Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Introduction To Policy Routing

Sunday, June 1st, 2008

Policy routing is a major topic on your BSCI exam, and you’ll find quite a bit of policy routing going on in today’s production networks. But what exactly is policy routing?
Policy-based routing, generally referred to as “policy routing”, is the use of route maps to determine the path a packet will take to get [...]

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Thursday, May 1st, 2008

The Computer is a very complicated device we use for our every day comfort and the importance of some of its numerical aspects is sometimes neglected. For example: a different number is given to each computer when its user goes online or when it is part of a network. This number is the IP address [...]

Cisco CCNP Certification / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Floating Static Routes

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

Passing the BSCI exam and earning your CCNP certification demands that you add greatly to the networking skills foundation you created when you studied for your CCNA certification. You learned quite a bit about static routing and default static routing when you passed the CCNA test, and it does seem like that should be [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Ten IP Routing Details You Must Know!

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

To pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP, you’ve got to keep a lot of details in mind. It’s easy to overlook the “simpler” protocols and services such as static routing and distance vector protocols. With this in mind, here’s a quick review of some details you should know for success in the exam [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Leading Zero Compression

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The BSCI exam and CCNP certification requires that you be well versed in the basics of IP Version 6, or IPv6. If you’re new to IPv6, you’ll quickly learn that it’s not exactly just two more octets slapped onto an IPv4 address! IPv6 addresses are quite long, but there are two ways to [...]

Cisco CCNA Certification: Static Routing Tutorial

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

In studying for your CCNA exam and preparing to earn this valuable certification, you may be tempted to spend little time studying static routing and head right for the more exciting dynamic routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF. This is an understandable mistake, but still a mistake. Static routing is not complicated, [...]

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 CCNA Exam Tutorial: Mapping The OSI Model To The TCPIP Model

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

The OSI model is the model that most networking personnel are familiar with, but to earn your CCNA, you need to know the OSI model, the TCP/IP model, and how the two map to each other.
The four layers of the TCP/IP architecture can be compared to certain levels of the OSI model. It’s important [...]

TCP/IP architecture model

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

1. Network interface(Data link) layer
2. Network layer
3. Transport layer
4. Application layer
Network interface layer
The lowest layer of the TCP/IP model. Its task is to provide access to the transmission physical medium and it differs according to the implementation of the medium.
Network layer
The network layer provides network addressing, routing and datagram transmission. Used protocols that will be of interest further [...]

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 [...]