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RTA Update 1/12/13

The new year has started off on an interesting note. I must say the first 2 weeks of this year have been hectic to say the least. I hit a deer on the way home from work on New Years Eve. Thank goodness the car was not damaged. My uncle was rushed to the hospital on New Years day. I started a new work scheduled. I now work Sunday – Thursday 8:00 AM to 5:00 pm. Although, I am now working the new hours I still need to get used to them. Its different than nights and it feels better...

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Switchmap « packetroute

I came across this blog  entry on Packetroutes Blog. Its of a tool called Switchmap. It seems to be very useful seeing what kind of devices are connected to your switch. Hope you enjoy it.   RTA Switchmap « packetroute.   I was introduced to this amazing tool by Siemsen named Switchmap.  It uses snmp, cdp and some wonderful magic to populate a SEARCHABLE index of all of your switches interfaces.  It is any easy way to see what is attached to what interface and best of all yes I need to say it again it is searchable.  For instance...

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My CCNP Certification Progress

CCNP Route Part 2   It has been a couple of days since I started my CCNP Route studying and I have hit my first stumbling point.  It wasn’t the configuration of  EIGRP as a whole. I was able to remember and grasp the concepts of Passive Interfaces, Network Commands, Un-Equal Cost Load Balancing as well as authentication and utilizing the bandwidth percent command. The problem that I was having was the configuration of frame relay. The frame relay lab topology I was working with has 3 routers in a hub and spoke topology. The simulated wan backbone was a...