Posts by: Calin

Black Friday 2011 – 50% Off on INE bundles

By On November 25, 2011 · Leave a Comment

If anybody is interested in buying INE products, do it now. I’ve got the following marketing e-mail. The prices are pretty good I must admit:

The Best CCIE Training at Over 50% Off

From now until Monday enjoy the best CCIE Training at a fraction of the price.

CCIE R&S Bundle CCIE [...]

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Free streaming course CCNA 640-802 from INE

By On November 23, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I’m sure that a lot of people out there got this info already, but for those who are not part of INE newsletter or did not check yet their website, this information may be interesting. I add below their full announcement:

Get a FREE streaming CCNA R&S Exam Course! That’s right! From now until the [...]

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Home lab for CCIE exam training

By On November 17, 2011 · 5 Comments

Before I started with my preparation I was in front of a dilemma. I knew that I will need a rack to practice for CCIE training and I had two options: remote rack rental or home rack.

I put together side by side all pluses and minuses about the two options, but somehow I couldn’t [...]

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New blog section – Certification

By On November 17, 2011 · Leave a Comment

I don’t know how many of my blog visitors had the curiosity to visit the About section to read something about me. If some of you did read that section, then you already know that I have several certifications from Cisco and other vendors and I’m on my way to CCIE. A long [...]

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RIPv2 MD5 authentication – routing trick

By On September 30, 2011 · 5 Comments

I must admit that the following example is more a CCIE exam topic and not a solution that you would add in real network environments.

Let’s assume that we have the following topology:

The Loopback interfaces are there to have some networks which we will advertise into RIPv2. The [...]

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InterVLAN routing using Private VLANs

By On September 23, 2011 · 3 Comments

Private VLANs  is one possible solutions for service providers to offer secure connections to their customers and avoid inter-vlan communication in the same switched environment.

I’m sure that you heard (and most probably practice already) InterVLAN routing. When it comes to Private VLANs the routing part may be a bit tricky. Keep in mind that [...]

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Draw network diagrams online (with Cisco stencils)

By On September 17, 2011 · 1 Comment

I’m a Mac and Linux user and if you are like me, then you have the same problems drawing network diagrams. Microsoft Visio does not have a version for this platforms. I’m not saying that there are no alternatives to Visio on Mac or Linux platform, but most of them are either limited in features, [...]

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Cisco Easy VPN Router-to-Router

By On September 16, 2011 · 2 Comments

Cisco Easy VPN is not a new technology. Actually it is pretty old, but still used by many companies or people to connect remote site / remote workers to headquarter.

A few days ago I was looking to connect a remote site in a simple way but still secure and a colleagues suggested me to [...]

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Would you do such things to an ISR 819?

By On September 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Lucky there is a big disclaimer at the beginning of this video. Otherwise I would be tempted to test such things and then plug it in to see if it still start (at least) and run.

It’s a nice commercial from Cisco, but to be honest I feel bad for this poor device:

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Interface software loop

By On August 30, 2011 · 2 Comments

If you ever worked in an environment where you have to deal with leased / dedicated lines provider by your SP (service provider) then you know that whenever it’s a problem on the line they request, if possible, to put a loop on the line from one end toward the other end, so they can [...]

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