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January 2012
6 posts
Listen up my OSPF peeps, it’s time to cut your teeth with IS-IS. I wrote up a quick primer and comparison to help those more OSPF inclined to understand how IS-IS functions. It is a fun protocol – not as fun as BGP – but fun nonetheless. Enjoy!
I have complied a list of 21 things that all engineers need to hear. No exceptions! Read slowly and carefully to the random blabbering.
Have you ever wondered how many VLAN, tunnel or sub-interfaces you could configure on a particular device? Honestly, I never thought I would hit a limit, or cared until I found out about “show idb”.
As it turns out, our beloved Cisco gear has a finite number of interfaces that can be configured on any particular device. This includes physical, sub, and tunneled interfaces. As well as SVIs.
This week I put up another guest post on Packet Pushers. I was inspired while listening to Show 63 and I wanted to add to the conversation. Follow the link and see what all the “chin flapping” is about.
I passed my TSHOOT today, hooray! Now I am officially CCNP certified and better yet, I can start my IE studies. It has been a long time coming and what better way to kick it off by getting my reading list together.
I found a ton of suggestions but what follows is - I believe - the best compiled reading list on the Internet.