Defending Your Console

Here is a blog post I wrote for Cisco.

http://blogs.cisco.com/perspectives/defending-your-console

The CCIE R&S is transitioning to V5.0 June 4th

Here is a link to the new blueprint for the written.

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/exams/list/ccieRS.html#~Topics

Pay special attention to a cool/useful new feature, click on the "exam topics" tab, and you will find the percentages for each topic. This should help to decide how much effort you should put into each topic.

10%     1.0   Network Principles
15%     2.0   Layer 2 Technologies
40%     3.0   Layer 3 Technologies
15%     4.0   VPN Technologies
5%      5.0   Infrastructure Security 
15%     6.0   Infrastructure Services


Within each of the subsections you can drill deeper for more details. This feature seems to have added to most if not all of the certification exams

Annual Cisco Live Twitter Picture

 

Wendell Odom explains how to use the old CCNA books for the new tests.

Operation Network Raider

The US government is having some success in convicting network gear counterfeiters.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/08/1454206/Crackdown-On-Counterfeit-Networking-Gear?from=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

A Case Study on Root Port Selection

This is a quick case study to determine if the switchport cost and priority settings should be set locally or on the upstream switch.

http://bosononline.com/Blog/tabid/55/EntryId/7/A-Case-Study-on-Root-Port-Selection.aspx

Comcast to begin IPv6 Trials

http://blog.comcast.com/2010/01/preparing-for-the-ipv6-transition.html