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  • EIGRP

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    EIGRP stands for Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol, it’s a cisco proprietary protocol that is developed by cisco, however now of days it’s been open up to other platforms. I’m only going to be over IPv4 at this time. EIGRP exchange routing information to form neighbours to dynamically learn and maintain…

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  • Cisco Unified Communications Manager & Cisco Unity Connection

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    Cisco enterprise phone system is known as Cisco Unified Communications Manager combine with Cisco Unity Connection. I will admit I’m no expert at either of these systems, but I have worked with both Call Manager and Cisco Unity out in the real world, and I’ve had some training on them.…

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  • Spanning tree protocol

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    With the scaling of today’s networks switches end up connecting to each other, sometimes a switch is connected to a switch to for more access ports in a growing office or connected for redundancy between switches, if a link fails traffic can go through one of the other links that…

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  • Home Labs – Hardware Vs software

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    Home Lab Setup for CCNA/CCNP/Networking There is always “the great debate” when you’re studying for your certification exams if you should build your lab with hardware or software. In my opinion, what I have done is gone with both. I think you should have 2-3 routers, 2 switches and sometime…

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  • all in one lab

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    This is my currently all in one labs that I’ve setup for my studying for my 300-410 ENARSI This lab allows me to configure a number of protocols OSPF, EIGRP and BGP.  I’ve configured route redistribution between OSPF to BGP and BGP to EIGRP allowing me to ping across the…

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  • How DHCP Works

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    In order for your device to connect to the outside world (internet) it requires an IP address. In order to obtain an IP address a DHCP server is required. Your device sends out a broadcast message looking for a DHCP server. Which is the start of the process your device…

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  • My Lab

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    For my Networking training lab, I have a mix of hardware and software, my hardware is old and a bit out of date, my routers have Serial connections, I could run a Frame Relay lab! However, they do what I want need to, and I will be replacing my routers…

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