Cisco CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: The HSRP MAC Address

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

To pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP, you’ve got to know HSRP inside and out! Part of that is knowing how the MAC address of the virtual router is derived, and another part is knowing how to change this address. We’ll look at both features in this tutorial.
We’ve got two routers [...]

Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Dynamic VLANs and VMPS

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Knowledge of Dynamic VLANs and VMPS is important in your efforts to pass the BCMSN exam and earn your CCNP, and it’s also a great skill to have for your networking career.
As a CCNA and CCNP candidate, you know how and why to configure static VLANs. Static VLANs can be a powerful tool for reducing [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: A Guide To Ipv6 Addressing

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and it’s going to help in your real-world networking career as well. IPv6 can be confusing at first, but it’s like anything else in Cisco or networking as a whole - learn one part at [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using OSPF’s “Summary-Address” Command

Friday, July 4th, 2008

BSCI exam success, not to mention earning your CCNP, can come down to your OSPF route summarization skills. There are a few different commands and situations you need to be ready for, and one of these situations is the proper use of the “summary-address” command.
The summary-address command should be used on an ASBR in order [...]

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Review: Protocol Basics

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

To earn your Cisco CCNA certification and pass the BSCI CCNP exam, you have to know your protocol basics like the back of your hand! To help you review these important concepts, here’s a quick look at the basics of RIPv1, RIPv2, IGRP, and EIGRP.
RIPv1: Broadcasts updates every 30 seconds to the address [...]

Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Preparing to pass the CCNA exam and earn this important Cisco certification? Route summarization is just one of the many skills you’ll have to master in order to earn your CCNA. Whether it’s RIP version 2, OSPF, or EIGRP, the CCNA exam will demand that you can flawlessly configure route summarization.
Route summarization isn’t [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: IP Version 6 Zero Compression

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

BSCI exam success is all part of becoming a CCNP, and part of that success is now learning the basics of IP Version 6, or IPv6. One of the most difficult parts of learning IPv6 concepts is the radically different addressing scheme that IPv6 uses as compared to IPv4. Just look at these sample [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Route Summarization

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Summarizing routes is a vital skill to learn to pass the BSCI exam and get one step closer to earning your CCNP. The actual binary conversions are only part of the test, though! You’ve got to know how to correctly apply the summary routes, and that differs from one protocol to the next. [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Using The OSPF Command

Wednesday, January 9th, 2008

Your BSCI and CCNP exam success depends on knowing the details, and one such detail is knowing the proper way to summarize routes in OSPF. Route summarization is not just a test of your binary conversion abilities, but knowing where and when to summarize routes. It will not surprise any CCNA or [...]

Cisco CCNP / BCSI Exam Tutorial: Broadcasts And The IP Helper-Address Command

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

While routers accept and generate broadcasts, they do not forward them. This can be quite a problem when a broadcast needs to get to a device such as a DHCP or TFTP server that’s on one side of a router with other subnets on the other side.
If a PC attempts to locate a DNS [...]