So a 12 year old passed the CCNA test. I suspect that many people will use this to point out how easy, or pointless, certfication is, but I believe it is a testament to education and the value of a well organised teaching system
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Arden Packeer was passing comments on his plaque….
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So its the second day, I haven’t slept much. I am stressed. I ring the family to check that everything is fine, and get ready to go for the second round.
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When I passed my CCIE in 2001, I remember both the jubilation and exhaustion of the moment. Also the loneliness, after all, my wife and children had been without a functional partner and father for more than year, and they were not there with me at the final moment.
Let me explain.
Recently, one of my Supervisor 720 goes into a permanent reboot cycle. I was able to break it into ROMMON mode, but I couldn’t get it to ’stick’ the boot settings.
Finally….
Following my original post about configuring Reverse SSH on a Cisco console server, I wanted to make some followup to extend the usage.
So after Bred Reese got on the phone to Robert Williams at Certguard and told them what to do, they have contacted Ethan Banks. Ethan has returned to the web and indicates that all is well.
I am not so forgiving.
I won’t go into the circumstances surrounding CertGuard accusing Ethan Banks of cheating. You can read articles at other Cisco Blogs. Here is my take:
Originally published at Techtarget when I sent it to them for fun. Reproduced here because I wrote it, and it still seems funny today. Note it is derivative from some joke that was around at the time.
Interestingly, much of the puns on CCIE study topics are forgotten technology as modern CCIE’s no longer study Token Ring, DLSW, Appletalk and other fine technologies.
One of the other tricks I have had to learn is how to read from a computer screen. Here are my musings on learning and reading from a computer screen instead of paper.
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In certain networks, it is difficult to get the time on your servers to be exactly the same as the NTP time on your network equipment. In this case, you want to force the Windows servers to use the same NTP Network time source as your routers and switches. But Microsoft Windows doesn’t understand NTP by default, it has its own ‘way’ of setting up NTP so you need a little tweak to make it compatible.
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Introduction
In the Blue Coat forums I often see people ask questions about SOCKS that show they haven’t taken the time to learn what it is. This is a fast introduction to what SOCKS is.
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In networking, used to describe your exalted understanding of a particular network , typically by working on it for enough time to know all the areas of the network including memorising IP addresses, architecture, connectivity. As in, I grok my network.
Also used in reference to your experience of a technology, i.e. I know multicast but I don’t grok it.
A number of Cisco Bloggers have talked about making labs available for others to use. However, part of what will be needed is some conventions to make these labs work for the largest number of people.
Following Ivan Pepelnjak posting on Private Domain Names, and an earlier posting that I made on Reserved IP Address for Testing I believe we have perfect combination for DNS and IP addresses for building live test environments, that will work for Open Source lab scenarios.
I recently needed to secure the reverse console access using Cisco IOS router. Now for many years, we have been doing this over telnet and the configuration has been straightforward. But configuring it to support SSH instead of telnet is a little bit different, awkward in fact.
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I use Monolingual to save space on the MAC OSX. Quick word on how much space you can save and how to do it.
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TLA is a recursive acronym for Three Letter Acronym.
Which is pretty funny.
eTLA - eXtended Three Letter Acronym - used to describe four letter acronym.
Which is even funnier.
Note the use of best marketing practice with dropped ‘e’. Very kewl
Who said nerds don’t have any humour.
An article I wrote on concerns about FCoE adoption has been posted at The Future of Storage and reviews seven reasons why FCoE might not achieve critical mass in the marketplace.
Feedback appreciated. Is anyone considering using FCoE in real life ?