Cisco Systems RJ-45-to-AUX manual Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Cisco Switching Black Book	1
Introduction	4
Overview	4
Is This Book for You?	4
How to Use This Book	4
The Black Book Philosophy	5
Chapter 1: Network Switching Fundamentals	6
In Depth	6
Physical Media and Switching Types	6
A Bit of History	7
Networking Architectures	7
The Pieces of Technology	9
Repeaters	10
Hubs	10
Bridges	11
Routers	13
Switches	13
Network Design	14
Collision Domains	15
Broadcast Domains	16
Why Upgrade to Switches?	16
Switched Forwarding	19
Switched Network Bottlenecks	20
The Rule of the Network Road	22
Switched Ethernet Innovations	23
Full−Duplex Ethernet	23
Fast Ethernet	23
Gigabit Ethernet	24
The Cisco IOS	24
Connecting to the Switch	25
Powering Up the Switch	25
The Challenges	27
Today’s Trend	27
Entering and Exiting Privileged EXEC Mode	28
Entering and Exiting Global Configuration Mode	28
Entering and Exiting Interface Configuration Mode	28
Entering and Exiting Subinterface Configuration Mode	28
Saving Configuration Changes	29
Chapter 2: Basic Switch Configuration	30
In Depth	30
Command−Line Interfaces	30
Campus Hierarchical Switching Model	31
Access Layer	32
Distribution Layer	32
Core Layer	33
Remote Network Monitoring	33
Connecting to the Console Port	34
Console Cable Pinouts	35
Console Connectors	36

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