Wendell Odom, Cisco press author, instructor and blogger was recently a repeat guest for Network World chat. Attendees asked him the best ways to build a home lab, which certifications still have ...

With a simulator, there are always missing commands and programming errors, and it can never really be as complete as the real IOS. However, because an emulator runs the IOS, you get every feature ...

Guys I would like to get 2 Cisco switches for my home lab. First off I want them to be gigabit now on to the major problem. I remember them being very loud switches and the house I own does not have a ...

All Cisco routers have two special types of lines, and many Cisco routers have a third. What are these lines, and how do you configure them? These are things that every network admin should know. All ...

If you go to EBay, and search on “Cisco router”, you get a lot of hits (over 7000 just a few minutes ago.) It can be quite daunting if you’re early into your CCENT or CCNA study, three chapters into ...

This was a challenge we were given in my CCNP class tonight. The instructor did not realize how complicated this actually is since he did not do it himself. Took me about 2 hours to solve it.