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Internetworking

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

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CompTIA A+ Certification
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Access 2002

This introductory LAN Internetworking tutorial is for anyone who is preparing for client/server environments or who needs to find information about particular LAN components. Our LAN network tutorial offer unique benefits unavailable from other self-paced training vendors. Each course is developed using a rigorous set of criteria that includes quality content, interaction, graphics, and interspersed questions, making learning fun, interesting, and effective.

• 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

• Instructional steps -- walk through a procedure
• Exercises -- try it out
• Notes - See additional information related to the topic in the text
• Tips - See a different, faster, or easier way of doing something
• Quick References - See a quick reference guide to the features introduced in a chapter
• Details - Display more detailed information related to the current topic
• Hotwords - See related information
• Navigation Bar - Maneuver easily through the courses
• Topics and Index -- with searching feature and hyper-links
• Printable Exercises - PDF downloadable files
• Sample Application Files - PDF downloadable files
• Skill Assessment - can be used for pre and post-testing -- tracking first try, best try and grade - if passed, green check mark will appear as 'mastered' - hyperlinks to units within the course to go back and re-take a certain unit again. Use as pre-test to determine which topics you want to focus on and to go directly into that unit.

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