NetLab+ the future

DIY with pod designer – https://www.netdevgroup.com/content/build/

Where practice leads to success… serious
https://www.netdevgroup.com/products/

 

https://portal.netdevgroup.com/

 

 

Ultimate Textbook Cyber Security Associate

https://login.cengage.com/cb/login.htm

This is the place to find the CS411 book and then by extention the whole cybersecurity associate can be built from these books.

Wireless Information and Games

Wireless Explorer game.  Login and follow this link.
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-7560
Deals with AP and setting omnidirectional, directional, and yagi antennas.  Also uses wireless bridges and repeaters to extend the network reach.  Interesting to see that bridges are used in a manner that can’t be replaced by VPNs.

Check out the Exploring Wireless Networking presentation.
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-1299#/?page=2
Wireless LAN Chapter from Cisco Press
Notes from the chapter

Subnetting Game

Use Internet Explorer

Registration required. Opens in another page.
You must login first at https://learningnetwork.cisco.com

Area 51 — follow this link
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-1802

 

Certification Exam Cram

Reviewing information from multiple sources, taking training classes, on the job experience(the best) and passing those exams are helpful in establishing oneself as a serious engineer.  Here is an uptodate review of the old, “are exams worth the trouble” because of exam cram.

Link lost. Sorry.

WireShark

Open source network analyzer.  Another post Ethernet II vs 802.3 has some wireshark links to packets like CDP and ARP?  Here are some more links about Wirshark and I will use this post to keep track of the links  Laura Chappel who has just published a massive book on WireShark.

• http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid7_gci1512438,00.html?track=NL-81&ad=768869&asrc=EM_USC_11672959&uid=725227 Filter traffic.
• http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/generic/0,295582,sid7_gci1513386,00.html?track=NL-81&ad=768869&asrc=EM_USC_11672958&uid=725227 Some tutorials.
• http://wiki.wireshark.org/SampleCaptures Sample wireshark captures!

Switching Loops – STP

40 minutes of video on STP switching loops http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CCNAWebinars.htm

Review STP in prep for EtherChannel.  Root Bridge, BPDU, Bridge ID, STP database, Port cost, Nondesignated ports, forwarding ports, blocked ports.

DEC protocol is STP.  IEEE version is 802.1D

Bypass startup-config

This is actually password recovery but bypass startup-config gives more meaning.  Sometimes you can save your configuration and when you reboot it goes into setup mode.

http://www-tss.cisco.com/eservice/compass/common/activities/password_1700.htm

Cisco password recovery  google keywords

Cool video from bryant advantage  http://www.thebryantadvantage.com/CCNA640802CCENTConfigurationRegister.htm

Latest Cisco link to procedures for Cisco equipmenthttps://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/iosswrel/ps1831/products_tech_note09186a00801746e6.shtml

Texts

http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=1587202174

Network lab simulator

CCENT

Interconnecting Cisco Networking Devices 1 (ICND1)  http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/current_exams/640-822.html

and the CCNA

http://www.cisco.com/web/learning/le3/le2/le0/le9/learning_certification_type_home.html