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CCIE Routing and Switching Practice Lab
By Martin J. Duggan, Maurilio P. Gorito
Aug 20, 2004
This practice lab from Martin Duggan and Maurilio Gorito will help you prepare for the CCIE, with a focus on Routing Information Protocol (RIP V2).
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Cisco LAN Switching Fundamentals: Configuring Switches
By David Barnes, Basir Sakandar
Dec 23, 2004
This chapter provides guidance and configuration examples for connecting switches running both native and hybrid software configurations, and offers examples of both Layer 3 and Layer 2 connectivity between switches.
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Cisco OSPF Route Redistribution
By William R. Parkhurst
Jul 5, 2002
Use this complete reference to Cisco OSPF commands next time your network needs route redistribution. Ten example scenarios clearly illustrate the purpose, syntax, and usage of each command.
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How a LAN Switch Works
By Matthew J Castelli
Dec 17, 2004
This chapter explains how frame switching works, and what precisely happens while a frame is switching.
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Internet Addressing and Routing First Step
By William R. Parkhurst
Nov 5, 2004
This chapter explains how internet routing works, and how internet addresses are assigned and utilized by network structures.
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Dynamic Routing Protocols
By Jeff Doyle
Nov 16, 2001
This sample chapter from CCIE: Routing TCP/IP Volume I shows how routers can discover how to correctly switch packets to their respective destinations automatically and share that information with other routers via dynamic routing protocols.
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Traffic Engineering with MPLS
By Eric Osborne, Ajay Simha
Aug 16, 2002
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Backbone Router Configuration
By Catherine Paquet, Diane Teare
Mar 14, 2003
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Understanding High Availability of IP and MPLS Networks
By Iftekhar Hussain
Jan 14, 2005
This chapter describes major sources of network failures and provides an overview of techniques that are commonly used to improve availability of IP/MPLS networks. In particular, this chapter outlines mechanisms for reducing network downtime due to control-plane failures.
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CCNP BSCI Exam: Using OSPF Across Multiple Areas
By Clare Gough
Apr 25, 2003
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Early Cbus Routers
By Vijay Bollapragada, Russ White, Curtis Murphy
Feb 8, 2002
This sample chapter from CCIE Professional Development: Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture covers the following key topics: AGS+ hardware architecture, packet switching with the Cbus, and the Cisco 7000 Series router.
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Protecting Your Network from the Wi-Fi Protected Setup Security Hole
By Eric Geier
Mar 12, 2012
Even if you’ve encrypted and secured your wireless network with Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA or WPA2), a security hole affecting most wireless routers may make it fairly easy for those with the right tools to hack your network and connect. Eric Geier shows how to prevent this and protect your network.
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Network Security First-Step: Firewalls
By Donald Stoddard, Thomas M. Thomas
Feb 8, 2012
This chapter dissects a firewall’s duties to understand what makes a firewall operate and how it does its job.
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Creating a Hotspot Gateway with RouterOS
By Eric Geier
Nov 2, 2009
Eric Geier shows how to set up the integrated hotspot gateway with RouterOS.
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Creating a VPN Server with RouterOS
By Eric Geier
Oct 27, 2009
Eric Geier continues his RouterOS series by discussing its VPN capabilities
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Supercharging Your Cheap Router with Enterprise Features
By Eric Geier
Oct 5, 2009
Did you know you can replace the firmware on your router? Eric Geier describes the highs and lows of aftermarket firmware projects.
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Turn an Old PC into a LAN Server with RouterOS, Part 2
By Eric Geier
Sep 28, 2009
Eric Geier concludes his two-part tutorial on getting a RouterOS machine up and running on a spare PC.
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IP Routing Use Cases
By Muhammad Afaq Khan
Sep 22, 2009
This chapter discusses the capabilities of the Cisco ASR 1000 series router family and then reviews how those strengths can be used to address relevant problems.
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Turn an Old PC into a LAN Server with RouterOS, Part 1
By Eric Geier
Sep 21, 2009
Eric Geier shows you how to get an enterprise router at a fraction of the cost with the MikroTik RouterOS software that you can load onto an old PC.
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Cisco LAN Switching Configuration : Server Load Balancing (SLB)
By David Hucaby, David Jansen, Steve McQuerry
Jun 24, 2009
This chapter covers the steps required to load balance traffic to one or more server farms and firewall farms, and also explains the steps needed to define probes that test server and firewall farm functionality.

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