Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: Filtering BGP Updates With Prefix Lists
A major part of your BSCI and CCNP exam success is mastering BGP, and that includes filtering BGP routing updates. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to filter BGP updates with prefix lists.
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Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: EIGRP Route Summarization
Summarizing routes is a vital skill to learn to pass the BSCI exam and get one step closer to earning your CCNP. The actual binary conversions are only part of the test, though! You’ve got to know how to correctly apply...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: BGP Adjacency States
To pass the BSCI exam, earn your CCNP certification, and become an outstanding networker, you’ve got to master the many details of BGP – and trust me, there are a lot of details to master! Before you get into the more...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Exam Tutorial: A Guide To Ipv6 Addressing
Learning IPv6 is paramount in your efforts to pass the BSCI exam and go on to earn your CCNP, and it’s going to help in your real-world networking career as well. IPv6 can be confusing at first, but it’s like...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification Exam: Five OSPF Details You Must Know
Preparing for your BSCI exam on your way to the Cisco CCNP certification, you can quickly get overwhelmed by the details! Here are five commonly overlooked points you should keep in mind when it comes to your OSPF...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: Route Redistribution And The Seed Metric
In the first part of this free CCNP / BSCI tutorial, we looked at how leaving one simple word out of our route redistribution configuration – “subnets” – resulted in an incomplete routing...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: Troubleshooting Route Redistribution, Part I
If there’s one CCNP / BSCI topic that looks so easy but can lead to a real headache, it’s route redistribution. I’m not even talking about the routing loops and suboptimal routing that can...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: The Local Preference BGP Attribute
When studying for your BSCI exam for the CCNP, you get your first taste of BGP. One of the major differences between BGP and the other protocols you’ve studied to date is that BGP uses attributes to describe...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: The BGP Attribute MED
When you’re preparing to pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, one of the biggest challenges is learning BGP. BGP is totally different from any protocol you learned to earn your CCNA certification, and one of...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: Introduction To ISIS Terminology
When you’re studying to pass the BSCI exam and earn your CCNP certification, you’re going to be introduced to ISIS. ISIS and OSPF are both link-state protocols, but ISIS works quite differently from OSPF. ...
Cisco CCNP / BSCI Certification: BGP Route Reflector Tutorial
When you’re studying for your BSCI exam and CCNP certification, you quickly realize that BGP is a whole new world from anything you’ve previously studies. One topic that sometimes confuses CCNP candidates is when...
Cisco CCNP / BCSI Exam Tutorial: Configuring EIGRP Packet Authentication
Configuring RIPv2 and EIGRP authentication with key chains can be tricky at first, and the syntax isn’t exactly easy to remember. But for BSCI and CCNP exam success, we’ve got to be able to perform this...