Lesson 1: Communications (Only for those who want to start from scratch)

• 1.1. TCP/IP Stack (In detail)
• 1.2. OSI Model (In detail)
• 1.3. Networking Devices: Hubs, Bridges, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Load-Balancers

Lesson 2: Switches (For those with Lesson 1 Knowledge, training could start from here)

• 2.1. Basic Switching
• 2.1.1. ARP, MAC Address Table, How a switch Populates a MAC Address table
• 2.1.2. STP, RPVST, LAN (Broadcast Domain), VLANS’s (Multiple Broadcast Domains), VTP, Trunking (Connecting multiple switches), (Inter-VLAN routing) Router on a Stick
• 2.1.3. HSRP, P-ARP, R-ARP

Optional

• 2.1.4. IP Addresses (If not covered in Lesson 1), Public and Private, FLSM, VLSM
• 2.1.5. IPv4 and IPv6 (Optional)

Lesson 3: Routing 1

• 3.1. Gateway Routers and their Importance in a network
• 3.2. NAT, PAT, DHCP, DNS, Static Routes, Default Routes
• 3.3. Routing Protocols (Classified differently that how explained in the TCP/IP and OSI – DV and LS) – IGP and EGP, Classless and Classful routing.
• 3.4. Static Routing
• 3.5. RIPv1 and RIPv2
• • 3.5.1. Functioning and operation in detail
  • 3.5.2. Configuring RIP

Lesson 4: Routing 2, IGRP and EIGRP

• 4.1. IGRP
• 4.2. EIGRP (In detail)
• 4.3. EGIRP Stub Routing
• 4.4. Redistribution Explained
• 4.5. Understanding the various ‘Sh’ commands available and how to interpret their output and use for T-Shooting
• LAB 1: Packet Tracer (Switching, Routing concepts learnt implemented on PT5.0)

Lesson 5: Routing 2, OSPF

• 5.1. OSPF Basics – Functioning, DR, BDR, Etc
• 5.2. Multi and single area OSPF
• 5.3. LSA types OSPF
• 5.4. Redistribution
• LAB 2.1: GNS3 (IMPLEMENTING OSPF, SINGLE AND MULTIPLE AREAS AND REDISTRIBUTION)
• LAB 2.2: GNS3 (MANIPULATING OUTING WITH EIGRP STUBS AND OSPF LSA TYPES)

Lesson 6: BGP (Optional)