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CompTIA Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-007

You're reading from   CompTIA Network+ Study Guide: Exam N10-007 Todd Lammle's bestselling CompTIA Network+ Study Guide for the N10-007 exam!

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Wiley
ISBN-13 9781119432258
Length 1008 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

1. Introduction FREE CHAPTER 2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Networks 3. Chapter 2: The Open Systems Interconnection Specifications 4. Chapter 3: Networking Topologies, Connectors, and Wiring Standards 5. Chapter 4: The Current Ethernet Specifications 6. Chapter 5: Networking Devices 7. Chapter 6: Introduction to the Internet Protocol 8. Chapter 7: IP Addressing 9. Chapter 8: IP Subnetting, Troubleshooting IP, and Introduction to NAT 10. Chapter 9: Introduction to IP Routing 11. Chapter 10: Routing Protocols 12. Chapter 11: Switching and Virtual LANs 13. Chapter 12: Wireless Networking 14. Chapter 13: Authentication and Access Control 15. Chapter 14: Network Threats and Mitigation 16. Chapter 15: Physical Security and Risk 17. Chapter 16: Wide Area Networks 18. Chapter 17: Troubleshooting Tools 19. Chapter 18: Software and Hardware Tools 20. Chapter 19: Network Troubleshooting 21. Chapter 20: Management, Monitoring, and Optimization 22. Index
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Appendix A: Answers to Written Labs
1. Appendix B: Answers to Review Questions
2. Appendix C: Subnetting Class A

Routing Basics

Once you create an internetwork by connecting your wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs) to a router, you need to configure logical network addresses, such as IP addresses, to all hosts on the internetwork so that they can communicate via routers across that internetwork.

In IT, routing essentially refers to the process of taking a packet from one device and sending it through the network to another device on a different network. Routers don’t really care about hosts—they care only about networks and the best path to each network. The logical network address of the destination host is used to get packets to a network through a routed network, and then the hardware address of the host is used to deliver the packet from a router to the correct destination host.

If your network has no routers, then it should be apparent that, well, you are not routing. But if you do have them, they’re there to route traffic to all the networks in your...

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