Monthly Archive: December 2014
Implementing and Troubleshooting Switch Administration and Layer 2 Protocols

We’ve made up a new word here at Hack and Tinker! That’s right, not only do you get to learn about exciting networking technologies here, you actually get to witness the birth of language. Could it possibly get more exciting…
Read more
IOS Troubleshooting Tools

What’s more nerve-wrecking: Having your company CEO breathing down your neck asking why the network is down, or your exam proctor telling you that you only have 30 minutes left on your CCIE Lab Exam? I somehow suspect that the…
Read more
UDP Operations

Welcome back to another Hack And Tinker CCIE exam topic post. Today’s topic: UDP. In honor of the fact that UDP is smaller and simpler than TCP, this post is going to be significantly shorter than it’s TCP cousin….
Read more
TCP Operations

It’s time to talk about good ole’ TCP. Assuming that you’ve already read the above joke about TCP, it’s a good time to start into a disclaimer: Other than this little joke, I won’t be going into how the 3-way…
Read more