Tuesday, December 28, 2010

grops: STP Loop GuardThe STP loop guard feature provides ...

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STP Loop Guard

The STP loop guard feature provides additional protection against Layer 2 forwarding


 loops (STP loops). An STP loop is created when an STP blocking port in a redundant 


topology erroneously transitions to the forwarding state. This usually happens because 


one of the ports of a physically redundant topology (not necessarily the STP blocking port) 


no longer receives STP BPDUs. In its operation, STP relies on continuous reception or 


transmission of BPDUs based on the port role. The designated port transmits BPDUs, and 


the non-designated port receives BPDUs.


When one of the ports in a physically redundant topology no longer receives BPDUs, the 


STP conceives that the topology is loop free. Eventually, the blocking port from the 


alternate or backup port becomes designated and moves to a forwarding state. This 


situation creates a loop.


The loop guard feature makes additional checks. If BPDUs are not received on a non-


designated port, and loop guard is enabled, that port is moved into the STP loop-




inconsistent blocking state, instead of the listening / learning / forwarding state. Without 


the loop guard feature, the port assumes the designated port role. The port moves to the 


STP forwarding state and creates a loop.


When the loop guard blocks an inconsistent port, this message is logged:
  • CatOS
    %SPANTREE-2-LOOPGUARDBLOCK: No BPDUs were received on port 3/2 in vlan 3. Moved to
     loop-inconsistent state.
  • Cisco IOS
    %SPANTREE-2-LOOPGUARD_BLOCK: Loop guard blocking port FastEthernet0/24 on 
    


grops: How hard is the CCIE lab, really?The lab is not ha...

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How hard is the CCIE lab, really?

The lab is not hard. I know coming from someone with my history of making a few too many trips to the lab that might be a hard statement for people to believe.


It's not "that" hard. It is "that" intimidating. If you have any doubts, it will make you soul-search, waste time validating or referencing a solution to something you already know the solution too, or just make you waste time searching for something you couldn't find or a task you could not perform if you had a week and not just a day.

It's easy to come close to pass the lab. It's a lot harder to work on your own to pass the lab in one's own fashion.

While it is true there are "labs" out there, I'd rather ask if someone gave a person a copy of any vendors lab and that person did not have the solutions guide or any assistance from the rest of our online study buddies, then how long would it take us to resolve any given lab with a score of 80% eventually providing the same expected solutions that the lab exam desingers did.

You see that is the meat of being a CCIE and passing the CCIE Lab.

The fact is different for most candidates and here are some examples:

1. I went to Networkers/Cisco Live and attended 2 techtutorials in 2009. Well aside from myself, a CCIE voice sitting next to me, and maybe 1-2 other CCIE RS Lab scarred veterans most of the people in the room could scarcely answer the majority of the questions. In the session with NMC, I don't think there was more than myself and "maybe" one other who could configure Frame Relay at all, much less on the fly and get 4-6 routers working in under 15 minutes for any protocol.

2. I went to a CCIE Beta Lab in Seattle. Of the 8 people there taking the lab, when there was an issue with Frame Relay, I was the only person who knew how to verify my Frame Relay PVCs. The only one. The other 7 would not have been able to build a core in a real lab environment, test it, and move on without looking back.

3. I've been to a lot of CCIE Bootcamps by now and first-timers (those who have not been to a bootcamp are usually left to leave the class in stun and awe... feeling terribly out of place most of the time). There are some few first-timers who actually completed entire workbooks of 1-2 vendors before coming to class - usually this means they worked through the solutions and used the solutions guides or... did not. Anyway they score in the 50-75 range usually if I had to give an average.

None of them are ready to sit the lab at that time and most are 3-6+ months or more off - easy.

4. I've also went to classes (or a class or two) where 1-2 students completed at least 1-2 workbooks mostly on their own, took their licks and bit their own pride... 2 of these people went to the CCIE Lab and passed on the first attempt. One of them could teach mostly any subject and the other blogged quite publicly about his experiences.

5. The rest of the people in the classes I observed had been to the lab 2-5 or even 6 times (most stop counting after 5 attempts it seems to me - they say... "I think I went to 4 labs" one day and then say "I went to 5 labs" when asked again or they'll just tell you they don't remember... Ouch!).

The worst part about the CCIE Labs is our own ego. That's really it. It is.

You see, we practice, we read, we blog, and we do it all over again. The truth is the people who pass the lab and do so on their own whether they do it one attempt ( by definition this should be rare... like lightening striking a person 3 times in a row in the same spot) or if they take several attempts... really know the material when they go to the lab and return victorious.

You see, to pass the CCIE Lab, and pass it on your own, without any sort of shortcut or cheat... there is no such thing as luck, only very very hard work.... these guys/gals know every cranny of the CLI for their respective track. They just do. There is no "I forgot"... It's just not in the vocabulary.

