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INE v5 Full-Scale Practice Lab1 TS GNS3 topology

How does the internet work - We know what is networking

Few days ago I added an article with Config GNS3 topology for newly published INE Routing and Switching Workbook v5 Full-Scale LAB1. Here’s now the topology with starting config of TS section for LAB1. I will not insert here any of my stories today as the same article was published before but with other topology files so if you would like more info, just go to previous post INE R&Sv5 Workbook Full-Scale Practice Lab1 made in GNS3 DOWNLOAD Everything should work fine in this lab except OSPF Loop-Free Alternate Fast Reroute which is not supported so you will be unable

INE v5 Full-Scale Practice Lab1 TS GNS3 topology

When they throw a Cisco guy to do something with HP networking gear

How does the internet work - We know what is networking

…There’s a nice little pdf to get you through HP is aware that most of networking engineers start their learning process in Cisco Networking Academy. Is is a normal course of events if you want to learn networking. Cisco has the very best study materials and best, carefully developed syllabus that is both high quality […]

When they throw a Cisco guy to do something with HP networking gear

INE R&Sv5 Workbook Full-Scale Practice Lab1 made in GNS3

How does the internet work - We know what is networking

Yesterday INE finally added a Full-Scale LAB in their new CCIE Route and Switching blueprint 5 workbook. I realized this morning that you maybe don’t want to spend half of your day (like me) configuring this topology in GNS3. Better to just take it from here and start your lab right away. In my study […]

INE R&Sv5 Workbook Full-Scale Practice Lab1 made in GNS3

What is the difference between tunnel | transport mode in IPsec

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Intro IPsec making VPN connection possible. I enables to basically simulate a leased line across public Internet and thus enable us to get secure connection across unsecured environment. It enables encryption, authentication and protection of our data when sent across insecurity of the world’s biggest internetwork – Internet. It’s the cheap way to simulate a leased […]

What is the difference between tunnel | transport mode in IPsec

BGP dampening – punishment for unstable BGP prefixes

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BGP prefix flapping can be caused by different issues in network. Basically every unstable network where links are unreliably and are going up and down here and there can cause BGP prefix flapping. Every prefix flap will cause some networks to became unreachable. BGP process will then need to recalculate best-path in order to hopefully […]

BGP dampening – punishment for unstable BGP prefixes

Source-based routing in IPv4 and IPv6 networks

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In my current studies I did some work about security inside networking data paths. In my recent work I tried to get some experiments done that needed to use source based routing in order to be completed. Like most of scientific work that tries to get from paper to experiment and then to something useful, it failed […]

Source-based routing in IPv4 and IPv6 networks

VXLAN – Virtual Extensible LAN

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As the time goes by and the network with more and more virtualised servers and other devices are making that network more complicated, overlay technologies are rising to save the day for network administrators. Virtual Extensible LAN – VXLAN is a new encapsulation technology used to run an overlay network on current Layer 3 communication […]

VXLAN – Virtual Extensible LAN

Redundant Default Gateway solutions in IPv4 networks

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This article is an introduction to different default gateway solutions. Those technologies are enabling devices on IPv4 local subnets to have more than one Default gateway configured or at least some configuration that make them work half the way of ideal redundant solution. Idea behind this article is to be an introduction to a set […]

Redundant Default Gateway solutions in IPv4 networks

ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol

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ICMP protocol is a bunch of error, queries and response messages that are helping us every day to troubleshoot and manage our networks. At least if you found yourself in a networking engineer role. Network protocol “ICMP” is known as a control protocol because it is used for the purpose of administration and management within an […]

ICMP – Internet Control Message Protocol

Troubleshooting EIGRP Neighbor Relationships

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EIGRP internals and getting hands dirty in debugging routing adjacency and solving EIGRP neighboring issues. What is sequence TLV and Conditional Receive CR-mode and CR flag Couple of days ago I got a strange network behavior in my CCIE lab. Something was wrong between a router and L3 switch connection and there was EIGRP neighbor […]

Troubleshooting EIGRP Neighbor Relationships

CCIE RS v5 blueprint will be announced this month?

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Please note that this article is more or less pure speculation. The fact is that CCIE R&S v5 blueprint will be presented 28th January 2014 on Milan’s Cisco live event everything else is yet to be announced. From Milan’s Cisco live 28.1.2014 there is an CCIE R&S v5 blueprint event scheduled. When Cisco wants to […]

CCIE RS v5 blueprint will be announced this month?

Forwarding UDP broadcast traffic mechanisms

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We will speak here about some basics about Forwarding UDP broadcast traffic. If you were wondering what Forwarding UDP broadcast traffic actually is I will try to explain it here in few words. If you have more that one broadcast domains in your local network, let’s say that you have three VLANs. In normal networking theory it’s normal […]

Forwarding UDP broadcast traffic mechanisms

MPTCP – Multipath TCP

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Intro Multipath TCP is an extension of TCP that will soon be standardized by IETF. It is a succesful attempt to resolve major TCP shortcomings emerged from the change in the way we use our devices to communicate. There’s particularly the change in the way our new devices like iPhones and laptops are talking across network. All the devices […]

MPTCP – Multipath TCP

Administrative Distance for Static Route is 1 or 0?

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There are different documents and books which are claiming that Administrative distance for static routes configured using exit interface is 1 and for the static route configured using next-hop IP address Administrative distance is 0. R1(config)#ip route 20.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 10.10.2.1 R1(config)#ip route 20.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 fastEthernet 0/0 This is not true. Both of them are having AD […]

Administrative Distance for Static Route is 1 or 0?