Objectives

This book is the first in a series designed to aid you in becoming a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert and the first of two volumes that focuses on TCP/IP routing issues. Early in the project, Kim Lew, Cisco Systems program manager, said, "Our objective is to make CCIEs, not to make people who can pass the CCIE lab." I entirely agree with that statement and have used it as a guiding principle throughout the writing of this book. Although the book includes many case studies and exercises to help you prepare for the CCIE lab, my primary objective is to increase your understanding of IP routing ”both on a generic level and it is implemented on Cisco routers.