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 CCNA Exam Tutorial: Split Horizon And Hub-And-Spoke Networks

Saturday, June 7th, 2008

For CCNA exam success, you had better know what split horizon is, how to turn it off, and when to turn it off. Knowing when to turn split horizon off is also important in production networks, because it can cause a hub-and-spoke network to have incomplete routing tables on the spokes.
Split horizon exists for [...]

Cisco Certification: The “Secret” Key To Getting Your CCNA And CCNP

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Whether you’re working on your CCNA or CCNP, Cisco certification exams are the most demanding computer certification exams in the IT field. Cisco exams are not a test of memorization, they’re a test of your analytical skills. You’ll need to look at configurations and console output and analyze them to identify problems and [...]

Cisco CCNA / CCNP Certification Exam Lab: Frame Relay Subinterfaces And Split Horizon

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Earning your Cisco CCNA and CCNP is a tough proposition, and part of that is the fact that you quickly learn that there’s usually more than one way to do things with Cisco routers &ndash and while that’s generally a good thing, you better know the ins and outs of all options when it comes [...]

Cisco Routing For The CCNA And CCNP: Administrative Distance

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

The textbook definition of “administrative distance” is simple enough: “the measurement of a protocol’s believability”. It’s not enough to know the definition, however you’ve got to know when AD comes into the picture and when it does not.
When a packet needs to be routed, the router looks in its routing table for the next-hop IP [...]

Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Route Summarization

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

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