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It's December and the Christmas season is upon us yet again. This year it seems the amount of marketing and sales messages hitting my Inbox is at an all time high. I love NewEgg just as mush as the next techie but we're going a little over the top … [Continue reading]
I've never been a big fan of technical certifications. The primary reason being that I've met far to many certified people that clearly didn't understand the material they were supposedly certified in. I once met a Certified Novell Engineer that was … [Continue reading]
I just recently learned that the BGP Soft Reset feature in Cisco IOS is automatically implemented in software release 12.0(2)S and later. Earlier software releases required the neighbor soft-reconfiguration in the BGP configuration to dynamically … [Continue reading]
While we're at it let's add two Cisco Catalyst 2950 switches to our topology and detail how to configure those additional switches. This has already been documented hundreds of times across the Internet so I'm doing this more for myself than for … [Continue reading]
Let's keep going... let's bring a Cisco 3750E into the topology and let's talk about utilizing Spanning Tree. Let's get this out the way, Avaya does NOT recommend that you disable Spanning Tree. Avaya's Split MultiLink Trunking (SMLT) is not … [Continue reading]