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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

Working with IPv6 on your internetwork

In this section of the chapter, let's dive in and see how IPv6 works. I will discuss how to assign an IPv6 address on a PC and a router's interface. I will also discuss stateful and stateless configurations and I will explain ICMPv6, which has been totally revamped.

So, how do you start to configure IPv6 on your network? Well, you need to start assigning IPv6 addresses, but unlike your PCs, on the routers, you must type the following command: ipv6-unicast routing. This command will turn on the features you need to route in IPv6.

You could assign addresses manually, but if it is a large network; copy/paste, my friends. Let me show you an example:

That address is not too bad to type out. If you look at the interface ID portion of the address, I got slick and used all zeros except for the last hex number. If I were to type that out...