Fast reference to Cisco resources

With this Fast Reference to Cisco, you can quickly find links to the most sought-after content from the Cisco.com Web site. This reference is indexed by technology and each section contains information relevant to that particular technology area. We've also included information on Cisco certifications, Cisco product security advisories and notices, and end of product life notifications.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
   1. IP Addressing and Application Services
   2. Multicast
   3. IP routing
   4. IP switching and tunneling
   5. IPv6
   6. LAN switching
   7. MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching)
   8. Network management
   9. QoS (Quality of Service)
   10. Security and VPN
   11. Storage networking
   12. Voice
   13. WAN
   14. Wireless / Mobility
   15. Cisco certifications
   16. Cisco product security advisories and notices
   17. End of product life notifications

1. IP Addressing and Application Services
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• Introduction
• IP addressing commands

• White papers
• Access Lists -- technical documentation and overview
• Configuring IP Access Lists
• Dynamic Address Allocation and Resolution
• Chapter download: Variable-length subnet masks

• Configuration examples

• Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP)
• Domain Name System (DNS)
• Gateway Discovery Protocol (GDP)
• Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
• Netflow
• NTP
• RLOGIN
• Remote Monitoring (RMON)
• Service Assurance Agent
• Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
• Syslog
• TFTP

2. Multicast
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• Introduction to CGMP and IGMP
• Overview
• Primer on multicast technology
• IP multicast technology overview
• Configuring IP multicast
• Troubleshooting IP multicast

3. IP routing
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• Chapter download: Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols, Chapter 7

Protocols

• BGP overview and configuration
• Classless interdomain routing (CIDR)
• EIGRP overview and configuration
• An introduction to IGRP
• Intermediate System-to-Intermediate System (IS-IS) overview and configuration
• MBGP overview and configuration
• ODR
     --ODR FAQs
     --Designing large-scale stub networks with ODR
• Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) overview and configuration
     --Chapter download: OSPF Network Design Solutions: Redistribution
• Routing Information Protocol (RIP) overview and configuration
• Troubleshooting IP routing

4. IP switching and tunneling
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A. IP switching

• Introduction to Cisco's Express Forwarding (CEF)
• How to choose the best router switching path for your network

B. IP tunneling

• Ascend Tunnel Management Protocol (ATMP)
• The Bisync Serial Tunnel (BSTUN)
• Generic routing encapsulation (GRE)
• Layer 2 Forwarding Protocol (L2F)
• The Layer 2 Tunnel Protocol (L2TP)
• Mobile IP
• Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
• Serial tunneling (STUN)
• STUN-SDLC
• X25 Over TCP (XOT)

5. IPv6
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• The ABCs of IP version 6
• Cisco IOS software release specifics for IPv6 features
• Implementing IPv6 networks
• Chapter download: Implementing Cisco IPv6 Networks: IPv6 Addressing

6. LAN switching
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Protocol groups

• Etherchannel
• Ethernet
     -- Configuring and Troubleshooting Ethernet 10/100/1000Mb Half/Full Duplex Auto-Negotiation
     --Troubleshooting Ethernet Collision
• FDDI / CDDI
     --System Requirements to Implement FDDI
     -- FDDI FAQs
• LAN Quality of Service
• LAN Security
• LAN Trunking
• Layer-Three Switching
• Port Monitoring
• Spanning Tree Protocol
• Virtual LAN (VLAN) / VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
• Creating Ethernet VLANs on Catalyst Switches

Chapter downloads:

• Network Security Principles and Practices: Secure LAN switching
• Network Consultants Handbook: LAN topologies

7. MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching)
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• What you need to know about MPLS
• MPLS Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) overview and configuration examples
• MPLS troubleshooting

Protocol groups

• Layer 2 VPNs
     --Layer 2 VPNs technology brief
• LDP
• MPLS
• MPLS over ATM
• TDP

Chapter downloads:

• Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation; Chapter 7
• MPLS and VPN Architectures: Multicast VPN
• Traffic Engineering with MPLS: Quality of service

8. Network management
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These links contain product literature, versions and options, technical documentation, alerts and bulletins, and related software centers.

• CiscoWorks LAN management solution
• CiscoWorks routed WAN management solution
• CiscoWorks small network management solution
• CiscoWorks for Windows
• CiscoWorks IP telephony environment monitor
• CiscoWorks QoS policy manager
• CiscoWorks voice manager
• CiscoWorks VPN/security management solution
• Cisco Secure Access Control Server
• Cisco secure user registration tool
• CiscoWorks 1105 wireless LAN solution engine
• CiscoWorks 1105 hosting solution engine
• Cisco Network Analysis Modules for the Catalyst 6500 Series
• Network management system: Best practices white paper

9. QoS (Quality of Service)
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• QoS classification and marking
• QoS configuration and monitoring
• QoS congestion avoidance
• QoS congestion management
• QoS link efficiency mechanisms
• QoS policing and shaping
• QoS Signaling
• Learn About Cisco IOS QoS

10. Security and VPN
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Protocol groups

• Cisco Encryption Technology
• IPSec
• Kerberos
• Lawful Intercept
• Lock & Key
• MPPE
• RADIUS
     --Configuring RADIUS and TACACS+ Servers
• SSH
• SSL
     --SSL: Introduction to Secure Sockets Layer
     -- SSL VPN
• TACACs+
     --Configuring RADIUS and TACACS+ Servers
     --TACACS+ tech notes
     --TACACS+ configuration examples
• Public Key Infrastructure: Deployment benefits and features

Chapter downloads

• Cisco Networking Simplified: Security
• Network Security Principles and Practices: Secure LAN switching
• Managing Cisco Network Security
• Cisco Secure Virtual Private Networks

11. Storage networking
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• Fibre Channel over IP (FCIP)
• iSCSI (Small Computer Systems Interface over IP)
• Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI)
• Storage networking solutions for small & medium businesses
• Storage networking solutions for large enterprises

12. Voice
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• H.323
• Media Gateway Control Protocol
• SGCP
• SIP
• Skinny Client Control Protocol
• Voice QoS

Chapter downloads:

Voice-Enabling the Data Network, Chapter 4

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13. WAN
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• Data Compression
• Frame relay
• Point-to-Point protocol
• Serial data
• X.25 protocols

Chapter download:

• Cisco WAN Switching Professional Reference

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14. Wireless / Mobility
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• Introduction to Cisco wireless
• Cisco Aironet series
• Wireless security
• Wireless LAN software
• Wireless/mobility solutions for small and medium business

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15. Certifications
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• Certifications overview
• Listing of all Cisco certifications
• Certification data sheets
• Recertification
• Certification tracking system tool

Chapter downloads

• CCNA Basics: Network media types
• CCNA Practical Studies: Router interface configuration methodology
• Network Design and Case Studies (CCIE Fundamentals)

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16. Cisco Product Security Advisories and Notices
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Advisories and Notices
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/707/advisory.html

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17. End of product life notifications
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Cisco provides six months' notice of an affected product's end-of-sale date and/or the last day when the affected product can be ordered. You can also see the time period within that Cisco may release any software maintenance releases or bug fixes to the affected software product. After this date, Cisco Engineering will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software. You might want to visit this site regularly.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/products_end-of-life_policy.html

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