Tips and suggestions on how to become a network engineer and help you jump-start your career in networking.

Are you thinking about getting a job as a Network Engineer?  Are you considering leaving your present position and getting a new networking job at a new company?  Has it been a while since you’ve interviewed for a network engineer position?  If you’ve answered yes to any of these questions …

Why is it so complex to create a good Visio diagram? Read our review of NetDepict, a software that provides a means of drawing your IT environment, inexpensively and effectively.

The Cisco ASA 5505 Firewall is the smallest model in the new 5500 Cisco series of hardware appliances. Although this model is suitable for small businesses, branch offices or even home use, its firewall security capabilities are the same as the biggest models (5510, 5520, 5540 etc). The Adaptive Security …

Cisco PIX (Private Internet eXchange) is one of the most popular IP firewalls and network address translation (NAT) appliances. The PIX is a firewall appliance based on a hardened, specially built operating system, PIX OS, minimizing possible OS-specific security holes. The PIX runs a custom-written proprietary operating system originally called …

Have you secured your router with an ACL for SNMP access but are still seeing pages of SNMP-3-AUTHFAIL messages in your logs? In this article we will be dig into this issue and find out exactly what’s going and and why an SNMP-3-AUTHFAIL message might showing up in your logs …

Don’t Drink Too Much of the Kool-Aid First let me see a show of hands of how many people know what a vendor certification is? … A vendor certification is created by a computer equipment manufacturer, like a Cisco, Juniper Networks or Microsoft to help train their minions to operate …

Cisco CCNA Training:  IP Addressing Part 1 Here’s a great video to help you get a better understanding of ip addressing.

For anyone who has ever needed to test a new network architecture, implement a new routing protocol or simply study for a Cisco exam has needed access to a real live router or a router simulator.  But buying a bunch of routers just test up an idea or for study …

MPLS in the DataCenter? According to Juniper, they say “HECK YEAH!” and I can totally see why. Most data centers have a nicely redundant, fully meshed switching architecture. Most host servers are multi-homed (or connected to two separate switches for redundancy) and the access layer switches are multi-homed to the …