IPv4 & IPv6 Addressing and Routing Foundation IPv4 Addressing IPv4 addresses are 32 bits and presented in 4 octets separated by a dot. Addresses must be unique, else traffic destined to one host address could end up [...]
You have to be realistic, this is not going to be easy and will require a lot of planning and research, hard work and a sprinkle of good luck. In this post, I will share with my recommended plan [...]
When you have just started or about to start a new job in networking or tech in general, you have a very small windows during which you are hopefully not already overloaded with tasks and activities. During this honeymoon [...]
Cisco IOS-XR Telnet and SSH configuration Every network node must be remotely managed. This can be either out of band, meaning you are coming to the node via a network dedicated to management traffic only. Or inband, [...]
In this demo, we configure OSPF single area between an XR node and IOS node. It is assumed that you are familiar with the IOS config syntax, therefore only XR part will be shown. [...]
For most of us, working with Cisco means Cisco IOS. A syntax and CLI we are familiar with, a way of configuring we have learnt from the majority of books and materials. But when you start looking at Cisco [...]
If you are using CML-2 P for your labs and testing, you will very likely want to test reachability between hosts, perhaps run traceroutes, as you would in a real life troubleshooting scenario. In this post, you will learn [...]
This video shows you how to setup CML-Personal, to be able to have reachability and access Cisco virtual nodes from your PC or macOS. Some of the advantages of being able to reach your Cisco nodes running on CML [...]
In this post, I will run you through how to install Cisco CML-Personal on MacOS, fire up you first lab and start your hands on practice. As at this post's date, CML-Personal license is US$199 per year, and can [...]
In this lab, we will go over different multicast common deployment scenarios. 1st section will cover PIM dense mode and its behaviour and 2nd section covers PIM sparse mode. Both sections starts with configuration, and ends with debugging, validation [...]
