Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Password Recovery Procedures

by: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933 It might happen on your CCNA exam, it might happen on your production network - but sooner or later, you're going to have to perform password recovery on a Cisco router or switch. This involves manipulating the router's configuration register, and that is enough to make some CCNA candidates and network administrators really nervous! It's true that setting the

Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Changing Root Bridge Election Results

by: Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933 Your BCMSN and CCNP studies will include mastering the details of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). While you learned some of these details in your CCNA studies, quite a bit of it may be new to you. Before going on to the intermediate and advanced STP features, let's review the root bridge election process and learn how to change these results. Each switch will have a