News: Antonie Henning Passed!

Thanks for visiting! If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. This blog posts regular tutorials, news, and study tips about networking, especially about Cisco CCIE related topics. Go ahead, subscribe to the feed! You can also receive updates from this blog via email. Thanks for visiting!Antonie Henning, the blogger [...]

Keith Tokash CCIE#21236

Keith passed! Well deserved. He’s built a monster gaming rig and celebrating right now. Head on over to CCIECandidate and congratulate him!
“F*&^ this lab! That’s right, right where it hurts. I decided that if the lab exam was a person I was going to do the equivalent of knocking its damned teeth into its [...]

BGP Best Path Selection Algorithm

I found this great link from Richard Bannister’s CCIE Blog. Richard has put together a great BGP Best Path Selection flow chart that details the order in which a path is chosen. Great work!

CCIE Job Search Article

Emmanuel Conde has written a fantastic article on job search considerations when you are a CCIE. Emmanuel is a CCIE recruitment guru who specializes in locating CCIEs and Senior Network Professionals for Cisco Systems and their international Partners. Next time I’m in the job market I know where I’ll be going for help! Awesome work [...]

IPexpert 2008 Networkers Party!

If you are heading out to Cisco Networkers in Orlando be sure to check out IPexpert’s 2008 Networkers Party on Monday night (June 23rd).
They are giving away $100,000+ in prizes including: 8 CCIE “End-to-End” All-Inclusive Training Programs ($10K+ value each!), 10 of IPexpert’s NEWLY-RELEASED Blended Learning Solutions ($1600+ value each!) and 5 CCIE [...]

Public Apology from Robert Williams, CEO of CertGuard

Robert Williams from CertGuard has issued a formal public apology to Ethan and the CCIE community. I’m glad we can now put an end to this soap opera and the rest of us can get back to studying and writing articles for the CCIE community.

Return of the Jedi…Ethan’s Back!

Ethan’s back…
Great response from the CCIE Community. I posted my take on the whole fiasco here, and I am glad if it helped in any way. In the end common sense and justice prevailed. The reputation of both NetworkWorld and CertGuard has been severely tarnished by this, and I hope CertGuard and Robert Williams are [...]

IP Routing Protocols FAQs

I was trolling through the Cisco website and I found this awesome list of Freqently asked questions created by Cisco in its IP Routing Technology Q&A webpage. Check them out, they are definitely recommended reading for a CCIE candidate:

IP Routing: Frequently Asked Questions,
BGP: Frequently Asked Questions,
OSPF: Frequently Asked Questions,
EIGRP: Frequently Asked Questions,
ODR: Frequently Asked Questions.

IPexpert on Twitter

Looks like IPexpert is on twitter! They’ve got a promotion on there with $2500 off security and voice bootcamps! Awesome! Follow them here: http://twitter.com/ipexpert
 

Accessing your console lines with Reverse SSH

Greg Ferro from My EtherealMind has a great article on IOS Reverse SSH console access. We use reverse telnet access here for all our lab equipment access and I always wondered (but never had time to investigate) whether we could do reverse ssh. Looks like I’ve just given myself more work to do. Thanks [...]

U.U.U Ping Response

Ever wonder why you get a U.U.U ping response time instead of a UUUUU for icmp unreachable messages? Well wonder no more! Packetlife has a great article dissecting the U.U.U ping response. I knew about icmp rate-limit but I never put two and two together before reading the article. Awesome!

Internetwork Expert Twitter

Looks like Internetwork Expert has set up a twitter account. You can follow them here: http://twitter.com/InternetworkExp

Lots of Dynamips / Dynagen Sample Lab Topologies

I was browsing through my collection of resources and I found a great collection of sample Dynamips / Dynagen topologies to play around with. You can download most of the common lab topologies from the various training vendors as Dynagen .net files. This would be an awesome collection of resources for someone studying for Cisco [...]

Awesome Collection of Cisco Links

Michael Morris has updated his blog on NetworkWorld.com with a HUGE collection of useful cisco related links. Found a few gems in there!

Victor Cappuccio Passed!

Looks like another one of the bloggers I read regularly has passed: Congratulations Victor Cappuccio CCIE#20657! Man, all these CCIE bloggers passing…not that I didn’t feel enough pressure already! :)

Internetwork Expert Brainteaser #1 Solution

Richard Bannister has proposed 4 solutions to the Internetwork Expert Brainteaser. They are great examples, especially on how to match certain fields of a Layer3 packet using Cisco Flexible Packet Matching (FPM).

Ethan Passed!!! CCIE #20655

Head on over to Ethan Banks blog and congratulate him on getting his CCIE! That is awesome news. Well done Ethan CCIE #20655!

List of Configuration Registers and what they do…

Here is a list of all the configuration registers that you can use in ROMMON and what they do.

DocCD Reading List

I was putting together some notes on what DocCD chapters I should read and I found this from Internetwork Expert: CCIE R&S DocCD Recommended Reading List. Now why didn’t I know about this before!? :)

NetKit - Full Network Emulation on Linux

Just found about NetKit thanks to a follower on twitter (I’m starting to love twitter!).
“Netkit has been conceived as an environment for setting up and performing networking experiments at low cost and with little effort. It allows to “create” several virtual network devices (full-fledged routers, switches, computers, etc.) that can be easily interconnected in [...]

New Version of Dynagen Out!

Version 0.11.0 of Dynagen has just been released. The Dynagen tutorial has also been updated with info on how to set up PIX emulation. This is great news for those preparing for their security CCIE (and for those of us who want to play!). Check out the release notes here.

Geek Humour….

nslookup 69.69.69.69
Try it. lol

MPLS VPN Tutorial

Human Modem has published part 2 of his fantastic MPLS VPN articles. The tutorial is great if you are just starting out studying for your CCIP or just want to get started with MPLS VPN’s. Looking forward to the rest of the series!

Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols Video Part 2

InformIT has posted Part 2 of the video interview with Zaheer Aziz, author of the Cisco Press title “Trouble shooting IP Routing Protocols”. Zaheer talks about learning how to solve complex IP routing problems and explore protocol-specific debugging tricks that speed up problem resolution. Check out the video here.

Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols Video

InformIT has an interview with Zaheer Aziz, author of the Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols book from Cisco Press. From the article: “Zaheer Aziz shares valuable insights from his book ‘Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols,’ the comprehensive, hands-on guide for resolving IP routing problems. Learn troubleshooting techniques that keep your network operating at peak performance”. Check out [...]