Certified Router Support Professional

Virtual LAN

• Virtual LAN Basics
• ISL and 802.1Q Trunking
• VLAN Trunking Protocol
• VTP Modes
• VTP Pruning

Spanning Tree Protocol

• Spanning Tree Protocol (IEEE 80d) & Need
• Spanning Tree Working & Convergence
• EtherChannel, PortFast & STP Security
• Rapid STP (IEEE 802.1w - RSTP)
• RSTP Link and Edge Types, Port States, Roles & Convergence
• STP Configuration and Verification
• Multiple STP Instances
• Port Costs, Priority, PortFast, BPDU Guard, EtherChannel and RSTP Configuration
• STP Troubleshooting

Static and Connected Routes

• IP routing and addressing process
• IP sub-netting and forwarding
• DNS, DHCP, ARP, and ICMP
• Fragmentation and MTU
• Secondary IP Addressing and Subnet Zero
• ISL and 802.1Q Configuration on Routers
• Configuring Static Routes
• The ping command
• Static default routes with the ip route and ip default-network command
• Classful and Classless Routing

VLSM and Route Summarization

• VLSM and their configuration
• Overlapping VLSM Subnets
• Manual Route Summarization
• Autosummarization and Discontiguous Classful Networks
• Discontiguous Classful Networks
• Autosummarization Support and Configuration

IP Access Control Lists

• IP Standard ACL, their configuration, sequence numbers and wildcard masks
• Extended IP access control lists and configuration
• Named IP Access Lists
• Controlling Telnet and SSH Access with ACLs
• Reflexive, Dynamic and Time-Based Access Lists
• IP Routing troubleshooting by ping and traceroute commands
• VLSM and ACL issues

Routing Protocol Theory

• Interior and Exterior Routing Protocols
• Dynamic routing protocol and routing protocol functions
• IGP Routing Protocol algorithms, metrics and administrative distance
• Distance Vector Routing Protocol features and loop prevention
• Route Poisoning and Counting to infinity problem
• Split Horizon, poison reverse and triggered updates
• The Holddown Process and Holddown Timer
• Link-State Routing Protocol and building it
• Using Dijkstra SPF
• Convergence with Link-State Protocols

OSPF

• OSPF protocols, operation and neighbors
• Searching OSPF Routers
• Neighbor States and problems of a neighbor
• OSPF Topology Database Exchange
• Maintaining LSDB and building the IP Routing Table
• Hierarchical OSPF scaling
• OSPF areas, advantages, configuration
• OSPF single-area and multiple areas configuration
• Configuring OSPF Router ID, Hello and Dead Timers, Metrics (Cost), authentication and load balancing

EIGRP

• EIGRP Operation and neighbors
• Exchanging EIGRP topology information
• Best Route Calculation, feasible distance and reported distance
• EIGRP Convergence, metrics, successors and feasible successors
• The Query and Reply Process
• EIGRP Summary and Comparisons with OSPF
• EIGRP configuration, verification and authentication
• EIGRP Maximum Paths and Variance
• Tuning the EIGRP Metric Calculation

Point-to-Point WANs

• PPP basics and the PPP protocol field
• PPP Link Control Protocol (LCP)
• Looped link detection and enhanced Error Detection
• PPP multilink, authentication and configuration
• PAP and CHAP configuration and verification
• Keepalive Failure
• PAP and CHAP Authentication Failure

Frame Relay Concepts

• Frame Relay Standards
• Virtual Circuits
• LMI and Encapsulation Types
• Frame Relay local and global addressing
• Frame Relay Layer different addressing
• Layer Broadcast Handling
• Controlling Speed and Discards
• FECN, BECN and the discard eligibility (DE) bit
• Frame Relay Configuration and Verificatio
• Configuring the Encapsulation and LMI
• Frame Relay Address Mapping
• Inverse ARP
• Static Frame Relay Mapping