IP Protocol Numbers

  • Appendix G, Well-Known IP Port Numbers

  • Appendix H, Well-Known ICMP Type and Code Numbers

  • Appendix I, Well-Known Multicast Addresses

  • Appendix J, Well-Known IPX SAP Codes

  • Appendix K, Ethernet Typecodes