IPv4 Addressing, Subnetting, Routing, IP Services, and Quality of Service
2-Day Instructor Led Hands On Lab Class
Available in either Web-Based Delivery or On-Site Delivery
Minimum 10 students – Maximum 16 students
Course Description
IPv4 remains one of the fundamental technologies behind modern networking. Enterprise networks, broadband networks, service-provider infrastructures, data centers, cloud environments, and countless customer networks continue to depend upon IPv4 addressing, routing, and TCP/IP operation.
For anyone responsible for installing, supporting, designing, operating, or troubleshooting networks, understanding IPv4 requires much more than simply knowing what an IP address looks like. Network professionals need to understand how addressing and subnetting work, how packets are forwarded between networks, how routing protocols exchange reachability information, how different IP services use the network, and how Quality of Service can be applied when traffic has different performance requirements.
This hands-on course develops those practical TCP/IPv4 networking skills.
Students learn through a combination of instructor-led explanation, network configuration, systems analysis, and hands-on exercises using Cisco-based routing lab systems. The labs allow students to configure, observe, verify, and experiment with the concepts discussed throughout the course.
Rather than simply memorizing commands, addresses, subnet masks, and terminology, students learn how IPv4 networks work and why they behave the way they do.
Throughout the course, students answer practical questions such as:
- How does the TCP/IP protocol suite operate?
- How do Layer 3 and Layer 4 work together?
- How does IPv4 addressing work?
- How do subnet masks define networks and hosts?
- How do I calculate and design IPv4 subnets?
- How does a router determine where to forward an IP packet?
- What is the difference between interior and exterior routing protocols?
- How are OSPF and BGP used to exchange routing information?
- How does IP support unicast and multicast services?
- How are voice and video services carried across IP networks?
- Why does Quality of Service matter?
- How do scheduling, marking, and policing affect IP traffic?
- How does IPv4 relate to IPv6 and modern dual-protocol networks?
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the fundamental operation of the TCP/IP protocol suite.
- Relate the TCP/IP architecture to the OSI layered networking model.
- Explain the roles of Layer 3 and Layer 4 protocols.
- Read and interpret IPv4 addresses and subnet masks.
- Identify network and host portions of an IPv4 address.
- Calculate and design IPv4 subnets.
- Apply IPv4 addressing and subnetting concepts to practical network designs.
- Configure and verify IPv4 addressing in a hands-on network environment.
- Explain how IP routers forward packets between networks.
- Understand the purpose of routing tables and route selection.
- Explain the difference between Interior Gateway Protocols and Exterior Gateway Protocols.
- Understand the basic operation and application of OSPF.
- Understand the basic operation and application of BGP.
- Configure and observe routing operation through hands-on exercises.
- Explain basic IP unicast operation.
- Understand the purpose and operation of IP multicast.
- Describe the networking requirements associated with Voice over IP.
- Describe the networking requirements associated with Video over IP.
- Explain why Quality of Service is important in IP networks.
- Understand fundamental QoS scheduling techniques.
- Explain IP traffic marking and classification concepts.
- Explain traffic policing concepts.
- Configure and observe fundamental IP Quality of Service functions.
- Describe the relationship between IPv4 and IPv6.
The emphasis throughout the course is on connecting protocol concepts to actual network behavior. Hands-on exercises reinforce the material and help students develop skills that can be directly applied to operational networks.
Audience
This course is designed for technical professionals who need a practical understanding of TCP/IP and IPv4 networking.
Ideal participants include:
- Broadband and Service Provider Technicians
- Field Technicians
- Central Office Technicians
- Network Engineers
- Network Administrators
- Network Operations Center personnel
- Customer Support and Technical Support personnel
- Network Design Engineers
- Network Management and Operations personnel
- Systems and Test Engineers
- IT Professionals
- Technical Sales Engineers
- Technical Marketing personnel
- Individuals preparing for networking certifications
The course is particularly valuable for anyone who installs, configures, supports, operates, designs, or troubleshoots IPv4-based networks and services.
Course Prerequisites
No previous in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP or IPv4 is required.
A general familiarity with computers, networking, Ethernet, or telecommunications is helpful, but the course is designed to build the necessary IPv4 knowledge from the fundamentals upward.
Students will use a hands-on router lab throughout the course. Students participating remotely should have a computer capable of connecting to the provided lab environment.
For on-site classes, students should bring a laptop computer unless suitable classroom computers are being provided.
Course Materials
Students receive:
- Course Student Guide
- Access to the course routing lab environment
- IPv4 addressing and subnetting exercises
- Routing configuration exercises
- Quality of Service exercises
The combination of reference material, instructor explanation, and hands-on exercises is designed to reinforce both the knowledge and the practical skills developed during the course.
Course Outline
- Part 1: The Groundwork
- Overview and Introductions
- Introduction to the Internet
- Access and Applications of IP
- LAB: Getting set up for Internetworking to our Lab Network
- Part 2: The TCP IP Stack Operation
- The Layer 4 protocols
- Layer 3 IP and Addressing
- LAB: IP Addressing Exercise
- IP Subnet Addressing
- LAB: IP Subnet Addressing Exercises
- The Next Generation IP Overview – IPv6
- Part 3: IP Routing and Packet Forwarding
- Basics of IP Routing
- Interior and Exterior Gateway Protocols
- LAB: OSPF and BGP routing protocols
- Part 4: IP Services
- Basic IP Unicast Service
- IP Multicast Service
- IP Voice Service
- IP Video Services
- Part 5: Delivering Quality of Service with IP Networks
- Basics of QoS
- Scheduling
- Marking
- Policing
- LAB: QoS Lab
Related Training
CSI-HO-001 provides a strong foundation for additional study in IP networking.
Students who want to continue developing their IP networking skills may want to progress into:
- Advanced TCP/IP and IP networking training
- IPv6 Fundamentals
- Advanced IPv6
- MPLS
- Ethernet networking
- Routing protocol training
- Network troubleshooting and packet-analysis training
The IPv4 addressing, subnetting, routing, and TCP/IP knowledge developed in this course also provides an excellent foundation for networking certification programs and more advanced network engineering topics.
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