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Hey folks,

I recently got my CCNA and decided to immediately pursue the CCNP.
I've read that Eve-ng is a great software tool to lab in, however this whole vmware process to use it is kind of a pain.

If I purchase a seperate harddrive and install ubuntu on it, is it as simple as installing eve-ng onto the OS and running it? Is there an optimal way to run this?

Appreciate any input.

I have been working for 3 years long as a network administrator in the local network team of a corporations headquarter.

Most things I've learned about Cisco and networking were during my 3 years old vocational training and on the-job experience. I would have an interest in CCNP ENCOR.

May I list what I've done and learned? I've troubleshooting L2 and L3 incidents Configured VLANs, SVIs, NAC/Port Security ports SNMP traps, L2/L3 trunks or Access/Trunk interfaces in enterprise or DataCenter environment.

I've created extended ACLs for different projects regarding communication between machines and servers.

I've done hardware and software lifecycles on cisco Catalyst and Nexus series switches.

Got to use on daily basis management software from Cisco like ISE, Prime Infrastructure and Calayst Center.

Like I said. Everything was learned during my vocational training and on-the job. But I want to continue to learn and my boss told me he would gladly support since he sees me motivated.

Is the CCNP a good idea?

Hello everybody,

I'm looking for some advice for a study plan and preparation for passing the ccnp encor & enarsi examinations. I don't have any prior experience in networking. I do have some experience in coding, mostly JavaScript, but I'm familiar with python as well. I recently finished Neil Anderson's complete guide to ccna on Udemy.

I'm currently attending a training program which includes the ccna and ccnp examinations in it, but it's in German, which is my second foreign language, and I find it hard to follow the instructor in German while he uses Cisco's presentations in English.

Neil Anderson's course helped me a lot during the ccna part of the training, but unfortunately I couldn't find any ccnp courses by him, and we recently started the ccnp encor segment of the training.

Anyone had a similar experience and could shed some light?

Thank you all!

Just curious what the groups thoughts are with the ENCOR practice exams through Boson. For me I think there are a lot of questions that follow the material offered from the OCG, CBT Nuggets, and other courses, but then there are a ton of a really weird questions that doesn't even seem in the realm of what's required for the ENCOR exam.

People who took the ENCOR exam and used the Boson for ENCOR prep, did you find that there were a lot of left field questions as well? Did you see those questions on the actual exam?

Thanks for your time.

i picked up the cert guides and lab manuals for CCNP v8, where can i find the files they are referencing for setting up the labs?

Hello everyone,

I need some material suggestions for CCNP ENCOR. I work in cybersecurity; Already have CCNA, not much that I do day to day at work from CCNA. Therefore, forgot a lot of it. Would you recommend studying CCNA again, either way kindly suggest some materials e.g. udemy courses, physical/ digital books, labs, prep exams etc.

Thanks

If you've taken the course and had to pay the $500 yourself would you have still taken it? Weighing the pros and cons of paying for it myself or getting my company to do it. I'm doing a free one now through Udemy but the instructor tends to jump around. I do have the OCG and plan to go over their steps in my lab for sections not covered in the Udemy course. I've been working with ISE for a year but my company doesn't come close to using it to it's full capacity. I just want to have enough resources to take this exam once and pass.

Hi all, I am working through Pluralsight ENCOR 350-401, BGP and Path Control. Im using vIOS, and dont get the same results in some situations as the lab guide.

Has anybody else experienced this: Setting up a GRE/IP Tunnel, but the tunnel interface does not show up as a connected route?

Tunnel is there, up/up .... but not in connected routes? so it isnt advertised in BGP, and I cannot ping the other side.

I've attached some screenshots. Hopefully its not just me.

cheers all!

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Hello all,

I am curious, how did you decide how deep to go into memorization for different topics. For example I'm re-writing up my infrastructure, security and architecture notes after grabbing the 31 days book to dig into those areas as I didn't do well on them on the first attempt fore example.

Amongst labing for other areas still, my issue is how to determine how deep to go into some of these topics?

I understand and know what they are conceptually, but not necessarily every little minute detail (Before, during, after attack and different flavors etc.).

Example I'm re-writing IPS right now, and I know what IPS is and how it works, but not necessarily every specific flavor, and all the different devices for Firepower etc. as an example. All the InDepth EAP types are another great example etc.

Just trying to gauge how to better understand for when I've not gone deep enough vs. too deep as that was a large part of my fail, among a few mix-ups on configuration/automation side I need to iron out.

Also any memorizing tips helped you with this side of the test, as I'm not great at memorizing so curious what has helped others. I've been doing videos and doing notecards daily and weekly labs so far for the last month prior to the test.'

As a Note, I was using Practice exams, CBT, white papers, OCG as well prior to that month as well.

Thanks!

Alot of the links for these are dead. does anyone have the full library that they would be nice enough to share with me?

Can someone please tell me the difference between:

IOS XE S
IOS XE SG
IOS XE SQ

I have been reading up on the Cisco software images, their trains and releases and trying to understand the difference and some things I have learnt but overall my brain is FRIED and I am losing the will to live trying to answer a question that SHOULD be SIMPLE!

