Welcome back, everyone. Let's see what we're going to talk about now. We'll learn how to convert cider or classless inter domain routing to dotted decimal numbering. That's what they call it now not dotted decimal. Oh, I forgot what to solder to ddn. Right, we're gonna learn how to convert that.

Very simple, very easy to do. extremely important. planning your infrastructure. Now, we're not gonna go into all the CCNP CCIE levels of planning and infrastructure are definitely going to talk a little bit about planning. All right before you just can't walk into a building and say, all right, yeah, when the wires run from here to there. Yeah, we'll put a computer here.

Yeah, might as well put a switch over here. We'll put a server over there. You need to plan need to understand your equipment. You need to understand how traffic may flow, the where you're going to put your wiring closet right? Way back in the day, they used to talk about IDs. I don't know why they stopped IDs and MDs intermediate distribution facilities or main distribution facilities, okay.

We're, that's where your routers and your servers and the other ones would be just switches, switches, switches, and patch panels. So you need to understand, okay, we need to understand those things have changed since back the influence on age, we need to plan and even back then you had to plan what you have to do is very important. Yes, I'm stressing it. I'm stressing it. Wait to plan what we need to do. And then we're going to go ahead.

We'll do probably a couple labs on assigning IP addresses to your nodes to your PCs to your routers. Okay. I'll do a little bit of router configuration. Right. We'll go in there. And you'll see the labs though I'm talking about right so Enough said let's go in there and start doing this stuff in the next