CCNP Recertification

Posted on Wednesday, 25th July 2007 by sean

A month or so ago I was sent a package from Train Signal containing their video training for the CCNA, BCMSN, and BSCI exams.
I had the chance to go through several of the BSCI videos and have to say I was really impressed. The videos are done by Chris Bryant who writes [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 17th July 2007 by sean

Cisco announced that Vue is the exclusive test vendor, meaning you can’t use Prometric anymore. Last day to schedule a Prometric exam is July 31st.

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Posted on Tuesday, 26th June 2007 by sean

It was a year or two ago that Cisco split up the CCNA into two exams. (ICND and INTRO). Yesterday it was announced that things were changing again into ICND1 and ICND2 exams along with creating another certification. Passing just the first ICND makes you a Cisco Certified Entry Network Technician, then passing [...]

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Posted on Thursday, 21st June 2007 by sean

Earlier I looked at stub areas. One problem we found was that you can’t have an ASBR in a stub area — no “redistribute static” on any external links. What a pity!
Not so stubby areas get around this by allowing the ASBR to exist and propagate LSAs. The problem is that stub [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 19th June 2007 by sean

I was excited to receive Practical Packet Analysis in the mail. A book on the topic of packet analysis is one of those “gee, I wish I had thought of that!” type of things.
PPA is all about using Ethereal/Wireshark to solve network problems. While not explicitly written as such, the book is done [...]

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Posted on Sunday, 17th June 2007 by sean

I’ve got a bunch of books on my shelf I’ve been meaning to review, but I really wanted to mention the CCNP BSCI Portable Command Guide. It was sent to me a few weeks ago and I’ve recently had the chance to go through it.
It’s a lot like O’Reilly’s cookbook series, but more concise. [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 13th June 2007 by sean

Earlier I gave a description of OSPF special areas (stubby, not so stubby, totally stubby). Here’s some examples to back it up.
I use dynagen to simulate my environment, it’s so good I ended up selling my routers! Here’s the config:

autostart = false

[localhost]

[[7200]]
image = ..\images\c7200-jk9s-mz.122-40.bin
[...]

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Posted on Saturday, 19th May 2007 by sean

Every so often I get a comment or email from someone working on their CCNP which is great. I thought I’d post an update on where I am.
My CCNP expired a couple of years ago. I started this website so that I could post my study notes for the recert exam and hopefully [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 19th May 2007 by sean

I’ve been doing some prep for BSCI lately and am back into OSPF. One thing I ran into was keeping the various types of areas straight, and remembering all the restrictions that come with them. It wasn’t helped by an unclear description I read in the book, which caused me to really get [...]

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Posted on Monday, 11th September 2006 by sean

I got a chance to look at the new CCNA Video Mentor (CVM) by Wendell Odom. It’s a 2 hour Video on CD (all Flash videos) on a variety of topics that’s meant to go alongside the
CCNA Official Exam Certification Library (Exam #640-801), 2nd Edition. The videos are really worked through labs to [...]

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