I get a lot of requests from students asking how they can practice some of the topics I teach on my Cisco courses. Cisco equipment can be pretty expensive especially when you are starting out your networking career, and not having anything to practice on makes that barrier to entry that much higher. Enter Dynamips. Dynamips is a Cisco hardware emulator. Its like VMWare for Cisco! It emulates a basic Cisco hardware platform so all you need to add is an IOS.
Whats On Your Mind – Using Mind Maps for study.
I was playing around with Mindomo (which is an awesome online mind map creator) and I whipped up a QoS mind map. The interface for Mindomo takes a bit of getting used to, but its a fantastic study tool. Mind maps are a great way to [...]
During the CCIE lab (or in real life!) it is useful to test connectivity between all your routers. You might have just configured redistribution or completed all your IGP configuration and BGP configuration and want to make sure that you still have full connectivity. We could go to each router and systematically ping each address [...]