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Here are the answers to part 4 of 4 of a new Config Virtual Museum (VM) piece. This piece gave you the same task on six ports, but in different combinations: to secure the ports using the Cisco switch port security feature. Also, if you’re using my ICND1 Official Cert Guide book, look got Chapters [...]

This is the fourth of four new Config Virtual Museum (VM) pieces. This last piece lets you configure a few variations on the Cisco switch Port Security feature. This feature lets the switch monitor incoming frames, look at the source MAC address, and determine whether frames with that source address should or should not be [...]

Here are the answers to part 3 of 4 of a new Config Virtual Museum (VM) piece. This piece gave you some tasks related to how to configure switch ports to achieve a particular speed and duplex setting on some Ethernet NICs. Also, if you’re using my ICND1 Official Cert Guide book, Look got Chapter [...]

This is the third of four new Config Virtual Museum (VM) pieces. The first piece looked at initial switch config to prepare the switch with passwords. The second piece looked at switch IP config. This piece examines CCENT/ICND1 level interface configuration, with many options for how auto-negotiation works. For this post, instead of just asking [...]

Here are the answers to part 2 of 4 of a new Config Virtual Museum (VM) piece. The first piece took a couple of switches from no configuration, to being ready for either Telnet or Telnet + SSH, including password protection – except the fact that neither switch yet has an IP address. Check out [...]

This is the second of four new Config Virtual Museum (VM) pieces. The first piece took a couple of switches from no configuration, to being ready for either Telnet or Telnet + SSH, including password protection – except the fact that neither switch yet has an IP address. This VM piece begins with that configuration, [...]

This blog post simply lists the answers to the earlier Config VM from a few days ago. The idea is straightforward all the way around – straightforward configuration requirements, and straightforward answers – no guile, no tricks, just a chance to exercise. The topic for this post: Mostly passwords, and generally doing administrative config on [...]

This is the first of four new Config Virtual Museum (VM) pieces. These four take you from the very basics for LAN switches, up through most of the configuration commands for switches as mentioned for the ICND1 exam. If you’re following along with the ICND1 Official Cert Guide book, these four VMs will pretty much [...]

This kind of post is meant to be straightforward, but I did add one sort-of sneaky requirement into the list. Why is it sneaky? Well, it’s really more of an ICND2 topic than ICND1, and I try and keep those over in the CCNA Skills blog. Today’s post shows the answers to the lab problem [...]

This blog post sets up a short RIP-2 config exercise. It begins with a router triangle, IP addresses, and working interfaces – essentially the same starting state as the static routes exercise posted recently. All routers can ping their own IP addresses, but the routers only know their own connected routes. You job: Add RIP-2 [...]