Lesson 9 - Bridging/Switching Learning Process

In the previous lesson we looked at the Ethernet and a hub operation. We classified hub to be a layer 1 device as it does not understand an...

Lesson 7 - Building a Home Network

"Dad! What are you doing?" - My son Mattie is looking over my shoulder while I'm connecting three old computers to the hub I...

Lesson 3 - Initial Configuration of Cisco Switch and Router

Understanding technologies requires a skill. Even though not mine, but the best definition of what a skill is, could be summarized in five w...

Lesson 2 - Navigating in Cisco IOS

Once, you have connected to your Cisco switch or router console port, and power up the device you will see some information displayed during...

Lesson 1 - Connecting to Cisco Console Port with MINICOM

Cisco is easy. If I could learn it, anybody can!   If you are a linux user user you must learn how to connect to your Cisco router or swit...

Lab 3-3: Using ACLs to filter IP based traffic

Previous Lab  |  Exercises  | Next Lab Lab pre-requisites: Packet Filtering Using Standard ACL. Standard ACL Examples. Packet Filtering with...

Lab 3-2 Device Hardening

Previous Lab  |  Exercises  | Next Lab Lab pre-requisites: Switch Port Security . Cisco Discovery Pro tocol (CDP).   Lab 3 - 2 Packet Trac...