What an absolute headache of a system, why is it with Cisco that everything makes little to NO SENSE WHAT SO EVER!!

I am trying to determine which IOS XE software to download for the 9800-L WLC and of course they have not referenced the relevant IOS XE operating system OS images under the WLC section (that would be helpful wouldn't it)

EDIT: The retards have placed the OS images under the Catalyst 9300 switch, so even though the 9800 WLC is registered with Cisco we cannot download the software images, Cisco really are a bunch of RETARDS!

Hi, i am planning to start my ccnp studies and i already have the ocg first edition. Should i also get the 2nd edition ?

Jeremy doesn’t talk about the sandbox in his initial encore videos. Makes me wonder why ?

I’ve just passed my ccna and considering studying for ccnp. Can I use the cml sandbox for the labs ? I can’t afford 200 usd for the license and I do not have a home lab.

Trying to understand the differences between all these vxlan terms. Wondering if someone could verify or correct my statement. A VNI is like a vlan in that it’s used to separate networks. We can also map vlans to VNi’s. A vtep is a vxlan tunnel endpoint that consist of two components. #1 is the vtep ip interface, from my understanding this usually a loop back address that connects to the underlay. #2 vni interface is a NVE interface we configure on the router that is tied to each vtep ip.

Hopefully that makes sense. I appreciate anyone who takes the time to read this and reply!

For anyone that's taken the exam, did the Pearson or any other practice exams prepare you for the style/depth of the questions on the real exam?

Hi im preparing for encore, and official exam guide states: 4.6 Configure and verify NETCONF and RESTCONF. Now you can program those in numerous ways, python(several libraries), postman, curl etc.. Plus YANG models are different for different hardware, it seems daunting to work on any deeper level without documentation. Did anyone encounter that on the exam? how deep do you have to prepare?

Hi! Basically I passed the SPCOR and I want to complete the CCNP SP Cert, I was thinking about getting SPRI or SPVI, any recommendations? SPVI seems to be “easier” at least in the exam topics, is that accurate?. I’m planning to buy the official Cisco training and check INE/Orhan training.

Thanks in advance

Hi, I started learning about MPLS and I have a few question regarding some of the Protocols and other things that we have to configure in order to have a MPLS L3 VPN Network:

1- Why do we need to configure an IGP protocol in this case (OSPF) on the ISP Routers (PE1,PE2,P)? I get the idea that they need to learn about each other networks in order to have reachability, but I can't really understand why do we need the OSPF on them if we have also MPLS configured on them too

2- Why do we need the iBGP configuration between the PEs routers? I understand that this iBGP configuration is what makes it possible to exchange between them VPNv4 routes and I know that a VPNv4 route is build from the Prefix + RD, but again why we need it if we have VRF + MPLS configured?

3- In case that we have behind PE2 2 CE routes (lets say CE2 & CE3) and they both have a loopback interface of 5.5.5.5/32 configured, I learned that it is needed to use VPN label (and on top of it there is Transport Label) in order that PE2 will know to who send the information, but I don't get why do we need the VPN Label, if we have VRF configured for each different CE and we have different RT information for each one of them? is it enough?

I tried to look for some answers but didn't really got any

Thanks in advance

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I have never done draining on an appliance before. There was some confusing communication, but now I know that we have another cache on the other side of our network for traffic to go to. What is the process for draining? I'm seeing all sorts of stuff online depending on the device but haven't been able to find anything specific to this.

When deploying Nodes in CML or EVE-NG (Imported the CML Images into Eve-NG) i've noticed that in the console of the individual switches the interfaces (show interface status) are always connected and up/up (as long as they're not admin down) even though nothing is connected to the interface. I feel like i didn't have this issue with my last cml/eve installation and wanted to ask if this is a known limitation of the cml images or if i've run into some kind of bug. Using CML 2.7.

Can any one suggest how can I renew my CCNP with CE path expiring in early September 2024 to have 80 CE credits. Any free courses or to enroll in CE with fees but less than CCNP exam fees

Don't shoot me but this is a simple STP question that I can't find a googled answer for..

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If that port on switch 2 is forwarding to the blocking port on switch 3, doesn't mean that traffic is just getting dropped? Or does switch 2 know the other end is blocked? That port on switch 2 is still Desginated and Forwarding...?

Hi all. I'm having trouble editing the startup config using ncclient. Here's the code:

from ncclient import manager

import xml.dom.minidom

m = manager.connect(

host='IP address',
port=830,
username='user',
password='password',
hostkey_verify=False,
device_params={'name' : 'iosxe'},
manager_params={'timeout':300}
)

netconf_hostname = """

netconf_reply = m.edit_config(target='startup', config=netconf_hostname)

print(xml.dom.minidom.parseString(netconf_reply.xml).toprettyxml())

Here's the error message I'm getting: ncclient.operations.rpc.RPCError: Unsupported capability :startup

Edit: I think I partially figured out the problem. When I type "show netconf-yang datastores," I only see the running datastore. When I enable a candidate datastore and type the show command again, it says shows both running and candidate stores. I don't get it... The capabilities shows that there's a startup datastore.