Category: Studying

  • I’ve already done one post regarding EIGRP, but I said I was going to do a second post going over a few more advanced topics regarding EIGRP routing protocol. Check out my previous EIGRP post by clicking here. EIGRP uses Hello packets to check that their neighbors are still active,…

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  • OSPF stands for Open Shortest Path First it is an interior gateway routing protocol. OSPF is a link-state routing protocol. OSPF is my go to protocol that I like working with, OSPF is not a vendor specific protocol, a number of vendors also run OSPF on their networking devices, I’ve…

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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 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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  • Routes! Routes tell network packets how to traffic across the network to get to their required destination by picking the best path. There are three different types of routes such as default routes, static routes and dynamic routes. Each one has its own pros and cons.  Routes are stored in…

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  • VLANS stands for Virtual Local Area Network they are configured to break up networks in to logically segments into multiple broadcast domains. VLANS can be used to group like devices together such as end user devices, VOIP/Video devices, printers, services or separate traffic from different departments, in some ISP environments…

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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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  • 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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