Lots of great monitoring and management topics were covered today at MMS 2011. It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Las Vegas today, and I write this as I am looking out a giant window with a view of the desert. A perfectly relaxing time to write down my experience of day 3.
First up today, breakfast! Then off to the first of two keynote speeches.
So I arrived yesterday for the yearly Microsoft Management Summit. Man, what a long day. Left the house at 1:30, didn’t hit the sack at the Luxor until 10:00pm.
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BGP is one of the most complex topics you’ll study when pursuing your CCNP, if not the most complex. One thing to keep in mind though, is that no Cisco technology is impossible to understand if you just break it down and understand the basics before you start trying to understand the more complex configurations.
One of the most common questions I get from CCNA and CCNP candidates who are setting up their own home labs is “What cables will I need?” The answer is “It depends.” As you know from your exam studies, the physical layout of your lab is what determines the cables you’ll need. Let’s take a look at the… Read More »
DNS behaviors of a Cisco router are important topics for both the CCNA exam and real-world production networks, and you probably didn’t know there were so many DNS details before you began studying for the exam! In this tutorial, we’ll look at the ip name-server command and its proper usage.
Preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this important Cisco certification? Route summarization is just one of the many skills you’ll have to master in order to earn your CCNA. Whether it’s RIP version 2, OSPF, or EIGRP, the CCNA exam will demand that you can flawlessly configure route summarization.
One of the first things you do when you start studying for the CCNA exam is memorizing a list of port numbers and the protocols that run on those ports. If you’re an experienced networker, you know most of the protocols that are mentioned – DNS, DHCP, FTP, SMTP, and so on. But there’s one protocol that you… Read More »