another candidate gets his number

I just want to put this out there to congratulate Ethan Banks on getting his number.  He passed his lab today.  He only has his Blackberry with him, so he had his wife get onto his Cisco account to check his results, and he is now CCIE #20655.
Now I just need to get my butt [...]

had some time to sit down and watch some more videos

With the upcoming changes in our network, I’m going to have my hands on a lot more switches than routers over the next few months.  I figured this would be a good time to start watching the BCMSN videos to brush up on STP knowledge, as well as focus on GLBP, HSRP, and VRRP.  Depending [...]

ugh…

I hate it when I cut cables wrong and don’t check them before I need to use them. I cut a T1 x-over cable for the T1 WICs I have sitting around and didn’t bother to check it. I went to use it tonight and I have the wrong 4/5 pin pair. [...]