January, 2008

David’s top Cisco articles of 2007 – Check em’ out!

I am pleased to announce that 8 of the top 30 Searchnetworking.com articles of 2007 were written by - who? - David Davis! As these were...

How to secure your router with IOS Access-Lists (ACL)

I wanted to mention to all my blog readers out there about a video that I posted on my website entitled: Harden your Cisco Router with IOS ACLs In this video, I walk you...

Setting up a VLAN with the Cisco IOS

Recently, in my forums at my personal website, I have a VLAN Question thread going with over 20 posts and 638 views. Additionally, I have a free video where I demonstrate...

Cisco CCIE History

Being a CCIE myself, I just love CCIE History. I read a great article over at NetworkWorld submitted by Brad Reese. Here are some cool things I learned from the story:

• The CCIE was announced on September 27,...

“LinkLove” to fellow Cisco Bloggers

I'd like to take a moment to offer some "link love" (as they say on "the net") to a couple of great Cisco blogs I have found and have learned a lot from. They are: CCIE Pursuit

Cisco’s new version of PoE

Cisco launched a new version of PoE called ePoE or "enhanced" power over ethernet. What's this? Confusing marketing at its finest? Let's find out... This new version of PoE is only available in the Catalyst 3750-E and 3560-E Series switches, with ePoE availability for Cisco's Catalyst...

How to download and run a FREE Cisco Router emulator

I posted an article recently on how to download and run a FREE Cisco router emulator (see Practice Cisco Router Configuartion using a free emulator). I...

Are you concerned about IP version 6 (IPv6)?

Are you concerned about IPv6? Should you start learning about it and converting to it now? These are all valid concerns. I mean, "everyone" has been talking about how IPv4 (our current IP addressing scheme) will run out of IP addresses for a long long time. "Everyone" says that you need to...

Anyone out there a CCENT?

I am curious to hear from those who are working on their CCENT certification. Have you tried it? Or have you even heard of the CCENT yet?

What is the CCDE?

Cisco released a new certification offering called the CCDE. What is the CCDE? Let's find out! The CCDE is the new Cisco Certified Design Expert and it is the pinnacle of design and networking architecture of Cisco technologies and it is equivalent to the Cisco CCIE. It had been rumored, in the...