I noticed that not everybody knows how to download Cisco certs PDF files or order additional printed copies. Just open this link, login with your Cisco credentials and enter the menu "Certification Fulfillment". An additional CCIE plaque costs 150USD, paper certs cost 15USD. HTH

I've passed the CCIE RS lab exam yesterday in Brussels, results arrived this morning:

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Cisco stopped to publish CCIE statistics some time ago but in Cisco Live presentations we can find some slides like this: A couple of days ago on twitter Bob McCouch who passed his lab on February 21st posted this: I know 14 days are not enough to make statistics, but let's play with the numbers since they're very …

NTP client / server with authentication SERVER CONFIG ntp authentication-key 1 md5 0802657D2A36 7 ntp master 5 CLIENT CONFIG ntp authentication-key 1 md5 1531223F2705 7 ntp authenticate ntp trusted-key 1 ntp server 10.0.12.1 key 1 Notes: the client authenticates the time source, server must have the key.

Cisco Live! Europe: I'm in! First time here, the impression is like being in the Willy Wonka chocolate factory with the big difference you can touch everything without disappear. As my job is not focused on a single technology I'm registered to many different sessions, from WiFi to Security, from FCoE to …

The dscp mutation map is a per-port configuration that permits to modify the dscp field of a packet. The mutation map works for EGRESS traffic only We trust the documentation but it's event better to verify it. The topology si simple: PC1 11.0.0.1 --> G1/0/1 C3750-24 G1/0/24 --> G1/0/24 C3750-48 G1/0/1 --> PC2 11.0.0.2 …

Private VLAN configuration: vlan 300 private-vlan primary private-vlan association 301-302 ! vlan 301 private-vlan isolated ! vlan 302 private-vlan community Port configuration: interface GigabitEthernet1/0/1 switchport private-vlan host-association 300 301 switchport mode private-vlan host What about the SVI? …

Netflow quick notes for basic config. NETFLOW EXPORT Send NetFlow data to a collector: From? (source) Where? (destination, port) How? (udp, sctp, backup) Version? (1,5,9) SAMPLING / FILTERING Not all traffic is evaluated to generate NetFlow statistics. Sampling (one packet each N) of filtering (sampling only on a class …

Your Route to Cisco Career Success by Kevin Wallace A free ebook from Amazon/Kindle about the strategy to prepare for a brilliant career in networking. UPDATE: the book was free just for a limited amount of time (I got the link from Twitter).

After one week of training in Milan and passing the exam I've added an Alcatel-Lucent certification to my c.v.: "Alcatel-Lucent Certified Field Expert - ACFE - OmniSwitch R6/R6" OmniSwitch have some proprietary features, like mobile vlans, that may be very useful in some deployments. The new 10K platform with MC-LAG …

This week I'm attending an HP training in Milan. The course topics aren't as challenging as I've expected but I had the opportunity to test focus on some interoperability problems that may occur in mixed environments, especially with Cisco and non-Cisco devices, like PVST. For this post we use 2 switches, a Cisco and a …

A great blog and Youtube channel with a lot of resources for Cisco Wireless:

When a router config is saved with copy run start IOS asks for a destination filename: RTR#copy running-config startup-config Destination filename [startup-config]? Building configuration... [OK] To bypass the request and use the default name startup-config do this: RTR(config)#file prompt quiet And then again copy run …