Cisco Routers for the Small Business: A Practical Guide for IT Professionals

✍ Scribed by Jason C. Neumann (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 257
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cisco Routers for the Small Business provides, in plain English, a no–nonsense approach to setting up all the features of the Cisco IOS for a small business using broadband technologies. This book explains how to use a Cisco router to setup cable modems, DSL and PPPoE, and explains how to configure NAT, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, DMZs and an IPSec VPN between two sites using advanced encryption. The chapters are tutorial-based and provide easy-to-follow, step–by–step instructions for all tasks that small businesses need to perform using a router. Easy–to–implement example configurations are included in the appendices.

• Written for the small business using common, broadband connections such as cable Internet and DSL.
• Provides easily–followed, step–by–step instructions for tasks that small businesses need to perform, such as configuring virtual private network (VPN) connections, creating firewalls, securing the router, and more.
• Contains appendixes with example configurations that are short, to the point, and dead–simple to implement.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Getting to Know Your Router....Pages 1-16
Configuring Your Router....Pages 17-55
Configuring DSL Using PPPoE....Pages 57-79
Configuring a VPN Using IPSec....Pages 81-103
Beyond the Basics....Pages 105-141
Understanding Binary and Subnetting....Pages 143-156
Routing—What Routers Do Best....Pages 157-171
Understanding Variable Length Subnet Mask Networking....Pages 173-181
Back Matter....Pages 183-246

✦ Subjects

Computer Communication Networks