I’m back from London and it’s been a great experience. Many readers are interested in what the bootcamp is like. It is a big investment to go for so it is understandable that you want to know if it will
INE 10 day bootcamp – First 5 days done
So we have the first 5 days completed now and it is time for some relaxing in the weekend and a bit of labbing as well. So far it has been great. Brian Dennis is both a great teacher and
INE – 10 day bootcamp
Hey guys, On sunday I’m leaving for London. I’m attending INEs 10 day bootcamp. Hopefully this will be the next step in my studies. I hope to learn a lot and to meet a few new buddies as well. I’m
Route redistribution – Route-maps and tagging
Earlier I have done some posts on route redistribution and on route filtering in different protocols. I wanted to expand on this by showing different ways we can tag and do filtering with route-maps when doing route redistribution. We start
RIP – request and response packets
I was discussing the other day with someone on IRC about a RIP issue he had. Apparently he had RIP request packets coming in and then all routers were responding with response packets with full routing table. It seemed like
RIP MD5 authentication – mismatch in key ID
This is an interesting fact I just found out. When we configure MD5 authentication for RIP they key-ID and key-string must match, this is well known. But what happens if we actually configure the wrong key-ID? Take a look at
OSPF – Use of forwarding address
In OSPF and other routing protocols we have something called forwarding address. This can be used to route traffic in another direction than to the router that originated the LSA. We start with the following topology. It’s a basic OSPF
Some interesting facts of OSPF
OK so clearly I haven’t been updating a lot lately due to my very busy situation. I’m sorry for that but my former colleague Henri keeps nagging me for an update so I decided to write on some interesting tidbits
OSPF: Anatomy of a routing protocol
To become a CCIE you need detailed knowledge of OSPF. Most candidates will have read the TCP/IP Volumes by Doyle and maybe even the RFC written by J Moy. This book is also written by J Moy and it is
Cisco Live – Great resource for CCIE studies
Hey guys, I’m at home enjoying the time with my family which as you have seen has just grown with a new member 🙂 Cisco Live US was just held in San Diego and now the sessions have been uploaded.