Summary of Exam Objectives

In this chapter, we discussed three main topics: understanding IP routing, security considerations for routing, and troubleshooting IP routing. We’ve looked at routing basics, including how devices are identified on the network, how NAT works, and the differences between IPv4 and IPv6. We’ve also looked at creating, viewing, and updating routing tables and the differences between static and dynamic routing.

The chapter continued with a discussion of the various routing protocols and the differences between distance-vector and link-state routing algorithms. This naturally led to a discussion of the two primary examples of both algorithms, RIP and OSPF. This discussion also examined the differences between RIP version 1 and RIP version 2 and what sample networks using these protocols might look like. We also examined OSPF and how sample networks might work using this protocol.

Later in the chapter, we looked at the OSI reference model and routing devices, as well as how to use utilities such as Netsh, PING, pingpath, and Tracert for troubleshooting. The chapter continued by looking at how to use Windows Server 2003 as a router and as a VPN server.