CCNP exam success, particularly on the BSCI exam, demands you understand the details of route summarization. This skill not only requires that you have a comfort level with binary conversions, but you have to know how and where to apply route summarization with each individual protocol.
You also have to know the “side effects” of [...]
If there’s one CCNP / BSCI topic that looks so easy but can lead to a real headache, it’s route redistribution. I’m not even talking about the routing loops and suboptimal routing that can result when route redistribution is done without proper planning - I’m talking about the basic commands themselves. Leaving [...]
Preparing for your BSCI exam on your way to the Cisco CCNP certification, you can quickly get overwhelmed by the details! Here are five commonly overlooked points you should keep in mind when it comes to your OSPF studies.
The virtual link command includes the area number of the transit area, and if authentication is [...]
Once you earn your CCNA certification, you’ve got quite a few exciting choices ahead of you! The majority of CCNAs go on to pursue another Cisco certification, and this is a wise decision. The more you know, the more valuable you are in today’s IT market.
A question I’m often asked by new CCNAs [...]
In the first part of this free CCNP / BSCI tutorial, we looked at how leaving one simple word out of our route redistribution configuration - “subnets” - resulted in an incomplete routing table when redistributing routes from RIP to OSPF. (If you missed that part of the tutorial, visit my website’s “Free Tutorials” [...]
To be successful on the BSCI exam and in earning your CCNP, you’ve got to master route redistribution. This isn’t as easy as it sounds, because configuring route redistribution is only half the battle. Whether it’s on an exam or in a real-world production network, you’ve got to identify possible points of trouble before you [...]
When you’re preparing to pass the BSCI exam on the way to the coveted Cisco CCNP certification, you can be quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of BGP and OSPF knowledge you must demonstrate a mastery of. One set of details that some BSCI and CCNP candidates underestimate are the differences between the [...]
OSPF route redistribution is an important topic on the BSCI exam, and it’s a topic full of details and defaults that you need to know for the exam room and the job. To help you pass the BSCI exam, here’s a quick review of some of the OSPF route redistribution basics.
To see if a router [...]
