Thursday, 8 March 2012

Your most favourite class test preparation

As mentioned on Thursday, the game plan for next week is

Wednesday - Present Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Powerpoint slides.
                      Submit your one page summary.
                      Go through Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 Class Test Prep

Thursday - Present Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 Powerpoint slides.
                  Submit your one page summary.
                  Go through Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 Class Test Prep

Thursday - Present Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 Powerpoint slides.
                  Submit your one page summary.
                  Go through Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 Class Test Prep

Class Test Preparation Set
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/Class%20Test%20Preparation.zip
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/Class%20Test%20Preparation%202.zip

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

Chapter 7 learning materials uploaded

Hello ! The presentation slides for Chapter 7 are as follows:

Summary Slides (Beginner)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/CCNA2_Chp7_RIPv2_V1.ppt
Slightly Detailed Slides (Intermediate)
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/Expl_Rtr_chapter_07_RIPv2.ppt
Detailed Slides (Advanced)
http://ibizzone.ite.edu.sg/elearning/mod/resource/view.php?id=3056
Quiz
http://ibizzone.ite.edu.sg/elearning/mod/quiz/view.php?id=3153

Follow your skill level and go through the slides. If you feel comfortable, go through the higher level slides as well and finally, attempt the quiz.

Chapter 7 instructor slides uploaded

Here are your favourite keypoint slides

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/Chapter%207_Keypoint.pdf

Monday, 5 March 2012

RIPv2 demo files uploaded

Hopefully you guys will remember the lessons learnt from these examples.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/RIPv2-ScratchSolution.pkt
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/RIPv2-ConvertSolution.pkt
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/55776142/RIPv2-DiscontSolution.pkt

Presentation Assignment

Hi All,

Here is your presentation assignment. Please be reminded that you need to come up with at least 10 slides and at least 1 page summary.

Chapter 1 Introduction to Routing and Packet Forwarding
Joanna, Nachiya, Asyib, Sean, Prasad
Chapter 2 Static Routes
Lionel, Joel, Desmond, Rickson
Chapter 3 Introduction to Dynamic Routing Protocols
Ikram, Didik, Chester, Nurul, Haziq, Haikal, Haiqal
Chapter 4 Distance Vector Routing Protocols
Zhihao, Maria, Mickey, Eddy, Glenn, Lambert
Chapter 5 RIPv1
Junhui, Huixiang,Alson, Jermyn, Darren, Joseph
Chapter 6 VLSM and CIDR
Kelvin, Boon Wei, Steven, Boon Choon, Janzen, Teck Wei

Please let me know if you have any queries. The presentation shall start next Wednesday.

Friday, 24 February 2012

Different types of routes

In INTT, there are 5 types of routes
1) Connected routes
2) Static routes
3) Dynamic routes
4) Summary routes
5) Default routes

1) Connected routes are routes which are automatically created in the routing table upon entering the following commands to configure the interfaces

conf t
int fax/x or sx/x/x
ip address <host address> <subnet mask>
no shut

As long as the interfaces are configured in the router and are shown to be up and running, the router will assume that the interfaces belong to active subnets which are directly connected and thus, they create connected routes to them. Connected routes have a AD of 0 which is the highest in terms of trustworthiness in Cisco routers.

2) Static routes are routes which are created manually by operators. It is often denoted in the format as shown

ip route <destination network address> <subnet mask> <exit interface/next hop address>

In Newton's third law of motion where action and reaction are equal and opposite, we can infer that for every static path we create, there should be a reverse path. It is because most devices exchange requests and responses and there is a need for bi-directional paths. In choosing whether to use exit interfaces or next hop addresses, there are a few points to note. Firstly, static routes based on exit interfaces have faster lookup than next hop addresses. However, exit interfaces are more useful for serial point to point connections where there is only one device at each end. For ethernet networks, it is better to use next hop addresses to prevent flooding. Static routes AD is 1, which is less trustworthy than connected routes

3) Dynamic routes are routes created by the routers automatically. They do it by activating dynamic routing protocols. These protocols help the routers to advertise their directly connected networks to other routers using routing updates. They also calculate the best paths from these routing updates and place them inside the routing table. For RIP, the commands are as follows

router rip
network <directly connected network #1>
network <directly connected network #2>

For INTT, we learning about RIPv1 which is classful routing protocols and RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP which are classless routing protocols. Classful routing protocols advertise their network addresses only while classless routing protocols advertise their network addresses and subnet masks. More details will be covered in my classes later on.

3) Summary routes are routes which combine various routes into a single route. This reduces the size of the routing table and makes routing faster. The tradeoff is that accurarcy of routing will be compromised as unwanted ip addresses get forwarded instead of dropped while using summarization.

4) Default routes are routes of the last resort. When the packets have no matching routing entries, the default route is used to forward the packets. Once a default route is created, no packets will be dropped by the router. All packets with unknown destinations will be forward through s0/0/0, in the case below.

ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 s0/0/0

In case of a stub router, default routes can be used to summarized all the routes into one route.