You see the people who pass the lab, either studied very hard to pass the first time. I mean to the extent they can pretty much get up and perform an impromptu lecture on any given topic.. or by the time they do pass the lab... that is exactly what a CCIE can do and is willing to do to prove and differentiate themselves from the chafe.

There may be a very few who slink by and passed without this level of knowledge but I'd have to believe that number is small, very small. Luck might be there for a few people, however, there is no such thing as luck, there is however a defined measure of skill and expertise.

This is why there is no such thing as a "Paper CCIE" and if you find one who isn't as I have described, then either that CCIE is playing dumb since you may have insulted him/her and won't play the game... or that person holds digits but is not a CCIE in the first place.

Some people pass the CCIE Lab and were not such as I decribed above. True. However, I have seen many of these folks earn the title of the CCIE and are quality engineers after the fact. I'll not divulge names to protect the innocent.

Me... I'm still a CCNP and I'm working on it. I can configure most stuff on the fly and for sure any basic config and verify it - sometimes even quickly. However, I'm still working on total mastery of the IOS and I am not sure I can beat Narbik's mastery of the CLI or have Scott Morris' glib tongue while trying to descibe every topic. I am getting closer to the prize for mostly every technology and I've offered my services as a tutor to up and coming network analysts and engineers specifically with the goal of attaining such final mastery. I'm working hard to make 2011 the year.

So is the lab hard? No, not to a properly prepared CCIE candidate who has showed up to earn the digits. Not at all.

grops: How CCNA's get hired without experience by Darby W...

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How CCNA's get hired without 

experience by Darby Weaver

1. Get experience.

- Read Cisco Books - Cisco Validated Designs, SRND, Cisco Customer Proof of Concepts, Steps to Success, and the list goes on for days.  Pick a technology, read it, create a project plan and a simple set of checklists.  Got more time, do the Visio diagrams, you can use these for templates later and always improve them as you get more experienced.  The Cisco Discovery Series for the Cisco Academy - Simply Awesome!!!  I just bought 3 sets myself.

- Join a local Cisco Study Group and Network (With Breathing People)

- Become a Subject Matter Expert on Cisco Forums (Lots to Choose From)

- Volunteer and Perform Network Related Tasks

- Offer Free Network Assessments and Advice

- Become a Speaker and Exhibit Your Hard-Earned CCNA Skills to Potential Employers

- Offer Help to Friends and other Students Seeking a CCNA - Help them study, build, and configure labs for example.

- Register with a temp agency - and mention you are a CCNA (any Cisco work WILL find you).

- Get a small lab and live the career you want to become...  I do it too.

2. Learn more.

- Learn to communicate.

- Learn how to get a job.

- Learn how to create checklists.

- Learn how to do research.

- Learn how to find things and find them fast.

- Learn how to listen.

- Learn how to attend meetings.

- Learn how to speak properly with peers.

- Learn how to make and awesome first and lasting impression.

- Learn your tools like MS Office, Visio, and Project

- Learn what is expected of a network manager.

- Learn everything else I didn't tell you and neither did your instructor.

- Learn how to use than Sniffer.

3. Apply what you learn.

- Volunteer...

- Go door to door in your neighborhood and offer to help people with their network, wireless, or modem.

- Go to your church or community centers and offer to help with their network.

- Go to local businesses and offer to be of assistance with their networks.

- Put an add in your local paper and offer to perform network related tasks for free or low cost.


4. Go and get paid...

- CCNA's might seem in abundance on the Internet however in reality they are still rather scarce. So you have to meet me half way and APPLY FOR THE JOB.

- Any CCNA worth his salt can basically go door to door and find work.

- If you can't find work at $250.00 per hour, then consider charging less, maybe the prevailing rate in your neck of the wood is $25.00 per hour or more... perhaps less.

- Hint: Most consultants need to earn at least $50.00 per hour to remain viably employed and pay their own employment taxes here in the USA.

5. If you are really having that hard of a time...  track me down... email is best but I have a phone number too...

- I offer my own consulting and guidance for free if I have the time...

- If you need my time when I don't have the time - I do charge $150.00 per hour or so...  might be the best one hour you ever bought...


FYI -

I don't make this stuff up...

When I left the military in 1994, I found a computer repair shop and I offered my services...  for FREE.  I told the guy I'd do ANYTHING to be of service - just to hang around.

Charles Thorpe was the man's name and he looked at me... cautiously and thought about it.  Then told me to come in the next day.

For three months, I ran errands, cleaned up the shop, made the coffee... ran to buy stuff, deposit money for him... literally anything he asked... I did it.

In those three months, I learned to build my very first IBM PC.  Yep... that's how it happened.  The AMD DX2-80 was quite the powerful upgrade from my IBM PS1 SX25 Consultant.

