Phase 2

Implementing and Configuring the Design

In this phase of the installation of your internetwork, you conduct a series of tasks aimed at perfecting and erecting the design you began in Phase 1. Here, you will configure the addressing you designed as well as put together a naming convention for your network components. You have the opportunity in this phase to delve into the red-hot world of wireless networking, including the distant cousin to wireless networking, Bluetooth. Configuration of analog and DSL modems gives you a way to attach a non-networked device to the network through a remote-access connection. Finally, a couple of tricks with Cisco routers are presented for the convenience and cost savings they can afford the network administrator.