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EIGRP… The Basics

Feb 29, 2012 · 3 min read · CCNA Cisco Distance-vector routing protocol Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol General hybrid routing protocol ICND2 IP address networking Open Shortest Path First Routing protocol technology ·

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Routing_Updates Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is an impressive set of features for IP Routing, which converges quickly and is on par and sometimes faster than OSPF. This routing protocol requires less processing time, less memory, and less network design than compared to OSPF. What's the catch? …

The Three Tiers

Jan 21, 2012 · 3 min read · CCENT CCNA Cisco cisco Cisco Systems collapsed core Data Communications distribution layer General hierarchical network ICND1 ICND2 Network Network Layer networking Security security technology Virtual LAN ·

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network_switch Working towards the CCNA Cisco talks about a hierarchical network there are three layers to this design. Access Layer, distribution layer and the core layer. Each of them have their own set of functions and is also considered to be a best practice when the network continues to grow and for redundancy …

Basic Understanding of EtherChannel

Jan 4, 2012 · 3 min read · CCNA Cisco cisco EtherChannel General IP address Link aggregation MAC address networking Source port technology tutorial ·

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network cables Let's start the New Year with understanding EtherChannel which is having more than one link connected to a server, switch, or router and treating it like one logical link. This is a fault-tolerant technique that is becoming a common setup in highly available, core devices. Cisco has come up with their …

Color Code Your Routers

Nov 30, 2011 · 3 min read · Catalyst switch Cisco cisco Cisco IOS Command-line interface Configure script General networking router software technology tutorial Tutorials ·

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I came across an interesting idea, what if you could color code your devices in command line? So such as if you were operating routers at a core level you could color code the CLI to the color red, and the branch routers green and etc. I wasn't sure if this would possible but doing some searching through the internet I …

How to Configure SSH on Dell Power-Connect

Oct 26, 2011 · 4 min read · Command-line interface Data Link Layer Dell General IP address networking Powerconnect Secure Shell Security Software SSH technology tutorial Tutorials ·

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keys Although not dealing with Cisco directly Dell switches are around in network closets and with my limited experience with them I thought this would be a perfect blog post to show the differences between Dell and Cisco. I like to think of Dell CLI like a dumb downed version of the Cisco CLI so I had some time to …