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I'll deploy another folding VM!

I pretty much took my gaming desktop and turned it into an ESXi whitebox. The only thing that didn't work was the software raid controller on my motherboard or the NIC. I bought an Intel PCI-E NIC and I have had no other problems for 5 months. Specs: ASUS Maximus IV Gene-Z Intel i5 2500K 32GB...

I don't do ANY computer work for free anymore, I have studied too much and worked too hard to devalue my services. Additionally, on my personal computer I have a few IDEs , some text editors, an SSH client, vSphere client, media player, MS Office 2013 and Steam client. Clean desktop and...

Looking good!

In 50 years our embedded personal computers will do that speed :D

Just upgraded my physical host to ESXi 5.1, going to rebuild my virtual vSphere Lab with ESXi 5.1 also.

I can't answer your questions in regards to VSA but I can offer a cheaper (free) alternative for virtualized shared storage. Have you considered FreeNAS?

Have you considered a whitebox or three. You could easily build some i5/i7, 32GB DDR3 boxes and then run virtual ESXi hosts and storage as guest VM's on top of a bare metal ESXi install. All you need to do is echo vhv.allow = "TRUE" into the \etc\vmware\config file on the bare metal install...

Although security through obscurity is never a valid solution one thing that I do on my home network is forward a random port to RDP to an external server. I also lock down just who can access RDP services from the WAN via an ACL. Of course in a production environment everything would also be...

The Cisco Campus model is definitely something to familiarize yourself with. I've deployed and maintained it in several large networks and I even run it in my home network. http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Campus/campover.html

BPDUGUARD and switchports configured as static access ports.

Congratulations! Keep up the momentum and chase down CCNP!

Got all of my wisdom teeth torn out today, but I am using my extra time off and this weekend to spend a lot of time with BGP. Forcing myself to use minimal painkillers so I can keep my mind clear, plus a little pain helps me stay alert during some of my extended reading sessions.

Well, after talking with a few of the CCIE's at work I decided to ramp up my study plans. One of the CCIE's actually got his magic numbers at 25 years old ( I am 22) and he told me that I could get my CCIE just as quickly based on what he has seen so far. So, I got motivated and pulled the...

Nice, I am going to get started with CCIE R&S as soon as I finish up CCNP R&S. For CCNP Switch I used 2x 3550 and 2x 2950 which worked pretty well (I passed the exam) The only problem with the 3550 is that it can't do PVLAN's or IPv6 so once I start CCIE I'll need to get some 3560's. I set...

Oops my bad, yeah you will need CDP! I just had it off on that port since I am not using it for anything, I fixed the output.

The 3750 is a great platform, I've seen them deployed in IDF's with no cooling for years and never failing. Just left a site where we had about 60 3560/3750 deployed. Although one time there was a weird PoE issue with one switch, it simply wouldn't supply power to the phones connected to one...

Re subnet your network and map the new subnets to VLAN's Example: 192.168.0.0 /22 Vlan 1 192.168.0.0 /25 Vlan 2 192.168.0.128 /25 Vlan 3 192.168.1.0 /25 Vlan 4 192.168.1.128 /25 Vlan 5 192.168.2.0 /24 Vlan 6 192.168.3.0 /24 Create the scopes on the DHCP server as you would normally. Your...

Configure the switchports as access ports. The reason your laptop cannot ping when you connect with a 172.20.100.X address is because the trunk ports are going to place all untagged traffic into vlan 1 since vlan 1 is the native vlan in your config. This means that those frames will still make...

So, I am about to configure some more networks into the massive topology I have now, I am going to scale out the service provider network and put POPs in each major "city" I'll also be deploying 7200 routers in the SP cloud so I am moving the whole lab to a VM with 16GB RAM and 4 cores.

Looks like it was done to make the lab easily reconfigurable.

Yeah, EA pretty much destroyed a lot of awesome series that Westwood created :(

Nice clean rack and good patch work. What are you studying for? :)

Gnome :D

Nice!

It was skimmed over when I was studying SWITCH. One pre-configured macro is "switchport host". EEUSDS013550#conf t Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. EEUSDS013550(config)#int f0/1 EEUSDS013550(config-if)#switchport host switchport mode will be set to access...

Remember that transparent switches still pass updates so if you are running them between clients and servers they need to be in the same domain/have the same vtp pass.

From the standpoint of a normal user, see how far you can penetrate a network. Then tell the owners of the network how to fix it.

GNS3 is limited to what hardware is installed :( It is based on dynamips which hasn't been updated for a few years :( Once I start my CCIE studies I will probably have to build a mostly hardware lab.

GNS3 doesn't really need anything special, but I would recommend 4GB of RAM and at least a 2 core CPU. You just install it within Windows, Mac OSX or Linux, there are a few things you need to configure but within 5 minutes you can be building networks. You will need the following: gns3 all in...

I don't have a scaled out OSPF lab right now, but I have a massive EIGRP one setup and I will show you the beauty of sumarization. I removed a few routes from the routing table for this example.You can see on this side that the 10.0.64.0/18 network hasn't been summarized and the routing...

This is how I am doing networking in my home lab, tagging traffic from my vSphere host out to a trunk port on my Catalyst. Private VLAN's won't really allow complete isolation of different VLAN's on a interface, they can isolate interfaces from each other or only allow specific groups of...

Hehe, I've got an 1841 at home and 38XX stuff at work lol

I miss that new gear feeling, we got 8 new Dell PowerEdge R710's in at work about 8 months ago but nothing else lately :( Last year my team was building network stacks for a lot of branch sites and we had new 2811's and 3750's in boxes piled up all over the shop :D

I've been using the 3725 Emulator with c3725-adventerprisek9-mz.124-15.T10 for all of my ROUTE lab work thus far, put in about 8 lab hours over the last 3 days with no issues.

I would reccommend GNS3, it cant really do any switching but it is awesome for Routing since you are working with real IOS.

To keep things simple the earliest implementations of spanning tree had all VLAN's share an STP instance and this was called Common Spanning Tree or CST. Modern Cisco switches now use PVST+ by default, PVST+ creates a single instance per vlan so you can do fun stuff like load balancing by...

My Router#show ip nat trans Pro Inside global Inside local Outside local Outside global udp x.x.61.0:52 10.0.0.2:123 96.47.67.105:123 96.47.67.105:123 udp x.x.61.0:123 10.0.0.4:123 64.90.182.55:123 64.90.182.55:123 udp x.x.61.0:123 10.0.0.4:123...

Just have him start out by hosting a website from home, securing your home network and them maybe he could try to find some small security consulting jobs, after that just keep moving up!

Me too pretty much, I have two redundant core/distro switches running HSRP, seperate VLANs for my VMware lab, External web site, Users, Storage, etc.