Chapter 7: Interpreting Routing Components
All network professionals must have an understanding of the concepts of routing. In embarking upon this new domain on IP connectivity, you will be introduced to the topics of routers and how they help us connect to remote networks. Routers helps us reach the internet, access resources online, and share information with each other. Therefore, if you are unable to configure routers to send packets between remote networks and to enable them to automatically exchange routes, you will have great difficulty working in networking.
Upon completing this chapter, you will have learned the process Cisco IOS routers use to make their forwarding decisions. Additionally, you will have gained the ability to identify and describe each component within the routing table of a router and will be able to predict the forwarding decision of each device in a Cisco environment.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Understanding IP routing...