Branko Santo

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Category: Old IT stuff

A chump installing Fedora 7 x64 and Dynamips

Well it was time! I have pushed Dynamips on Windows to its limits, the stack dumps are becoming too often. A couple of weeks ago I managed to pony up the cash for a new nice machine and decided the best thing would be to install Linux. Considering several distributions I opted for Fedora 7 [...]

VLANs?

How many VLANs can you have? There are several VLAN ranges that are in effect. First and foremost there are VLANs 0 and 4095 which are reserved for system use only. Than you have the default VLAN 1, can not be modified or deleted. Important thing to know is that you can change your default [...]

BCMSN top down view!

BCMSN as one of the requisites for CCNP is all about switching. There is a lot of new stuff for me as I have not yet gotten into switching that much. Wireless and network security is also included and from what I have seen makes up around 30-40% of the material on the exam. Lets [...]

My first serious rack rental

I have previously tried out Mindtech communications rack rental for the CCNP just because I was too lazy to find an IOS that had IS-IS capabilities. It worked nicely and for $14 you get 20 x 1 hour sessions. The schedule is mostly empty so you can fit in usually the same day. Now for [...]

BSCI passed. Easy? So so. Prepared? Not enough!

Yeah I passed, but with only 798/1000 and 790 is the pass mark. So just one more question wrong and I would be a goner. Not that I am unhappy with passing, but the fact that really bugs me is I totally didn’t have a clue about 2 or 3 of the questions. There were [...]

How to become a CCIE, earn some cash and become famous at the same time

All this at the same time? Not possible surely! Well depends on how you look at it. I have a plan What kind of job would allow you to be sorounded by technology, have you earning steady cash with sensible working hours and perhaps lead you to stardom? Not sure? Could it be a trainer? [...]