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1). How Long Will Your Water Heater Last? Your Anode Rods Will Tell Us. By : John Haynes
Copyright 2006 John Haynes Description An anode rod is a rod made of "sacrificial" metal. Like batteries, the anode produces an electrochemical reaction in the tank. The anode slowly wears away instead of the lining of the tank. As long as the anode is present and functional, almost all corrosion or rusting on the tank's lining is prevented. Access To all consumers who are shopping for a new water heater, an important aspect of the new appliance is the accessibility to its anode rod.
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2). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Setup: How To Configure Reverse Telnet By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Occasionally, during your CCNA and CCNP studies, you'll run into a term that just doesn't quite make sense to you. (Okay, more than occasionally!) One such term is "reverse telnet". As a Cisco certification candidate, you know that telnet is simply a protocol that allows you to remotely connect to a networking device such as a router or switch. But.
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3). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: A Guide To Cable Types By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
When you're putting your CCNA and/or CCNP home lab together, you're not just buying routers and switches you're creating a blueprint for success. There is no better way to learn about how real Cisco routers and switches work than to work with the real thing! Of course, it's not enough to just get the routers and switches you've got to have the right cables and other devices to allow them to communicate.
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4). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Tutorial: Home Lab Assembly Case Study By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Part of your CCNA / CCNP education is deciding what network topology to use when you're putting together your home lab. Some of you are starting with one or two routers or switches, while others are starting with more. A customer recently sent me a list of his Cisco routers and switches that he has available for a home lab and asked for my help in coming up with the best way to use them.
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5). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Configuring An Access Server By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
As your CCNA / CCNP home lab expands, an access server such as the Cisco 2509 or 2511 is one of the best investments you can make. In this article, we'll look at the basic configuration for an access server and discuss how to connect to the other routers and switches in your pod through the AS. Here's part of a configuration from one of my access servers: ip host FRS 2006 100.
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6). Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: Configuring Standard Access Lists By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
Access Control Lists (ACLs) allow a router to permit or deny packets based on a variety of criteria. The ACL is configured in global mode, but is applied at the interface level. An ACL does not take effect until it is expressly applied to an interface with the ip access-group command. Packets can be filtered as they enter or exit an interface. If a packet enters or exits an interface with an ACL applied, the packet is compared against the criteria of the ACL.
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7). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Labs: Developing Troubleshooting Skills By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
CCNA / CCNP candidates are going to be drilled by Cisco when it comes to troubleshooting questions. You're going to have to be able to analyze configurations to see what the problem is (and if there is a problem in the first place), determine the meaning of different debug outputs, and show the ability not just to configure a router or switch, but troubleshoot one.
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8). 10 Fun Things You Can Do With Broadband By : Miguel Poza
So you've decidied to get yourself a cool broadband connection and are wondering what fun things you can do with it now that you are about to consign your dusty old dial up connection into the dustbin of history...here are my top ten suggestions which are not in any particular order of merit: 1. Play cool games online against other people in real time on gaming websites.
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9). CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Assembling Your Cisco Home Lab By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
A CCNA or CCNP candidate who wants to be totally prepared for their exams is going to put together a home lab to practice on. With used Cisco routers and switches more affordable and plentiful then ever before, there's really no excuse to not have one! With the many different models available, there is some understandable confusion among future CCNAs and CCNPs about which routers to buy and which ones to avoid.
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10). Cisco CCNA Exam Tutorial: A Guide To RAM, ROM, NVRAM, and Flash By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
CCNA exam success depends on knowing the details, and nowhere is this more true than knowing the various components of a Cisco router. This is also where you can quickly start drowning in acronyms! The terms "RAM" and "ROM" probably aren't new to you, but keeping up with "what goes where" with RAM, ROM, NVRAM, and Flash Memory can be quite a challenge! In this tutorial, we'll take a look at all four of these components and their contents.
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11). Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: Access List Details You Must Know! By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
To pass the CCNA exam, you have to be able to write and troubleshoot access lists. As you climb the ladder toward the CCNP and CCIE, you'll see more and more uses for ACLs. Therefore, you had better know the basics! The use of "host" and "any" confuses some newcomers to ACLs, so let's take a look at that first. It is acceptable to configure a wildcard mask of all ones or all zeroes.
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12). Cisco CCNA / CCNP Home Lab Tutorial: Cabling Your Access Server By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
A Cisco home lab is an invaluable study tool when you're preparing for CCNA and CCNP exam success. Once you've gotten a couple of routers and switches, you'll quickly get tired of moving that blue console cable every time you want to configure a different device. The solution to this problem is purchasing and configuring an access server (AS). For those of you new to access servers, note that these are not white boxes running Microsoft operating systems.
