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Packets Down Range #17:Cogent Wavelengths, earnings news, DDoS

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Auto mapping your Cisco Network

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Running Docker inside Cisco Catalyst 9000

https://blogs.cisco.com/networking/application-hosting-on-catalyst-9000-series-switches Catalyst 9000 series of switches, Cisco’s flagship enterprise switching portfolio delivering Intent Based Networking (IBN) runs a modern, modular and model-driven operating system stack, Cisco IOS® XE. Powered by Intel x86 CPU, Catalyst 9000 series now supports secure Docker™ container based application hosting environment, starting with the Catalyst 9300 switches. Users now have the option to either build their own apps or host any off-the-shelf apps to enable network monitoring/troubleshooting, security or IoT related outcomes.

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Globe Ed Network Fundamentals

https://www.globed.net/courses/back-to-networking-basics In this Networking Basics Workshop we will be learning the following: REFERENCE MODELSETHERNET STANDARDS AND SPECSTRANSMISSION METHODSTOPOLOGIES NETWORKING DEVICESIPV4 ADDRESSINGHEX CONVERSIONCISCO ROUTER AND SWITCH BASICCISCO ROUTER AND SWITCH CONFIGURATIONLAYER 2 SWITCHING  LAYER 3 ROUTINGLAYER 3 ROUTING USING L3 SWITCHING RECORDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP WILL BE SENT TO ALL THAT REGISTER – Even to those that could not attend

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Cisco Syslog severity levels

For those of you implementing Syslog triggers and such the following list will be helpful in filtering and classifying Syslog entries. 0 – Emergency 1 – Alert 2 – Critical 3 – Error 4 – Warning 5 – Notice 6 – Informational 7 – Debug

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Learning, Certifications and the WISP

One of the most asked questions which come up in the xISP world is “How do I learn this stuff?”.   Depending on who you ask this could be a lengthy answer or a simple one-sentence answer.  Before we answer the question, let’s dive into why the answer is complicated. In many enterprise environments, there is usually pretty standard deployment of networking hardware.  Typically this is from a certain vendor.  There are many factors involved. in why this is.  The first is the...

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Some Basic Cisco router terminology

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