Cisco Cookbook

Description

• Author: Ian J. Brown, Kevin Dooley

While several publishers (including O'Reilly) supply excellent documentation of router features, the trick is knowing when, why, and how to use these features There are often many different ways to solve any given networking problem using Cisco devices, and some solutions are clearly more effective than others. The pressing question for a network engineer is which of the many potential solutions is the most appropriate for a particular situation. Once you have decided to use a particular feature, how should you implement it? Unfortunately, the documentation describing a particular command or feature frequently does very little to answer either of these questions. Everybody who has worked with Cisco routers for any length of time has had to ask their friends and co-workers for example router configuration files that show how to solve a common problem. A good working configuration example can often save huge amounts of time and frustration when implementing a feature that you've never u

- Router Configuration and File Management

- Router Management

- User Access and Privilege Levels

- TACACS+

- IP Routing

- RIP

- EIGRP

- OSPF

- BGP

- Frame Relay

- Queueing and Congestion

- Tunnels and VPNs

- Dial Backup

- NTP and Time

- DLSw

- Router Interfaces and Media

- Simple Network Management Protocol

- Logging

- Access Lists

- DHCP

- NAT

- Hot Standby Router Protocol

- IP Multicast