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Multicast Distribution Tree (MDT)

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L3VPN Loop Prevention Featurees

Protocol Priorities Generally, but not always: – Layer 2 -> Lower is better -> PAgP port priority, higher is better – IGPs and layer 3 -> Higher is better -> OSPF has an exception – BGP -> There is a high / low cutoff – Multicast -> If the protocol has “Router” in the name, […]

I created a progress tracker for the Cisco Wireless certifications. My current goal is to get the CCNA Wireless and the CCNP Wireless certifications. I don’t have any plans to pursue the CCIE Wireless. I added the exams topics for all three levels. With the CCNP Wireless, there are no books that are currently available […]

Here is the updated progress tracker for the CCIE Route Switch v5.1 written topics.  A sheet for the INE Advanced Technology labs is also included. This progress tracker has already shared with the Routergods Cisco users group. http://download.feralpacket.org/CCCIE_RS_Progress_Tracker_v5.1_-_8_Aug_2016.xlsx  

Note: There is an updated post here. https://feralpacket.org/?p=817 During my CCIE studies, I created a bunch of regular expressions to highlight the output of show commands. These will work with the show commands on IOS and IOS-XE images. The regular expressions are based on syntax used with Python. https://docs.python.org/2/library/re.html SecureCRT does not support using spaces […]

I created a mind map to tie the CCIE R&S v5 lab exam topics to DOC-CD locations.  This was harder and took more time then I originally thought it would.  I tried to avoid using older 12.2 or 12.4 documentation, even if some of the older stuff explains topics better or groups information together better. […]

Here is a progress tracker for the CCIE Route Switch v5.  It includes sheets for both volumes of the latest CCIE Official Certification Guide and TCP / IP Volume I and II.  It also includes sheets for Micronics’ (Narkbik’s) lab workbooks.  I’ve created various study plans over the years, but have a problem actually following […]

RIPv2 – UDP port 520 – Multicast IP 224.0.0.9 – Classless (not by default) -> Cannot have discontiguous networks – Metric is hop count – Metric 16 is  infinite  metric – Timers -> Update timer:   30 seconds -> Invalid timer:   180 seconds -> Holddown timer:   180 seconds -> Flush timer:   240 seconds – Supports authentication -> Plain […]