Author Archives: oldboyscout
Huawei\HP and Cisco CLI reference
A new book in the HP Press Marketplace is so useful (and so free as pdf version). It is “HP Networking and Cisco CLI Reference Guide – Version 2”. It is manual about three CLIs – old HP CLI (for HP Procurve Switches), new HP CLI Comware 5 (for new HP switches, from 3800 and … Continue reading
New RFC about networks (July 2012)
A few of the new RFC about networking that interesting personal to me. Just couple of words. 6660 – Encoding Three Pre-Congestion Notification (PCN) States in the IP Header Using a Single Diffserv Codepoint (DSCP). Revision of RFC 5696. Revision of RFC 5696. It is further improvement QoS in the path to the ideal situation … Continue reading
Cisco EXPO 2012 Kiev
Cisco announced EXPO Kiev 2012. You can see agenda and other information here (russian). The differences between agenda of this event and agenda of EXPO 2011 : – not so many about virtualisation (it is linked with this news, I think). By the way, you cannot see EMC in the list of partners or stends; … Continue reading
CCNP SP Lab topology
I was on the webinar from Cisco about new certification “CCNP SP” month ago. One scheme from this webinar is pretty interesting. This is topology for CCNP SP lab. You can see it is using 6(!) ASR 9000, 4 ASR 1000 and a few small things. I bet you will not find academy that really … Continue reading
Problem with CIsco WLC and AIR-AP1231G
Recently I met problem with old Cisco AP (model AIR-AP1231G). The problem was in the connection between WLC and AP. The procedure with new LWAPP\CAPWAP AP look like this: – AP with factory ios for autonomy work try to find WLC when loading; – if AP did not find WLC, it stays to live like … Continue reading
World IPv6 Launch tomorrow
By the way, “World IPv6 Launch” is so dramatic name for this. For years many big generators of the content like Google and Facebook have ipv6 DNS-name and working through ipv6. But they are only big islands in the ipv4 ocean of the rest Internet. The most of the hosters and content providers are have … Continue reading
CiscoLive!365
Cisco is continuing to attempt save your position at market with help of increase amount and quality readily available information about their technologies and decisions. Recently it opened portal CiscoLive!365, where you can found all presentations from Cisco Live! events for last years. This information is so fine cataloged for level of readers, technologies, products, … Continue reading
New “private” network 100.64.0.0/10
Good news for service providers that faced with issue of necessarily NAT from client network to client network, from client network to provider network and etc. They faced situations where networks from RFC 1918 is not enough. The new RFC 6598 wants to help them and defines new “private” network 100.64.0.0/10, that can be used … Continue reading
CCIP retired
It is continuation of last post (about CCNP SP). Cisco thought that CCIP (and almost of all its exams) outdated. The new certification (CCNP SP) was came, so you can take CCIP till October 29 2012 only, BGP, MPLS (and MPLS+BGP) exams could be passed till July 27 2012. It is not so bad news … Continue reading
New Cisco Certification – CCNP® Service Provider
Cisco has been announced the new certification of Professional level. You have to pass 4 new exam – service provider routing (642-883 SPROUTE), service provider advanced routing (642-885 SPADVROUTE), service provider Next-Generation Core Network Services (642-887 SPCORE), Next-Generation Egde Network Services (642-889 SPEDGE). Also, you must be CCNA SP to have possibility pass this exam. … Continue reading