Routing IPv6 with BGP - The Basics
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Are you sensing a theme lately? Since we covered the basics of the main IGPs (I’m an enterprise guy, so no IS-IS comments, please.), I thought I’d try to describe the basics of advertising …
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Stubby Post - Changes to CCNA Voice, CCVP, and CCSP
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I don’t usually cover news from Cisco, but they’ve changed some certification stuff around again, and I thought I would bring it up. This time they’ve changed the CCNA Voice, CCVP, …
IIUC Notes - Powering Cisco Phones
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Feel free to correct anything that is wrong or incomplete. Power over Ethernet (PoE) Can provide power to a Cisco phone, access point, security camera, etc., through the network cabling, eliminating …
Stubby Post - Packetlife's Community Lab
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I’m way behind in talking about this, but Jeremy Stretch over at Packetlife.net has a community lab that is free to use. This is a great resource for those of us who are too poor to have their …
Stubby Post - Cabling and EtherChannel
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I’ve done it. You’ve done it. We’ve all done it. You turn up another EtherChannel bundle and realize the hard way that your interface descriptions aren’t accurate. Or …
Stubby Post - What's an IDB?
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I posed the philosophical question on Twitter the other day asking if single trunk links should be in an EtherChannel bundle just in case you need to expand later. I didn’t really expect an …
Catalyst 3750s - Bad Luck with a Cisco Logo
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Last week, @fletcherjoyce posted an article on his blog about his positive experiences with Cisco’s 3750 switches. If you follow my complaints tweets, you know that I’ve had quite the …