Category Archives: CCNP Switch

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Switch Vs Route

Posted on February 13, 2012 by DevilWAH

I see a lot of people as Questions such as what is harder the Switch or the Route exam, Or Why is the Route coarse materials so much larger than the Switch, does this mean there is less to it? 642-902 ROUTE  642-813 SWITCH … Continue reading →

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Using Syslog while Studying in GNS3 (or indeed and cisco Lab)

Posted on January 27, 2012 by DevilWAH

I have been getting back in to my studying a lot lately and one thing I have found is the need to use a lot of debug commands so I can watch what is happening during things like routing updates and neighbour formation. One thing I … Continue reading →

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Spanning Tree enhancements (Backbone Fast)

Posted on December 7, 2010 by DevilWAH

Last time I look at the spanning tree enhancment I covered uplink fast, this is for detecting when a directly connected root port fails and switching over to a back up in the shortest time possible. But what happens if … Continue reading →

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Simulating PC’s in GNS3

Posted on November 4, 2010 by DevilWAH

One of my main issues with GNS3 for studying that there are no end devices (PC’s) by default. Ok you can set up loopback interfaces, or add in an extra router and just configure one interface with an IP to … Continue reading →

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Spanning Tree enhancements (Uplink fast)

Posted on November 2, 2010 by DevilWAH

In my last job, I jumped straight in to configuring Rapid spanning Tree, I mean what is the point of running Standard STP with its 50second fail over times, when you can enable Rapid-STP and gain sub second fail over?? … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Redundant Supervisors on 6500′s

Posted on October 31, 2010 by DevilWAH

I need to know how to upgrade the IOS on CISCO 6500′s, So here is the outline along with a download of the official PDF from CISCO. First confirm what IOS image is running, which supervisor is running as active and the redundancy mode … Continue reading →

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Spanning Tree

Posted on October 28, 2010 by DevilWAH

Here is a nice Flash animation explaing the basic operation of Spanning tree spanning_tree1 DevilWAH Download article as PDF

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CCNP SWITCH (retake)

Posted on October 18, 2010 by DevilWAH

Well one more update. I have just checked my email and it seems that CISCO have responded to my comments about the SWITCH exam, and provided me with a re-sit voucher! I think this says something about the quality of this exam as this is the … Continue reading →

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CCNP SWITCH update

Posted on September 16, 2010 by DevilWAH

Well no luck I’m afraid I agree with many of the other complaints about this exam, there seems to be a large number of questions that are not covered in the course material. I say that having read the foundation … Continue reading →

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Time up!

Posted on September 16, 2010 by DevilWAH

Well a night of study and now its to bed for some sleep before my CCNP SWITCH exam. Hopefully by the time of my next post I will be one third of the way towards achieving my CCNP. If I’m … Continue reading →

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