Over the last few days, the CCIE community has been buzzing about the dreaded open ended questions (OEQs) being removed from the R&S and Voice tracks. Unfortunately, until now there has been no “official” word — Only hearsay from a Cisco conference call on improving the CCIE program that occurred recently. Well, the wait is over. You can now point your browsers to the following links to read it for yourself. As usual, we at IPexpert are your key to the most up to date information regarding your CCIE journey! For the R&S announcement, visit this link, and for CCIE Voice track, visit this link.

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IP Event Dampening is much like it’s close relative BGP dampening. The primary difference is that with IP Event Dampening, the values you enter are defined by much shorter times …. seconds rather than minutes. Also, with IP Event Dampening, you have the option of a restart penalty so that when the router reloads it will assess a penalty to the interface.
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Today we are going to be taking a look at the real blood and guts of the spanning-tree protocol in order to better understand STP timers and convergence with respect to direct and indirect link failures. Buckle in, it should be a fun ride!!!

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Welcome back to another techtorial blog here at IPexpert! Today’s topic is coming at you all directly from this week here at IPexpert bootcamp!!! Tonight we will be discussing the often misunderstood topic of EIGRP metric and K-Values. how exactly is the metric calculated? What ARE the K values? What are they used for? Perhaps more importantly, we will discuss what K-Values are NOT as this is almost always misunderstood especially because much of the information out there is wrong.
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Welcome back everybody! In today’s tech blog we are going to dust off an old long lost friend – The frame-relay switch!!!

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