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EIGRP Notes – Unequal Cost Path Load Balancing

June 6, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Per the standard rules, please correct anything that's wrong. One of EIGRP's big features is the ability to use unequal cost paths for load balancing. This is done with the variance command.

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EIGRP Notes – Message Types

June 5, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Please correct if I’m being stupid…which is a lot of the time. Hello : Discovers and maintains neighbors Destination:  224.0.0.10 Important fields: K values Update : An update to the topology such as a route withdrawal or a metric change Destination: 224.0.0.10 -or- unicast during neighbor discovery Important fields: Message sequence number Route being updated including...

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OSPF Notes – Network Types

June 3, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Corrections are always welcome.

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Wireshark and EtherIP Packets

June 3, 2011
By Aaron Conaway
Wireshark and EtherIP Packets

I got a call from our Systems and Security guys today to talk about a Wireshark capture they had done from a user VLAN. They had noticed two frames that were destined for some seemingly random host in the same network as they were in, but the source and destination IP addresses reported...

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OSPF Notes – Neighbor States

June 1, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

My prediction about covering network types was wrong. I'm going to puke out some information about neighbor states for now. As is always the case, corrections are welcome.

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OSPF Notes – LSA Types

June 1, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

Yes, it is inevitable that I cover these. I'm sure network types will be next.

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OSPF Notes – Message Types

June 1, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I have had my nose deep in several books in preparation for my CCIE R&S written exam, so I haven't been blogging much at all. Now that I've made it to the more familiar topics, I'm hoping to get some notes posted. I'll start with OSPF message types.

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Home-grown IOU Scripts

May 16, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

I'm sure you've all heard of Cisco IOU by now, and I'm finally catching up with the other bloggers of the world by mentioning it. It's an executable version of an IOS image that runs on a Unix (or Unix-like) platform and it's the backend behind Cisco's Learning Labs.

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Cisco Live 2011 Schedule

April 29, 2011
By Aaron Conaway
Cisco Live 2011 Schedule

For the first time ever, I’m headed to Cisco Live – the big Cisco users conference in Las Vegas! I usually don’t go to these things since I wind up just hanging out by myself, but I’m meeting all sorts of people there – from bloggers to Tweeps to personal friends. It should be...

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The Four Stages of Expertise (In Your Mind)

April 19, 2011
By Aaron Conaway

If you've worked in any particular area for some significant amount of time, you have probably noticed that how much you think you know about a subject has changed over time. This is nothing earth-shattering, and we've all had this realization over the course of our lives; it's come up a lot lately...

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