👤Wendell Odom
🕔13:05, 3.Sep 2021
Ready to prepare some access switches to support IP phones? This latest config lab sets up the problem for that specific task. The lab shows the common access switch configuration required when you connect a switch port to a phone,
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔11:05, 3.Sep 2021
Creating a VLAN is simple: just configure the vlan number command. However, even in a small network with four switches, like the one used in this next lab, a VLAN config lab can give you a few things to think
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔09:05, 3.Sep 2021
Short and sweet – how do you create new VLANs and put a couple of ports in each? Today’s lab should be an easy and automatic process before you go take the CCNA exam, but getting one more rep in
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔21:05, 31.Aug 2021
This next lab begins with a switch that has been configured to allow Telnet + SSH, including password protection – except the fact that neither switch yet has an IP address. This lab asks you to add the IP configuration
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔17:05, 31.Aug 2021
Today’s topic: All lot of administrative settings on a switch, particularly access passwords, that you need to set up when you first install a switch. Enjoy! Config Labs: A feature in this blog to practice your configuration. Click for more
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔15:05, 31.Aug 2021
For this next lab, instead of just asking you what the IEEE auto-negotiation rules look like, the lab asks you to configure some switches in ways that affect auto-negotiation. But the lab gives you the end goal: the resulting speed
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔13:05, 31.Aug 2021
Today’s post gives you another brief config lab exercise, this time with SSH. Like the previous lab post, this one starts with a cleanly-wiped router config (except the hostname) to make that one router ready for SSH. As usual with
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔11:05, 31.Aug 2021
Today’s post takes us from a cleanly wiped router config (except hostnames), to one router being ready for Telnet support. As usual, you can do the lab on paper or in a text editor in just a few minutes, or
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔09:05, 31.Aug 2021
The CCNA certification includes many prominent features that need to be configured. VLANs. Trunking. Routing protocols. IPv4 addressing. IPv6 addressing. But there are also the occasional small topic or single command that might be forgotten. This lab examines a couple
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔17:05, 27.Aug 2021
One of the first configuration items that become second nature is the configuration of basic password settings. But it is also easy to forget about the small differences in password security configuration once you get used to configuring your own
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