When is the Update Coming Finally the announcement is here, CCIE RS v5 is going live on June 4, 2014. That means that the last day to take both the written and the lab for v4 is June 3, 2014.
Routing-bits SP handbook now available
We are many CCIE RS candidates that have used Ruhanns RS handbook to aid us in passing the CCIE lab. Ruhann has now released a SP handbook as well to aid all SP candidates. Who is Ruhann? Ruhann du Plessis
CCIE plaque
I received my CCIE plaque a while back. This is what it looks like. Good luck to everyone pursuing the CCIE and one day you will have one of these as well
Becoming a CCIE – the path and cost associated to my number
While on IRC I had a request to describe my journey and the costs associated with becoming a CCIE. Becoming a CCIE is not cheap but I’ve worked for great companies that have covered all of my costs. I first
CCIE #37149 – My passing lab experience
So by now you know that I passed my lab in Brussels yesterday. Here is my story. I arrived at monday in Brussels around 13.30. I took a walk in the beautiful weather to the lab location. By now I
CCIE #37149
Hey guys! I’m back from Brussels and I passed the lab! I am now CCIE #37149. I’ll write a longer post tomorrow
Catalyst QoS – A deeper look at the egress queues
I’ve done a post earlier on Catalyst QoS. That described how to configure the QoS features on the Catalyst but I didn’t describe in detail how the buffers work on the Catalyst platform. In this post I will go into
A look at NAT – inside, outside and NAT on a stick
This post will describe how NAT works. The reason for doing a blog post on NAT is twofold. There is a lack of good documents out there describing NAT and I want to do some learning for myself as well.
ASBR in NSSA – Choosing what IP to use as forwarding address
OSPF is one of the protocols where the details are very important. It has lots of bits and pieces to make it run in a proper way. I have described the forwarding address in an earlier post and this time
Some important details of BGP
We start out with a basic topopology of 3 routers. R2 and R3 will peer to each others loopback. I have setup OSPF for full reachability in the network. First we test connectivity. R2#ping 3.3.3.3 so lo0 Type escape sequence