Cisco ROUTE 1.0: Implementing Path Control

Overview/Description
Policy-based routing allows administrators to route traffic along specific paths according to their needs and gives you greater flexibility in determining traffic patterns and best routes. Sometimes, simple destination-based routing is not sufficient, so in these cases you may route packets based on source address, protocol type, or application type so that they can optimally shape traffic patterns. As an administrator, understanding the collection of tools, or set of commands, that are used to manipulate the routing protocol forwarding table, and bypass the default packet forwarding, come in handy. This course explains why it is necessary to manipulate routing information in order to obtain better resiliency, performance, and availability. This course also provides an overview of these tools, configuration examples of policy-based routing, and performance issues related to path control.

Target Audience
The audience profile for SkillSoft's ROUTE 1.0: Implementing Cisco IP Routing training will be established IT professionals who have completed 640-802 Cisco Certified Network Associate, or 640-822 Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 1 and 640-816 Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices Part 2.

Expected Duration (hours)
1.0

Lesson Objectives

Cisco ROUTE 1.0: Implementing Path Control

assess path control network performance issues

use filters to determine path selection

implement path control using policy-based routing

configure and verify PBR operations

identify policy-based routing examples

configure policy-based routing