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Well it is Black Friday. I woke up this morning to an empty bed because my wife hit the stores early. But shopping is not for me. I only go to the store if I know exactly what I want. Otherwise I heavily rely on the internet. When I bought my wife’s Mackbook a few days ago they employees told us they were going to have some pretty good sales today. Check them out online and save yourself from the Black Friday crowds!

Well I can’t type that fast yet but I broke down and got an iPhone. I got my wife one as well and I got her a new MacBook also. I figure that she deserved it since she puts up with my many hours of CCIE study.

So far I love it.

Do you have any suggestion on how to use it for cisco studies? How about apps? Let me know. I want to make a top ten list.

This week, in between my Rack time, my Security Manager Class, and my projects around the house I have been working on some Expect Scripts. So far I have been reading the following book, Exploring Expect”, by O’Reilly Media:

Anyone ever read it before and have an opinion? Anyone have other recommendations?

Many of you are aware that I am using a MAC. I’ve learned much about the MAC and have found some great tips over at EtherealMind.com.

I prefer to use the MAC for Everything! Unfortunatley there are some apps that just have to have a Windows OS. I recently came across a promotion that Crossover Office was running and grabbed it. I can run some Windows Apps with it. Its great, and it was FREE! Still other apps didn’t like Crossover office so I would run them in Parallels. With the recent edition of verison 4.0 it is AWESOME! I actually upgraded, and also threw 2 more gigs of ram in my Macbook and it doesnt even flinch when I run Vista and Ubuntu at the same time! I cant say enough good things about it.

If you dont have Parallels 4.0 I recommend you get it. Its way faster than the 3.0 verison and very User Friendly. You will have to convert any VMs you have the first time you run them, so back them up. I didn’t have any problems though.

I did have an issue with the network, but the Parallels forum quickly solved it with a single command in a terminal window and they issue has not presented itself again.

One other tip I recommend is using spaces to move between the desktops. Use Vista in full screen on one space, Ubuntu on the other and quickly switch between them. As an alternative you could run in coherence mode and just access each open app as though it were running on the MAC itself.

If anyone else is running Parallels and wants to comment on it I’d love to hear your thoughts!

I recently was invited to join Ivan Pepelnjak’s blog network on Facebook. I’ve been filtering most of my communication through there lately. My twitter post there, Youtube, Linkedin, Blog Posts, and more. I think the blog network is pretty slick so I added my blog. If you have a moment, join my blog network over on Facebook.

For those of you preparing for the SNAF exam, I would recommend the book “IPSec.” It’s an easy read, vendor neutral, and gives a great look into the workings of IPSec.

Enjoy!

Are you any good at programming? Well, check out this video with the details of the Cisco contest. There is a VMWARE platform that you can use for the development so you dont have to buy an ISR to develop your application.

You can find more details to the contest at its homepage.

Technorati Tags: Cisco, Contest, Win 100, 000

I just tested my new cable connection. It was installed while I was in Minnesota last week. All I can say is….Sweet!

I took the CCIE Wireless Beta last night. Today is the last day you can take it at the $50 beta price. I gotta say, it really kicked my butt. It was a good exam and I think it tests to a good level of knowledge.

I haven’t hear a ton of buzz about it but I assume some of you have taken it or are at least interested in it.

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Configuring EIGRP for the CCNA is easy. In fact, there are only a few commands that you need to know. You should be aware of the goal of the configuration first. Assume you are required to enable the protocol using Autonomous System 100 and that peers on interface Serial 0/0/0 should authenticate each other using MD5.

Just break it down:

Enable the EIGRP protocol:

router eigrp 100

Then define the networks to participate in EIGRP routing:

network 10.0.0.0
network 192.168.1.0

Next create the key-chain to be used for authentication in global configuration mode:

key-chain eigrpkey
key 1
key-string cisco123

Now enable the authentication process on the serial interface. Make sure this matches on both sides of the link otherwise you will not form up a neighbor:

ip authentication mode eigrp 100 md5
ip authentication key-chain eigrp 100 eigrpkey

Thats it! You are in business. To verify use the following commands:

show ip eigrp neighbors

----- look for a neighbor on the interface that you
setup authenticaiton for.

show ip route

--- look for routes marked "D"

show ip protocols

--- look for eigrp to be enabled and routing for the proper
networks