Advanced Cisco Router Configuration [Textbook Binding]

Laura Chappell (Author), Cisco Systems Inc. (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1998 | ISBN-10: 1578700744 | ISBN-13: 978-1578700745 | Edition: 1st

Advanced Cisco Router Configuration presents advanced methods and configurations for effective LAN and WAN traffic management. You'll examine a broad range of technical details on routing protocols, configurations, access methods, security, and traffic control. Detailed advice is provided on dial-up connectivity, managing network traffic and access, configuring scalable routing protocols, and integrating non-routed services. As you work through the text, you'll gain valuable insight into effective ways to harness the power of internetworking devices and understand how proper configurations lead to enhanced network longevity and performance.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Another in Cisco's Certification and Training series, Advanced Cisco Router Configuration picks up where Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration leaves off. Like its sister publication, this book is intended to accompany a like-named Cisco class and provides chapter-ending tests as well as a profusion of diagrams, configuration commands, charts, and such.

However, this volume's six sections tackle more complex topics with an emphasis on network traffic and connectivity issues. Instead of basic internetworking, scalability--particularly in terms of the router--is the idea driving these pages. By this, editor Laura Chappell simply means building a network that is able to expand, while requiring only minor interventions and additions. This leads to another strength of the book: underlying concepts are effectively outlined in the introductory chapter of each section, thereby establishing a context for the remainder of the discussion.

After getting the notion of scalability out of the way, the authors clearly discuss traffic congestion and ways to manage and solve it on Internet Protocol (IP) and Internetwork Packet Exchange (IPX) networks. They follow with an explanation of which protocol to deploy, be it Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (IGRP), or Routing Information Protocol (RIP). Also covered is dialup connectivity for remote users and for wide-area connections, as well as how to bridge nonrouted services, such as Data Link Switching. Like many Cisco books, this one wraps up with seven impressive appendices, including a top-notch glossary.--Sarah L. Roberts-Witt

From the Back Cover

Advanced Cisco Router Configuration presents advanced methods and configurations for effective LAN and WAN traffic management. You'll examine a broad range of technical details on routing protocols, configurations, access methods, security, and traffic control. Detailed advice is provided on dial-up connectivity, managing network traffic and access, configuring scalable routing protocols, and integrating non-routed services. As you work through the text, you'll gain valuable insight into effective ways to harness the power of internetworking devices and understand how proper configurations lead to enhanced network longevity and performance.

Product Details

• Textbook Binding: 644 pages
• Publisher: Cisco Systems; 1st edition (November 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578700744
• ISBN-13: 978-1578700745
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.6 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,493,253 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Text, November 26, 1999

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David Voss - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (Textbook Binding)

I used many resources to pass the ACRC Exam. This text stands out as the best by far. I found myself going back to it again and again. If you have a network you can work on and this book by your side, I don't see any reason why you shouldn't pass the test on the first try (but you MUST know this book inside and out).

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Could have been a great book, July 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (Textbook Binding)

This book does cover all of the objectives presented. The format and gramatical errors destroy most of benefits. I used this book and failed the ACRC exam 640-403. The ACRC Exam Certification Guide, author: Clare Gough-CCIE #2893 is a much better book. The questions are more difficult, the CD that accompanies the book is harder than the actual test. I couldn't answer some of them, even read Todd Lammle's book. I placed the three next to each other and thumbed through the chapters. The main difference is the ACRC Exam Guide has several CCIE technical editors who are precise. This is the best $60.00 bucks I've spent since the ICRC guide by Laura Chappel. I even noticed that some of the questions presented in this book were similar to the CCIE Written Examination.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best Route for success, March 23, 2000

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"lancehubbard" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (Textbook Binding)

This Book Follows the official course chapter for chapter, but adds more detail than the course material. There is no better way to learn the curricullum (except in conjuction with hands-on). The typos are relatively minor and there are no grossly misleading errors. The only element it lacks is more comprehensive end of chapter quizzes to prepare for the exam. A good supplement is the ACRC Exam Certification Guide by Cisco Press. For success on the exam and in your career, this book is a great asset.