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STP: Root Bridge

Root Bridge Election Results What command can I use right now assuming both of these are Cisco switches to see what ports are

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Spanning Tree Protocol (STP): The Beginning

Whether we’re layer 2 or Layer 3 and (that’s core switching at Layer 2 & routing at layer 3), we love redundancy. We’ve

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LLDP

(The Link Layer Discovery Protocol) For every Cisco-proprietary protocol or service, there is an industry standard, an equivalent service that can be run

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Banners

You’re just giving someone a banner of information at a certain time when they are connecting to a router. Now we’re going to

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CDP Fundamentals

The Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) is super-helpful in the right circumstances. We’ve used it here and there to view info about directly connected

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Timestamps

To this point, I’ve disabled timestamps to make the various log messages easier to read. SO at the top of the config you

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CCENT4

Console Logging

The thing with logging is that the defaults are so good that you rarely adjust them! There are three main methods of accessing

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CCENT4

Fully Specified Static Routes

what I will do is remove the static route that we have on router 2 right now. And we want to see a

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CCENT4

Static Routes (Recursive and Directly Connected)

As we were suspecting, R2 cannot ping R4. They are on different subnets and version 6 is advanced but not that advanced! So

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CCENT3

Pinging IPv6 Addresses

We’re going to send some v6 pings from R2 to R3 over their shared subnet, then from R3 to R4 over their shared

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