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How to configure a password such as  (below) on the Cisco device ?

"mon?password"

Yes it is possible …

Ok. If you have read my last post, you could say : “Ok, but when do you begin for real ?!”

I have beginning by working on a study plan. When the ennemy is hard as can be CCIE, you must have a plan to beat it. This is what I have now. I think I will update it during the journey toward my objective, but I think it is a right roadmap. For me, it is a TODO List and something which remind/force me to go on…

After a long period withouy working on my CCIE study, I will now plan and work hard toward this objective. I will try to explain, write about my journey toward CCIE Routing and Switching written exam.

Be prepared to read new content about Cisco, CCIE and telco here.

Best regards, Christophe

Week-end equals some fun. First of all, I think I can give you some fun for around 30mn.

For my side, it was this. It will be cool to tshoot this little MPLS topology :

Thanks to Daniel for this MPLS troubleshoot session :)

During this tech fun session, I invit you to listen to : http://youtu.be/3f-JhB9ZfZQ

Here it is a little challenge. You will find two CPE connected to two different PE. The two CPE are used in “fail-over” model by using HSRP. The two CPE dial on PE. CPEprimaire dials through a Bridge, CPESecondaire dials directly.

CPEPrimaire :
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on LAN fastethernet:
standby 5 ip 10.0.0.1
standby 5 preempt
standby 5 track Dialer 1
standby 5 priority 105

CPESecondaire :
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on LAN fastethernet :
standby 5 ip 10.0.0.1
standby 5 preempt

 

Just to give you a new challenge. It is supplied by IPexpert.

The URL is :  http://blog.ipexpert.com/2012/01/04/ospf-and-bgp-puzzle/

Have fun with this new challenge. For real, it is not really hard ;)

In reading Cisco France blog, I have discovered this platform : ASR903.

Thank you for the blog post from Jerome Durand (Cisco) about IOS-XE (v3.5) which will be running on ASR903. This piece of hardware is not already sold by anyone, even Cisco. This router seems really powerful in a compact place in your rack. Read it :

• MPLS-TE
• MPLS-TP
• MPLS-OAM
• Hierarchical VPLS (HVPLS), Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS), EoMPLS
• OTV
• in addition to basical functionality.

	I have received at work this Cisco Small Business units to test it b efore we can sell it to customers. It seems really well. It is well designed (some linux distro is behind), and customized. I love all these features and smart/quickly applied and in action. UC320W is a good prodoct for Small business office.

I don’t if you know this game. It is a little game, ‘Cisco Computer/network’ game. It find it really fun. You can see an enclosed view of the game :

It is not really easy to explain BGP/ASN concepts to a non-friendly-IT friend. I am really interested in how you explain this. Just to know. I am really curious. Do you use an analogy ? Which ? Do you go directly in technical stuff ? To begin : for my part I use an analogy around city/country. I explain that city/country announce to others her streets or better a set of streets. and so on … It could be cool to know your stories about this…