802.1 Q-in-Q tunneling is a technique that can extend a VLAN from one data center to another without AToM or VPLS. Essentially, Q-in-Q tunneling adds another .1q tag to your packet as it traverses the Service Providers network. This keeps your traffic segregated from any other company, following the same principle of how VLANs segregate […]
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I wanted to post this a few days ago, I have completed my CCIE home lab. The lab consists of the following devices; Here is a photo
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This blog is coming from sunny and humid Jacksonville, Florida. Today, we will look at controlling the RIP routing domain using Offset-Lists and Administrative Distance. We must remember that RIP is a distance-vector routing protocol with no idea what the network topology looks like. With this, we can trick RIP into thinking a network is
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So today, I checked to see if I could schedule the lab, and I was able to. Thinking I couldn’t get the date I had in mind, I searched for it. San Jose had no open seats, but RTP had 5. I just struck gold, and it was meant to be; I registered for the
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Well, I passed the CCIE R&S Written test today. It was a mixed bag for me, a lot easier than my first test two weeks ago, but my wife kept telling me tonight that a pass is a pass. For the next few days, I am working on a project file outlining how I will
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As you may tell by the blog title, I took my CCIE R&S Written test today and did not come out victorious. Without breaking any NDA’s, I just barely failed, which usually would upset me, but I know where my faults are and where I did very well. I also attempted to take a test
EIGRP Feature Summary EIGRP Updates Once routers are adjacent, they can exchange EIGRP update messages, which follow; EIGRP uses Reliable Transport Protocol (RTP) to send multicast EIGRP updates. EIGRP sends updates and waits for a unicast ACK reply from the neighbor the update was sent. If an ASK is not received in the Retransmission Timeout
IP forwarding is how packets go from one side of the network to the other. It is also known as IP routing. So we can have a base understanding, let’s look at the diagram below. How does the R3 know how to forward the telnet packet to R1? Fast Switching and Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)
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When dealing with IP services, you deal with service elements of the IP protocol carried on the IP datagram stream. Some of the IP services we are looking at; ARP We are first going to look at ARP. ARP maps IP addresses to MAC addresses. Before a host can send data, it must do an
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Whether we are talking about EtherChannels or PortChannels, we are talking about the same technology. That technology is a way to allow you to treat multiple physical links as one link to Spanning-Tree, and you can also do some load-balancing on them. There are two types of port channels. They can be a layer 2
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