Monthly Archive: November 2014
IP Operations

One of my sole regrets as a father is that I didn’t see that onesie until my daughter was just a little too old to wear them anymore. If “Baby…
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CCIE Studies Update

My head is spinning. Sometimes it seems like I’m just cramming new stuff into my head at the expense of the stuff that I learned a month ago. I’m learning more and more that one of the big reasons this…
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Using Plink to log commands from your SSH/telnet devices

When it comes to monitoring a network, there are dozens of tools out there that an administrator can use to log information. However no amount of syslog or SNMP data can beat the detail of the commands you have at…
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A Simple Fix for a Duplicate Remote Static IP

Have you ever had two devices on a remote network that have the same static IP address? Let’s be honest, the answer is yes, of course it is, it happens, no biggie, no one is judging you for how it…
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General Network Challenges

My wife is sitting next to me at the moment, and after seeing the title of this thread, she told me “That’s a boring title…” She’s right. And it’s hard to come up with a creative theme to liven it…
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The Need for CEF(peed) – Part 2

Today, we’ll wrap up the CEF discussion with the last two exam objectives regarding CEF: 1.1.b (ii) Load balancing Hash 1.1.b (iii) Polarization concept and avoidance CEF Load Balancing By now, you’re probably familiar with the concept of how IOS…
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