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Routing essentials workshop

Course description

This workshop focuses on basic network infrastructure design principles. These principles will help participants to understand and configure interior and exterior gateway routing protocols.

Who should attend?

The targeted audience for this workshop are networking professionals who are responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining networks. Participants should already possess the following basic skills:

• OSI reference model hierarchical knowledge
• Clear understanding of the internetworking foundation

Course length

3 days, but may vary depending on individual course requirements and arrangements.

Objectives

The workshop will provide participants with the knowledge to:

• Identify the design requirements in running a network
• Perform IP addressing best practices for the network infrastructure
• Configure a router running in a simulated network environment
• Use appropriate routing protocols that will handle the traffic flow to address the reliability, redundancy, and performance requirements of a network
• Configure Interior Gateway Protocol (IGP) and Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP) such as the Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) for IGP and Border Gateway Protocol version 4 (BGPv4) for EGP

Course outline

• Introduction
• Routing principles
• IP addressing
• Network planning essentials
• Router configuration requirements
• Configuring OSPF
• Configuring ISIS
• Configuring BGP

Workshop includes hands-on lab exercises on how to setup a network, including configuring the routing protocols.

See also

• Download training course materials

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