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Synopsis
LANs: Internetworking describes some of the popular hardware and software that provide interoperability between different LANs or different applications.

Audience
This introductory course is for anyone who is preparing for client/server environments or who needs to find information about particular LAN components.

Time
4 hours

Product Code: LANC03
After completing LANs: Internetworking , the user should be able to:

Explain how a network operating system (NOS) functions
Describe the similarities and differences among repeaters, bridges, routers, and gateways
Describe how bridges learn and filter
Describe the routing algorithms and protocols used by routers

Network Operating Systems
Redirection
Function of a NOS
Server software and operation
Multitasking NOS

Printing
Using print servers
Printing problems
Print utilities

Application and Database Servers
Application server types
Advantages of application servers
Database servers front-end and back-end functions
Advantages of database servers

Internetworking Products
Filtering traffic
The spanning tree algorithm
The Gateway

Bridges
Benefits of using bridges
How bridges learn and filter
Source routing
Remote bridges
Managing bridges

Routing Protocols
Routing algorithms
Flooding the network
Complex and distributed routing
TCP/IP routing

This course has the following features:

A course index
A glossary
A Skill Assessment


 

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