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CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Certification Guide

By : Lazaro (Laz) Diaz
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CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Certification Guide

By: Lazaro (Laz) Diaz

Overview of this book

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Routing and Switching is one of the most important qualifications for keeping your networking skills up to date. CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 Certification Guide covers topics included in the latest CCNA exam, along with review and practice questions. This guide introduces you to the structure of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and examines in detail the creation of IP networks and sub-networks and how to assign addresses in the network. You will then move on to understanding how to configure, verify, and troubleshoot layer 2 and layer 3 protocols. In addition to this, you will discover the functionality, configuration, and troubleshooting of DHCPv4. Combined with router and router simulation practice, this certification guide will help you cover everything you need to know in order to pass the CCNA Routing and Switching 200-125 exam. By the end of this book, you will explore security best practices, as well as get familiar with the protocols that a network administrator can use to monitor the network.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
4
Subnetting in IPv4
21
Mock Test Questions
22
Assessments

How NAT works

There's still some information I need you to know before we start configuring the routers. The following is just some basic terminology, but it is important for the certification:

Term

Definition

Inside local

Your PC in the private network before translation

Outside local

Destination PC as it appears to your internal network

Inside global

Your PC translated by the NAT router with a public school

Outside global

Destination PC with the actual internet address

The labels in the preceding diagram depict the process of NAT. It takes your inside local private address and translates it to the inside global public address. The destination address which is the web server will always be the same; what does change is the source port, which is randomly chosen above a number of 1024, but the destination port will be the same, because we...