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David Rothera

David Rothera

The moans and groans of CCIE #38338

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Tumble-weed post

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Sorry for it being a bit quiet over here since the new year, I had a few weeks of on vacation in Disney in Florida and then shortly followed by me moving house so things have been a little hectic to say the least.

IPv6 MLD Snooping

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I have finally finished my first read through of the CCIE R&S Written OCG and now is time to lab out some of my weaker points, read through a pile of RFC’s and then eventually book and take the exam.

Status: All systems are go…

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Things have been pretty hectic over the last few weeks/month and so I haven’t had much dedicated study time, sometimes only managing a few pages of the CCIE Cert Guide per day.

CCIP done…. CCIE here I come!

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I have been a little quiet on the blogging front for a while, the reason being I have recently taken on some more responsibilities at work and have also decided to knuckle down and finish my CCIP.

Sun Quad NICs and x86_64 kernels

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After the last post when I had built up and installed my new Dynamips server along with a set of Sun Quad NIC cards (501-4366, HME or Happy Meal as they are also known) I started to run into some issues.

Dynamips server reporting for duty…

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Back when I first starting studying for my CCNP I built a rack of equipment to lab things up and practice with (picture below) and after completing my CCNP and moving down the CCIE track (after stopping off for a pit-stop at the CCIP station….

Snippet: Packet capture using Cisco PIX/ASA

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If you are having issues with your PIX/ASA firewall (or people believe that there is) there are a couple of checks that you can do just to make sure that the issue isn’t the firewall (as the server guys usually point at the firewall first!