Virtual LANs Notes

by The Network Technician

Virtual LAN Concepts All LAN devices are in the same broadcast domain. Common reasons to use vlans: flexible designs by departments or groups instead of by location reduce overhead to each host in a vlan by segmenting reduce workload of STP by limiting a vlan to a single access switch enforce better security separate traffic [...]

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5 Easy Steps to Securing Your Cisco Switch or Router

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Every network administrator should know how to secure their network so that they lessen the encounter of malicious activity. Sometimes it really just comes down to following some best practices in securing a Cisco switch or router. Here are 5 easy steps to secure your Cisco switch or router. enable secret When you use the [...]

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I Successfully Passed the Cisco ICND1 Exam!

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After many days of hard work, studying, memorizing and testing I have successfully passed the Cisco ICND1 portion of the CCNA certification. Over the weekend I felt that I was 100% ready so I decided to bump the test up one day. I did a lot of reading in order to pass the ICND1 which [...]

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CCNA ICND1 Test is Scheduled!

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The next steps toward my Cisco CCNA certification is nearing! I’ve decided to take the two test route for two reasons: Easier to study Less Pressure I didn’t want to pack so much information to study for in one test and I feel that doing ICND1 and then ICND2 will be very easy for me. [...]

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Windows Police Pro – How To Remove From Windows

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There’s nothing like frustrating over removing malware from a Windows PC. This blog post will give you directions, although time consuming, on how to remove Windows Police Pro. Below are four different thumbnails of what Windows Police Pro looks like. Windows Police Pro masks itself as an anti-virus or malware remover application. It’s neither and [...]

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CCNA Notes – IP Addressing and Routing

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IP addressing is the most important topic of the CCNA. You must know IP addressing inside and out in order to build, modify and troubleshoot a network. The CCNA will test your knowledge in this topic with lots of diagrams. Another core topic to know for the CCNA is routing, of course. This is a [...]

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CCNA Notes on the Basics of WANs

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As I progress in my CCNA studies I’ll be posting the notes I write up while reading or watching any CCNA training material. There’s a lot of fundamentals to understand and memorize for the CCNA exam but it also helps to actually know the material so you don’t have to look it up when you’re [...]

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CCNA IP Routing – Administrative Distance

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When there are multiple routing protocols on a router and metrics do not help, they use the default administrative distance per routing protocol. These are good numbers to memorize for the CCNA test. Cisco may test you on a simple question such as: What is the administrative distance for RIPv1? Share and Enjoy:

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