Course Content

Lesson 1: Communications (Only for those who want to start from scratch)

  • 1.1. TCP/IP Stack (In detail)
  • 1.2. OSI Model (In detail)
  • 1.3. Networking Devices: Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Load-Balancers

Lesson 2: Switches (For those with Lesson 1 Knowledge, training could start from here)

  • 2.1. Basic Switching
  • 2.1.1. ARP, MAC Address Table, How a switch Populates a MAC Address table
  • 2.1.2. STP, RPVST, LAN (Broadcast Domain), VLANS’s (Multiple Broadcast Domains), VTP, Trunking (Connecting multiple switches), (Inter-VLAN routing) Router on a Stick
  • 2.1.3. HSRP, P-ARP, R-ARP

Optional

  • 2.1.4. IP Addresses (If not covered in Lesson 1), Public and Private, FLSM, VLSM
  • 2.1.5. IPv4 and IPv6 (Optional)

Lesson 3: Routing 1

  • 3.1. Gateway Routers and their Importance in a network
  • 3.2. NAT, PAT, DHCP, DNS, Static Routes, Default Routes
  • 3.3. Routing Protocols (Classified differently that how explained in the TCP/IP and OSI – DV and LS) – IGP and EGP, Classless and Classful routing.
  • 3.4. Static Routing
  • 3.5. RIPv1 and RIPv2
    • 3.5.1. Functioning and operation in detail
    • 3.5.2. Configuring RIP

Lesson 4: Routing 2, IGRP and EIGRP

  • 4.1. IGRP
  • 4.2. EIGRP (In detail)
  • 4.3. EGIRP Stub Routing
  • 4.4. Redistribution Explained
  • 4.5. Understanding the various ‘Sh’ commands available and how to interpret their output and use for T-Shooting
  • LAB 1: Packet Tracer (Switching, Routing concepts learnt implemented on PT5.0)

Lesson 5: Routing 2, OSPF

  • 5.1. OSPF Basics – Functioning, DR, BDR, Etc
  • 5.2. Multi and single area OSPF
  • 5.3. LSA types OSPF
  • 5.4. Redistribution
  • LAB 2.1: GNS3 (IMPLEMENTING OSPF, SINGLE AND MULTIPLE AREAS AND REDISTRIBUTION)
  • LAB 2.2: GNS3 (MANIPULATING OUTING WITH EIGRP STUBS AND OSPF LSA TYPES)

Lesson 6: BGP (Optional)