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13). Cisco CCNA Certification Exam Tutorial: ISDN Details You Must Know By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
CCNA exam success depends partially on knowing the details of ISDN, and there are plenty of them! To help you review for your CCNA exam, here are a few ISDN details that you must know on exam day. (They help in the real world, too � and there are still plenty of ISDN networks out there! The Cisco-proprietary version of HDLC is the default encapsulation type for serial and ISDN interfaces.
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14). Where To Find Great Broadband Quality Music Videos & Internet Radio Stations For Free By : Jose Miguel Poza
So you are thinking of getting yourself a broadband connection or already have one and now want to find some cool free music videos and internet radio stations which are available at broadband quality for you to get the most out of your fat broadband pipe. Well a great place to start looking for quality music videos is Lycos Free Music Videos which is at http://entertainment.
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15). Cisco Certification: The Importance Of Building Your Own Practice Lab By : Chris Bryant
CCNA and CCNP candidates often hear that they need hands-on experience to excel on the exams. Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933, tells you why and how to get started building your own home lab.
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16). Ford F-150 FX2: A Hot Pick-Up Truck! By : Matthew C. Keegan
Sometimes automakers really do listen to consumers. In the case of Ford, particularly with its crowd pleasing F-150 pick-up truck, Ford not only is listening, but delivering. What am I talking about? A hot-rod pick-up truck, that�s what. That�s right, Ford is going ahead with plans to market a truly �boss� version of its perennially best selling truck, the F-150, to give many fans just what they have wanted.
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17). Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Static VLANs By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
BCMSN exam success and earning your CCNP certification requires you to add to your knowledge of VLAN configuration. When you studied for your CCNA exam, you learned how to place ports into a VLAN and what the purpose of VLANs was, but you may not be aware that there are two types of VLAN membership. To pass the BCMSN exam, you must know the details of both types.
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18). Cisco CCNP / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Switches, QoS, And Cisco's Networking Model By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
QoS is a big topic on your BCMSN and CCNP exams, and for good reason. As more and more traffic flows through today's networks, accurately applying QoS to both your routers and switches becomes more important. Note the phrase "accurately applying". You must have a plan in place before you start configuring QoS on your switches, and to create such a plan you should use Cisco's Three-layer Hierarchical Model.
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19). How To Choose The Right Small Business Billing Software By : Josh Bender
If you own or manage a small business, you know how much time can be spent chasing down paper invoices, purchase orders and sales reports. It can be a real nightmare! That is where billing software comes in. It allows you to record all your customers, sales, invoices, inventory, suppliers (and more) in a PC-based system that is easy to use. Deciding that you need to invest in good quality billing software is not hard.
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20). What Is Wifi , What Are Wifi Hotspots & What Can They Do For Me? By : Miguel Poza
Wifi is an internet technology which allows you to access the internet within a local area without the need to physically connect your computer to a computer network, instead a wireless broadband signal is sent around the local area allowing computer users to connect to the internet in that area wirelessly.
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21). Selecting Your Tonneau Truck Cover By : Matthew C. Keegan
You�ve seen them on pick up trucks everywhere: specially designed truck covers that are all the rage. In times past sporting a custom fitted cap over your truck�s bed was where it was the thing to do. Today, a truck tonneau cover is the way to go for many truck owners. The choices of covers are varied, the retailers who sell them are many. Selecting your tonneau truck cover isn�t rocket science but it pays to �go with what you know� when selecting yours.
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22). Computer Certification: Become A Utility Player By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
In baseball, a "utility player" is one who plays more than one position. These players are usually backups, but they have a job in the major leagues because of their value to the team; since they can play more than one position, they have that much more value to their employer. Too often in IT, workers become either LAN or WAN engineers, knowing little if anything about the other side.
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23). Cisco CCNP Certification / BCMSN Exam Tutorial: Writing QoS Policy By : Chris Bryant, CCIE #12933
QoS - Quality of Service - is a huge topic on both the BCMSN exam and real-world networks. QoS is so big today that Cisco's created separate specialist certifications that cover nothing but QoS! It can be an overwhelming topic at first, but master the fundamentals and you're on your way to exam and job success. If you work with QoS at any level - and sooner or later, you will - you've got to know how to write and apply QoS policies.
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24). The Birth of Internet Access By : Joseph Muhvic
Isn�t it interesting how we always seem to take for granted some of the most significant technological breakthroughs that have helped propel our society into the 21st century? Internet access is one such technology that has changed the way we work, live, and play. The Internet has become such a necessity in most of our daily lives that we hardly even give its significance a second thought.
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25). Benefits Of Remoteaccess Software By : Robert Michael
No matter whether you are a student, homemaker, scientist, businessman, or other, it is more than likely that you need access to your computer at all times, regardless of where you are in the world. Because of this need, remoteaccess software was created that allows individuals to access their computer from another computer anywhere in the world that has an Internet connection.
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