For those of you moving your Cisco equipment out of the country, you will most likely need to follow the link below: http://tools.cisco.com/legal/export/pepd/Search.do Many Cisco products are subject to export restrictions under U.S. law because they include encryption. A branch of the U.S. Department of Commerce known as the Bureau of Industry and Security regulates exports [...]

Thank goodness Cisco removed this. Now we can concentrate on just the troubleshooting section and lab. https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/docs/DOC-6484

Spanning-Tree Protocol 1.3 Changing the spanning-tree root: SW1: spanning-tree vlan 258 root primary SW3: spanning-tree vlan 258 root secondary Changing the path of VLAN 258 traffic: SW2: int range fa1/7 – 9 spanning-tree vlan 258 cost 100 Cost is domain wide.  It is used to redirect traffic to where we want to go.  In this [...]

If you need to find the Country of Origin for your Cisco products, here’s the link to Cisco’s website where you can query all your Serial Numbers and get the COO: http://tools.cisco.com/FinAdm/GCTA/servlet/ControllerServlet?action=QueryForm As you will see you have other options beside your serial numbers. This is a great tool when you need to deliver your [...]

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