CCNP 2.0: Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN) Exam...

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 464 pages
• Published by: Pearson Education
• Edition: 1st Edition December 5, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0130936723
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0130936721
• Book Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.2 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.4 pounds

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Cisco Remote Access: more than a "test prep" guide, a total on-the-job reference!

• Comprehensive coverage of configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cisco remote access devices
• Master Cisco remote access through real-world scenarios and a book-length case study
• Remote access solutions for telecommuters, SOHO, and branch offices
• Includes sample exam questions in every chapter

If you're a Cisco professional, you know the crucial importance of remote access-and of passing your CCNP 2.0 Remote Access Exam (640-505) on the first try! The solution: CCNP 2.0: Building Cisco Remote Access Networks (BCRAN). This book delivers start-to-finish coverage of configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting remote access connections in any Cisco environment: branch office, small/home office, and beyond.

Robert N. Myhre and Steven Dangerfield cover every exam objective, presenting scenarios that deliver hands-on practice and building your skills incrementally through a single, book-length case study. Far more than a "test prep" guide, this is your total on-the-job reference for deploying remote access and managing it securely!

• Cisco WAN connections, design, and product selection
• Configuring modem connections and remote users
• Utilizing PPP authentication, compression, callback, and multilink features
• Deploying remote access via ISDN and frame relay-step by step
• Optimizing limited bandwidth using queueing and compression
• Extending IP addresses using network address translation
• Configuring authentication, authorization, and accounting with Cisco routers and CiscoSecure
• Delivering SOHO remote access with the Cisco 700 router

About The Author


ROBERT N. MYHRE is an independent trainer and consultant who currently teaches Cisco certification courses for Ascolta Training Company and Microsoft certification courses for MindSharp. Myhre's company, Network Aware, Inc., provides training in areas not traditionally covered well by vendor courseware.

STEVEN DANGERFIELD is a consulting internetwork security analyst currently working with a major UK telecommunications and Internet Service Provider.

Reader Reviews
As I have been working to obtain several certification including CCNP I have found that material covering the Remote Access exam has been to few and far between. That's why I was very happy to obtain this book and begin to read and learn how remote access works within the Cisco world. The book is together in a straight forward and concise manner, as you'll find there are only 400 pages in the complete text, and you'll find that the complete set of exam objectives has been met and covered. Beginning with WAN and WAN communications basics and then onto the modem and the configuration process, you then work with setting up and configuring the remote access at a central site. From there you are given coverage of the PPP, its use and functions. The book shows you how to configure and setup ISDN connections, PRI and BRI and make the DDR work. Working with Cisco 700 series routers, SOHO, X.25 and Frame relay are the next set of topics to be dealt with. Rounding out the text is the use of backup with ISDN lines and the configuration of NAT, followed up with authentication, authorization and accounting. The book has over 200 practice question spread out throughout each chapter. I think that a cd with practice tests and questions would be a nice enhancement but will not detract from the book. Overall everything seems to be in this manual and looking at what is covered I think the 640-505 exam has been covered completely.