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Chapter 7. Introduction <strong>to</strong> Cisco Routers<br />

The goal of this chapter is <strong>to</strong> provide you with an overview of <strong>the</strong> Cisco<br />

router configuration options commonly used in enterprise <strong>network</strong>ing<br />

environments, specifically:<br />

• Configuration of IP, IPX, and AppleTalk pro<strong>to</strong>cols<br />

• Basic pro<strong>to</strong>col routing configuration<br />

• Using <strong>the</strong> Cisco IOS command line and configuration modes<br />

• <strong>Understanding</strong> memory usage<br />

• Upgrading <strong>the</strong> IOS and disaster recovery<br />

• Setting up router logging, accounting, and security<br />

IP routing pro<strong>to</strong>cols (BGP, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and so on)<br />

and advanced configuration options (such as access control lists and<br />

Network Address Translation) will be covered in Chapter 9, "Advanced<br />

Cisco Router Configuration," Chapter 10, "Configuring IP Routing<br />

Pro<strong>to</strong>cols on Cisco Routers," and Chapter 11, "Network<br />

Troubleshooting, Performance Tuning, and Management<br />

Fundamentals." When you begin using Cisco routers, <strong>the</strong> hardest<br />

thing <strong>to</strong> master is <strong>the</strong> command structure. This chapter has plenty of<br />

examples and a configuration tu<strong>to</strong>rial <strong>to</strong> help get you started.<br />

Cisco Router Hardware<br />

Cisco Systems began as a small startup in a San Francisco living room<br />

in 1984. Its founders were researchers at Stanford University who<br />

devised a "gateway server" <strong>to</strong> connect computers from different<br />

departments. At this time, Transmission Control Pro<strong>to</strong>col (TCP)/IP<br />

was beginning <strong>to</strong> enter <strong>the</strong> <strong>network</strong>ing community, and this husband<br />

and wife team (Len and Sandy Bosack) decided <strong>to</strong> take a chance and<br />

make a commercial version of <strong>the</strong>ir server. Cisco Systems'first<br />

generation of products were known as gateway servers, and <strong>the</strong><br />

product line had four iterations:<br />

• Advanced Gateway Server (AGS)<br />

• Mid-Range Gateway Server (MGS)<br />

• Integrated Gateway Server (IGS)<br />

• Advanced Gateway Server Plus (AGS+)<br />

These servers provided basic LAN-<strong>to</strong>-WAN and LAN-<strong>to</strong>-LAN routing<br />

utilizing E<strong>the</strong>rnet, Token Ring, and Serial Layer 2 technologies. Today

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