Category Archives: CCNP Switch

This Page contains all posts related to my CCNP SWITCH studies

CCNP SWITCH update

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!

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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Trouble shooting with ACL’s

We all know of ACL’s for use in restricting traffic when applied to an interface, and also for classing traffic such as when used in NAT to chose the ranges to apply NATing to. But they can also be very useful in … Continue reading

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QoS and leaky Buckets

Just been going through QoS in the foundation guide, it has a small bit on the Leaky bucket algorithm, but I think the wikipedia article explains in much clearer. I had always though of it as the packets where the … Continue reading

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Flash card update

Well added a few more cards to the pack. ANKI I think I am about ready for this exam now so hopefully a week more and it will be behind me. Bring on ROUTE!! Download article as PDF

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Setting up HSRP (or how not to..)

OK need time out from reading about wireless networks, its all a bit of a repeat to be honest and I’m getting brain ache. I have update my ANKI flashcard pack though with some of it. But I thought a few … Continue reading

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Tree’s that Span the network

Lets start with a few links. Cisco’s introduction to STP. Cisco’s configuration guide Before I learnt about sub-netting, trunk links, access ports, or vlan’s, I started looking in to STP. In fact my introduction to networking went along the lines … Continue reading

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CCNP SWITCH CERT Updates

Those of you doing you switch exam my be interested to read these. Some updates to the CCNP SWITCH cert guide have been released. It looks like they cover some the the Planning topics, and also in there is some SVI stuff. There … Continue reading

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Filtering the VLAN Traffic

So it ended up I decided to do a recap on VLAN access control lists (ACL’s) before I got back into Spanning Tree. I also covered Private VLAN’s tonight but will come back to them some other time for the blog. Over … Continue reading

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DHCP snooping and Option 82

OK time to get on with it. And seeing as I have just been brushing up on switch security what better place to start. Not going to tell you how to configure DHCP snooping or show you my lab set … Continue reading

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