Cisco RJ-45-to-AUX - Default Chapter; Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Cisco Switching Black Book...............................................................................................................................1
Introduction.........................................................................................................................................................4
Overview..................................................................................................................................................4
Is This Book for You?..............................................................................................................................4
How to Use This Book.............................................................................................................................4
The Black Book Philosophy....................................................................................................................5
Chapter 1: Network Switching Fundamentals.................................................................................................6
In Depth...................................................................................................................................................6
Physical Media and Switching Types......................................................................................................6
A Bit of History.......................................................................................................................................7
Networking Architectures.................................................................................................................7
The Pieces of Technology........................................................................................................................9
Repeaters.........................................................................................................................................10
Hubs.................................................................................................................................................10
Bridges.............................................................................................................................................11
Routers.............................................................................................................................................13
Switches...........................................................................................................................................13
Network Design.....................................................................................................................................14
Collision Domains...........................................................................................................................15
Broadcast Domains..........................................................................................................................16
Why Upgrade to Switches?.............................................................................................................16
Switched Forwarding......................................................................................................................19
Switched Network Bottlenecks.......................................................................................................20
The Rule of the Network Road........................................................................................................22
Switched Ethernet Innovations..............................................................................................................23
Full−Duplex Ethernet......................................................................................................................23
Fast Ethernet....................................................................................................................................23
Gigabit Ethernet..............................................................................................................................24
The Cisco IOS........................................................................................................................................24
Connecting to the Switch................................................................................................................25
Powering Up the Switch..................................................................................................................25
The Challenges.......................................................................................................................................27
Today’s Trend........................................................................................................................................27
Entering and Exiting Privileged EXEC Mode.......................................................................................28
Entering and Exiting Global Configuration Mode.................................................................................28
Entering and Exiting Interface Configuration Mode.............................................................................28
Entering and Exiting Subinterface Configuration Mode.......................................................................28
Saving Configuration Changes..............................................................................................................29
Chapter 2: Basic Switch Configuration..........................................................................................................30
In Depth.................................................................................................................................................30
Command−Line Interfaces....................................................................................................................30
Campus Hierarchical Switching Model.................................................................................................31
Access Layer...................................................................................................................................32
Distribution Layer...........................................................................................................................32
Core Layer.......................................................................................................................................33
Remote Network Monitoring.................................................................................................................33
Connecting to the Console Port.............................................................................................................34
Console Cable Pinouts.....................................................................................................................35
Console Connectors.........................................................................................................................36
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