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 on a segment running HSRP, so…
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Cisco Ccna Ccnp Certification Exam Caller Id Screening And Callback
As a CCNA and/or CCNP candidate, you’ve got to be able to spot situations where Cisco router features can save your client money and time. For example, if a spoke router is calling a hub router and the toll charges at the spoke site are higher than that of the hub router, having the hub router hang up initially and…
Cisco Ccnp Certification Using The Bgp Command Update Source
When you start preparing for your CCNP exam, particularly the BSCI exam, you’re introduced to Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) configurations. BGP is unlike any protocol you learned during your CCNA studies, and even the similarities are a little bit different! BGP forms neighbor relationships, much like EIGRP and OSPF do. The interesting thing with BGP is that potential neighbors, or…
Sharpening Router Bits
All the time you see different products that come out to help the woodworker sharpen his or her tools in the shop. There is just about every contraption out there with a variety of prices and features. The one thing you never see is a good system for sharpening router bits. I am all for having super sharp chisels in…
Cisco Ccna Certification Exam Tutorial Frame Relay Dlcis And Mappings
Passing the CCNA is tough, and one of the toughest parts is keeping all the acronyms straight! Frame Relay has plenty of those, and today we’re going to examine what DLCIs do and how they’re mapped on a Cisco router. Frame Relay VCs use Data-Link Connection Identifiers (DLCI – pronounced “del-see”) as their addresses. Unlike other Cisco technologies, VCs have…
Ccnp Certification Bcmsn Exam Tutorial Hsrp Mac Addresses And Timers
To earn your CCNP certification and pass the BCMSN exam, you’ve got to know what HSRP does and the many configurable options. While the operation of HSRP is quite simple (and covered in a previous tutorial), you also need to know how HSRP arrives at the MAC address for the virtual router – as well as how to configure a…
Cisco Ccna Exam Tutorial Password Recovery Procedures
It might happen on your CCNA exam, it might happen on your production network – but sooner or later, you’re going to have to perform password recovery on a Cisco router or switch. This involves manipulating the router’s configuration register, and that is enough to make some CCNA candidates and network administrators really nervous! It’s true that setting the configuration…
Go Wireless For Always On Network Connections
If you hate having to turn on a modem every time you use another computer on your wireless network, get ready to be happy. There is a way to resolve this problem, and it’s called a wireless router. A wireless router is a small, low-power computer that does nothing but provide Internet access to your wireless network. When you use…
How To Set Up A Network In Your Home
Most modern homes have any number of computers, printers, faxes, music systems and devices. These are increasingly being integrated so that each device can ‘talk’ to all the others and interact with them. While many of the possibilities are still being explored, the best place to start for the average person is with a home computer network. Basically, if you…
Festool Routers
FESTOOL is a company based in Germany that produces power tools for, among others, woodworking. In existence for the past 80 years, FESTOOL has developed and manufactured some of the finest power tools available today based on the reviews made by various woodworking aficionados. Among the power tools that have been manufactured by FESTOOL is the FESTOOL Router series, touted…