Routing and Switching Essentials (5cr)

Objective

Students who complete thecourse will be able to perform the following functions:
- are able to capture Internet IP traffic and analyze it for purposes of applications like Internet of Things and similar
- are able to secure network devices against hostile attacks and use secure management connections in Internet
- understand and describe basic switching concepts
- understand and describe enhanced switching technologies such as VLANs, VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP), Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP), Per VLAN Spanning Tree Protocol (PVSTP), and 802.1q
- configure and troubleshoot basic operations of a small switched network
- understand and describe the purpose, nature, and operations of a router, routing tables, and the route lookup process
- configure and verify static routing and default routing
- understand and describe how VLANs create logically separate networks and how routing occurs between them
- understand and describe dynamic routing protocols, distance vector routing protocols, and link-state routing protocols
- routing Information Protocol (RIPv1 and RIPv2)
- open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol (single-area OSPF)
- understand and describe the purpose and types of access control lists (ACLs)
- configure, monitor, and troubleshoot ACLs for IPv4 and IPv6
- understand and describe the operations and benefits of Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and Domain Name System (DNS) for IPv4 and IPv6
- understand and describe the operations and benefits of Network Address Translation (NAT)
- configure and troubleshoot NAT operations.

Content

- traffic capturing and analysis
- secure management in Internet
- introduction to switched networks
- basic switching concepts and configuration
- implementing VLAN security
- routing concepts
- inter-VLAN routing
- static and dynamic routing
- single-area OSPF
- access control lists
- DHCP
- network address translation for IPv4

Qualifications

Internet Networks and Security or CCNA1