Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to Cisco Routers for the Desperate! While network and system administrators know that they should intimately understand every piece of equipment in their control, in the real world, we all become most familiar with the things that require the most care and feeding. We all spend more time than we'd like arguing with buggy operating systems and vexing applications, and as a result, we are painfully familiar with their foibles. Cisco routers "just work" almost all the time, so we don't get much chance to become familiar with them. This gives the router a certain air of the "mysterious black box."

When the router actually breaks, ...

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