Audience
This guide is intended for use by network administrators who are responsible for
installing and setting up network equipment.
It assumes a basic working knowledge of the following:
- Local area networks (LANs).
- Ethernet concepts.
- Ethernet switching and bridging concepts.
- Routing concepts.
- Internet Protocol (IP) concepts.
- Routing Information Protocol (RIP), Open Shortest Path First
(OSPF), and Intermediate System-Intermediate System (IS-IS) concepts.
- Border Gateway Protocol (BGP-4) concepts.
- IP Multicast concepts.
- Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) concepts.
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
