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CCIE vs. CCDE
Tuesday, April 7th, 2009Many people have asked my opinion about CCIE vs. CCDE from time to time. Which one is better? Should I take CCIE, or CCDE with some mid-level professional certification such as CCNP/CCIP? Which certification will give me more chance to get a job? And so on.
I don’t have CCDE yet, so my answer below can [...]
How to Become a CCIE
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009Cracking CCIE Security Lab By Himawan Nugroho, CCIE #8171 (R&S, Security) Two weeks ago I passed my CCIE Security lab. It was my 2nd attempt in Brussels.
I passed my CCIE Routing & Switching lab 5 years ago in Tokyo on 2nd attempt too. I become double CCIE in R&S and Security without taking any trainings [...]
ARP spoofing - The easy way
Thursday, February 26th, 2009…or why a shut interface is not always shut…
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) spoofing, also known as ARP poisoning or ARP Poison Routing (APR), is a technique used to attack an Ethernet wired or wireless network which may allow an attacker to sniff data frames on a local area network (LAN), modify the traffic, or stop [...]
Migrating to CCIE Security Lab Blueprint v3.0
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009In this post we will give a brief overview of the upgrade path from CCIE Security v2.0 blueprint to v3.0. First off all, let’s start with the good news to everyone who was preparing using the old blueprint: most of things you have learned are incorporated smoothly in the new blueprint. Basically, the only thing [...]
Rebooting a Router from User Mode
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009I’m over in London this week for a CCIE Voice Bootcamp and a support engineer IMs me asking a question. He needed to remotely reload a backbone router for a new rack but for some reason the standard enable password we use for the backbone routers wasn’t working. I asked him if he could just [...]