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Converting Hexadecimal to Decimal and Binary

Apr 22, 2015 · 3 min read · 640-911 CCNA Data Center Cisco Cisco Career Certifications ipv6 Network networking technology tutorial ·

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The purpose of this post is to reference the CCNA Data Center (640-911) exam. This exam starts the conversation of IPv6 and since IPv6 is hexadecimal this post starts the talk about how we look at a hexadecimal values and learn how to convert them to binary and decimal. If you know subnetting skills then this won’t be …

Configuring Rancid

Feb 27, 2015 · 12 min read · CentOS Cisco Network networking Rancid router Software software technology tutorial ·

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In my last post I talked about Installing Rancid on Centos 7 so be sure to check that out. In this post we now want to actually use Rancid so I’ll walk through on how to setup Rancid to login into network equipment and get configurations. To recap: Rancid is a great tool to help monitor a device configuration for any …

Install Rancid and ViewVC on Centos 7

Jan 3, 2015 · 64 min read · CCNA CentOS cisco Configuration Backup Network Rancid Routers Tutorials ViewVC ·

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In this post I want to walk though the steps to install Rancid on CentOS 7 minimal. Rancid is a great tool to help monitor a device configuration for any changes. It also keeps track of them by using CVS (Concurrent Version System) for backups, so you can go back and compare versions or revert to a previous …

Cisco VIRL is out ... for a price

Dec 5, 2014 · 2 min read · CCNP Certification Cisco Cisco Career Certifications Cisco Modeling Labs Network networking technology VIRL ·

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Just wanted to put this up has Cisco has recently released VIRL. This is a network simulation platform that you can run Cisco operating systems on which are the same operating systems that run on Cisco hardware so anything you do in this simulation environment would be realistic if it was running on dedicated hardware. …

Setting up Enhanced vPC on Nexus 5600

Sep 10, 2014 · 9 min read · Cisco Cisco Career Certifications Data center Network networking Nexus NX-OS tutorial vPC ·

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So I've played around with two Cisco Nexus 5672UP switches which will be in production soon but before that I wanted to see what it took to get enhanced vPC online. Along the way I was into some new territory as I never stood up vPC before, so in this post I have posted some things to keep in mind and running-config …