Damion, Paul already mentioned the CCNA study material and I would second that. I just completed the ICND1 course and that would cover most of what you are after. ICND2 gets into more details related to OSPF and EIGRP, STP, etc.
Doug mentioned OSPF and that would definitely be good to know, though if you are all Cisco, EIGRP is another good option and tends to be a bit easier to configure (other than the authentication part). EIGRP is proprietary though, so learn OSPF if you need to interoperate with other vendor's equipment. If you are a fan of training rather than all reading, I can recommend getting a "Cisco Technologies All Access" subscription at The Training Consortium (http://ttclive.com/). This is online training, both live and recorded, where you can go through as many official Cisco courses as you like in a 1 year span. You have access to online books, the class material, practice exams, virtual labs, etc. -Nate On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Damion Alexander wrote: > Greetings, > > I just added the networking group (better stated: person) to my newly > formed group of Sys Admins. I am pretty savvy with Systems, but I can > only play a network person on TV. > > Could someone point me in some good directions to get up to speed on > networking (we use all cisco gear) so that I can truly support my > networking person? > > I'm decent with the levels 4 and above of the OSI networking model, but > my knowledge starts to plummet below that. I would like to be able to > discuss our current network design, and ways to improve it. Also being > able to assist on network problems would be good too. > > Thanks in advance, > > Damion > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
