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Answers: L2 EtherChannel 1
Today’s lab: Check your static EtherChannel config. It’s pretty simple, but worth a quick review. Answers below the fold as usual. And check the original lab post for the lab exercise. Figure 1: Three...
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EIGRP and Delay
#EIGRP uses bandwidth and delay as components in its metric calculation by default. This lab uses a design and topology with all gigabit interfaces. The bandwidth part of the calculation uses the...
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Answers: Basic EIGRP
Configure EIGRP, and configure the link delay – and influence the routes in a small lab network. That’s the summary of your task for this most recent lab. Check out the original lab post first, create...
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IPv6 Addressing with OSPFv3 – 2
This lab gives you a small 3-router topology, with a basic IPv6 global unicast address design, and sends you forth to configure the basics: IPv6 addressing, routing, and OSPFv3. It’s a big long for...
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Answers: IPv6 Addressing with OSPFv3 – 2
This #CCNA lab features IPv6 addressing and OSPFv3. As always, the requirements in the lab give you straightforward requirements. Create your own answer first! My answer sits here below the fold....
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HSRP 2
The default gateway plays a huge role in IP networks. How do redundant default gateways back each other up? How do you control which is the active gateway when all is well, and what happens during the...
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Answers: HSRP 2
This latest #HSRP lab requires you to think about the variety of optional settings and choose which non-default settings need to be configured. For instance, how do you control which router becomes...
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Serial Config 2
Many of us practice creating serial links in lab – but what about when you create a serial link with a real serial link from the Telco? What small differences (if any) exist in the config? This lab...
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Answers: Serial Config 2
This latest lab requires just a few commands on two neighboring routers to get a serial link working. Configure PPP, IPv4 addresses, and get the link up and working with the Telco serial link. Check...
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ICND1 100-105 Exam Topics, Part 1: New Topics, Moved Topics
Yes, Cisco announced new #ICND1, #ICND2, and #CCNA R&S exams in May 2016. The new exams – 100-105, 200-105, and 200-125, respectively – have plenty of interesting new topics and new performance...
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ICND1 100-105 Exam Topics, Part 2: Performance Levels and Removed Topics
The new #CCNA and #CCENT are out as announced by Cisco on May 17th, 2016. The previous post revealed some of the specifics about the half of the CCNA R&S content covered in the ICND1 100-105 exam....
View ArticleCCNA R&S 3.0: Roadmap to Wendell’s Announcement Posts
These blog posts about the new CCNA R&S exams (May 2016) are for you. So, I thought you might like to know a little more about what is coming in the weeks following Cisco’s big announcement day of...
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ICND2 200-105 Exam Topics, Part 1: New CLI Topics, Analyzed
This post continues a series designed to reveal the details of the content as listed in the various exams’ listing of exam topics. The focus here: the new ICND2 200-105 exam (the second half of the...
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PAP 2
PPP authentication has been around for a long time with both Password Authentication Protocol (PAP) and Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP). Although most people use CHAP (for stronger...
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Answers: PAP 2
Unidirectional PAP authentication – sounds like a lot to do, but it just takes a few commands. Check out the requirements back in the lab post, create your answers, and come back here to check your...
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Basic SNMP Config 1
Interestingly, Cisco added a couple of smaller management-oriented protocols – including SNMP – to the CCNA R&S exam mix when they changed the exams back in 2013 (exams 100-101, 200-101, 200-120)....
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Answers: Basic SNMP Config 1
Can you configure SNMP version 2C without looking up the commands? Can you secure it with what effectively acts like passwords? You know the drill: go try the original lab exercise first, and then come...
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Extended Numbered ACL 1
Ready to review how to match subnets with extended ACLs? And how to match well-known ports? Today’s lab lets you do just that. Along the way, you get to think about where to place the ACL to most...
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Answers: Extended Numbered ACL 1
This lab requires you to think about two big ideas. First, you have to think about how to configure the syntax of extended numbered ACLs to match well-known destination ports. Also you need to think...
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PPP over Ethernet 1
PPP over Ethernet (PPPoE) can be one of the more challenging configuration topics on the CCNA exam. Why? First, many network engineers ignore PPPoE as something that is configured only occasionally....
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