I was happy with the bargain, but I needed to go to work to earn some cash so... I did a few of my own jobs and put my shingle out at a whopping $15.00 per hour and buddy business was a booming...  I got little 50 hour projects and such and it was working out.

Charles asked me to come back and this time offered to pay me $5.00 or so per hour to hang out when I could and be the gopher again.  This time I was fixing more and more things too.  But I was still a padawa...

One day I told Charles I'd be ready in about 6 months or so. He needed an expert now! at the time.  So it was what it was...

Then one day a doctor came into the shop and needed help with his computer and really with his network.  Well Charles' business was called "Computer Depot" and not "Network Depot" and I did have some "Network Experience" from the Navy...  so the good doctor and I were speaking in Spanish and he was not happy waiting (umm... he was the doctor) and he gave me a number and invited me to help him out.

So...  Not even 6 months into the game I got my first networking gig.  I charged an outrageous $35.00 per hour and I earned over $3500.00 that month on the doctor's network - most of it in just a single week networking 7 PC's with Artisoft's Lantastic which is what I just so happened to be running at my house at the time on 6 PC's I called servers...


WoW!

So there's one of my rules put into action with awesome results... And that my friends is a very true story.


I did the paper thing and even ran fliers literally door-to-door...  and you know it worked for me...  400 clients in about 3+ years... till I went to work at City Hall in Orlando on a contract.

BTW - 100 Fliers produced about 3 clients each worth about $150.00 each on average or about 4 hours of work and I usually got them within 24 hours of the walking the fliers...

It's kind of kewl... Walk the fliers on the weekend and FEAST for the week...

That's my door-to-door success story.

I tell everyone I know that if I became unemployed in the corporate world today... I would never starve...

Mind you I was doing all this with no certs, no formal training, and only my will to work and do a better job than anyone else - my guarantee was "No Fix, No Pay" and baby... I got paid!


So... the volunteer thing.... I did that one too...

And ya know what?  If worked too... It did.

I got a call from the American Red Cross after volunteering and making a good impression of course...

They had an emergency... I now had my CCNA (actually I passed it twice as the exam changed in the 6 months period which I took it).

So I had to take a day off of work and come to the rescue... at $1,000.00 per day...

I earned $17,000.00 total for that bit.

The list goes on and on...


A CCNA is a formidable, reputable, certification and is worthy of $$$ if you can walk the walk...

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grops: How To Create A New FaceBook Community Or Group


...
: "How To Create A New FaceBook Community Or Group To start with : 1 You should have an account with facebook and in case if you don’..."

How To Create A New FaceBook Community Or Group




To start with :


1  You should have an account with facebook and in case if you don’t have one, you can get it for free from here.


2  Login to your account.


3  Before creating a group or community, check if there is any other group on the lines you want to create. To check if there is one, type in the keywords in the ‘Search’ box in the top right corner.


A list of currently active FaceBook Groups / communities will be listed. If the list contains a group or community of your choice, then go ahead and join. If you still want to create one read further.


4  Click on this link. Make sure you are logged in to your account while creating a new Group or Community.

Friday, November 26, 2010

CISCO DUMPS: ADSENSE

CISCO DUMPS: ADSENSE: "How to get your Google Adsense Account Approved Google Adsense is an application owned and run by Google Incorporated that serves randomly ..."

grops: ADSENSE

grops: ADSENSE: "How to get your Google Adsense Account Approved Google Adsense is an application owned and run by Google Incorporated that serves randomly ..."

ADSENSE

How to get your Google Adsense Account Approved

Google Adsense is an application owned and run by Google Incorporated that serves randomly generated ads to website owners to place on their websites. When visitors click on these ads the webmasters earn money from Google.



It is however very difficult for a non-US (especially Indian) blogger or webmaster to get approved into Google Adsense as its approval policies are generally very complicated and they demand a lot of requirements which would be difficult for newbies to fulfill. For example, your website/blog content must be completely new and created on your own, and not copied; your domain must be registered under your ownership for at least 6 months; your primary domain URL should not be a subdomain or contain extensions such as www.yourdomain.com/example and so forth. Not knowing these circumstances newbies submit their Adsense application which would get rejected 90% of the time.




But now there’s hope for everyone around.
Now you can easily get approved into Adsense by making use of Indyarocks.com – an Indian social networking site officially partnered with Adsense and which shares 100% of your Adsense revenue. Google ads will be displayed on your Indyorocks profile and blog. All you need to do is register (for free), fulfill their minimum criteria in order to apply for Adsense and submit your application. If their criteria are well met your application will be approved and you will get their welcome email within maximum 10-15 days (even 2-3 days in some cases).
Follow these simple steps:
1) Register at Indyarocks here:
http://www.indyarocks.com/register_step1.php
2) Make your profile look attractive. Customize it with themes, colours, your personal info, etc.
3) Now follow their minimum criteria:
a) Upload your personal display pic
b) Upload minimum 10 photos to your album
c) Write AT LEAST 2 blogs ON YOUR OWN
Remember you MUST write blogs on your own, as you do when you write a normal blog, else your approval may be rejected.
If the above 3 simple and fast steps are properly followed your Adsense application submitted through Indyarocks.com will get approved 99% of the time.
Once approved this is what your Adsense status page will look like


And remember once you get approved you can use the VERY SAME google adsense codes on your personal website or blog, and not necessarily use Indyarocks to continue using adsense thereafter.
Enjoy – and for queries feel free to comment

Sunday, November 21, 2010

ABOUT CRICKETERS

sachin tendulkar

     

Full name
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
Born
24 April 1973 (1973-04-24) (age 37)Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Nickname
The God of Cricket,[1] Little Master, Tendlya,[2] Master Blaster,[3] The Master,[4][5] The Little Champion,[6] The Great Man[7]
Height
5 ft 5 in (1.65 m)
Batting style
Right-handed
Bowling style
Role
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 187)
15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test
9 October 2010 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 74)
18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI
24 February 2010 v South Africa
ODI shirt no.
10
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1988–present
2008–present
1992
Career statistics
Competition
Matches
171
442
270
529
Runs scored
14,240
17,594
22,432
21,150
56.96
45.12
59.03
45.87
100s/50s
49/58
46/93
74/101
57/111
Top score
248*
200*
248*
200*
Balls bowled
3,994
8,020
7,359
10,196
44
154
69
201
52.25
44.26
60.73
42.01
5 wickets in innings
0
2
0
2
10 wickets in match
0
n/a
0
n/a
Best bowling
3/10
5/32
3/10
5/32
Catches/stumpings
106/–
132/–
173/–
169/–



one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and One Day International cricket He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket. Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined, he now has 95 centuries in international cricket. Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009, and has been honored with the Padma Vibhushan award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award, India's highest sporting honor. Tendulkar became the first sportsperson and the first personality without an aviation background to be awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Force. He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards

Mahendra Singh Dhoni



    
Dhoni has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian ODI side. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, Dhoni also led team India to number one position in ICC rankings in test cricket for the first time. Dhoni has also been the recipient of many awards including the ICC ODI Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this feat), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour in 2009. As of January 2010, Dhoni is the highest ranked ODI batsman on the ICC Rankings List.
                            
                      Krishnamachari Srikkanth



is a former captain of the Indian cricket team and the current chairman of the selection committee. e was gifted with good eye and super quick reflexes. Consistency was not his forte. With more technical batsman in the side during his times like Gavaskar, Vengsarkar, Mohinder Amarnath, Ravi Shastri etc, he could fancy hitting the bowlers all over. He was an integral member of the Indian squad when they won the 1983 Prudential World Cup. After retirement he took up the mantle of coaching the India 'A' team and was a quite successful stint. He has since been a broadcaster and commentator with various sports and news channels. he was appointed the Chief Selector of the Indian Cricket team

   Rahul Dravid  






one of the most experienced cricketers in the Indian national team, of which he has been a regular member since 1996. Known as the Wall due to his ability to bat for long durations. He is the second Indian batsman, after Sachin Tendulkar, and the fifth international player to have scored more than 11,000 runs in Test cricket He is the first and the only batsman to score a century in all ten Test playing nations.[6] With more than 199 catches, Dravid currently holds the world record for the highest number of catches in Test cricket.[7] Dravid has also been involved in more than 80 century partnerships with 18 different partners — a world record

                                                         
                                                         


Full name
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born
7 July 1981 (1981-07-07) (age 29)Ranchi, Bihar (now in Jharkhand), India
Nickname
Mahi
Height
5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style
Right-hand batsman
Bowling style
Right-hand medium
Role
International information
National side
Test debut (cap 251)
2 December 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last Test
9 October 2010 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 158)
23 December 2004 v Bangladesh
Last ODI
20 October 2010 v Australia
ODI shirt no.
7
Domestic team information
Years
Team
1999/00 – 2004/05
2004/05-
2008–
Career statistics
Competition
Matches
46
171
87
227
Runs scored
2,556
5,733
4,718
7,735
41.90
50.73
38.04
49.90
100s/50s
4/18
7/37
7/32
13/48
Top score
148
183*
148
183*
Balls bowled
12
12
42
39
0
1
0
2
14.00
-
18.00
5 wickets in innings
-
-
-
-
10 wickets in match
-
-
-
-
Best bowling
0/1
-
-
1/14
Catches/stumpings
119/20
170/55
227/39
237/70