Excited and very interesting topic to start !! Finally the day come which i planned to start my CCIE Data Center Version 2 studies which will be a bit different approach then what i have done with my other CCIE’s. This will be tough and enjoyable journey. I will schedule my plans according the method which i followed with other […]

Hey Folks, After a while having fun passing CCIE SECURITY a break and here i come with a new concept which might be a good case to discuss and implement, we have many scenarios already setup for Active/Standby or Active/Active for Cisco ASA Firewall, but what if we want to have both scenarios in same setup.. Here in this lab i […]

Hey Folks, I remember once i read the article “Triple CCIE” and thought what? will how it feels being as Triple CCIE holder and what you need to do? let’s reach the time where the guy is feeling the same, and finally after hard working in done and achieved my CCIE in SECURITY probably the toughest in CCIE history, well […]

VPNs for CCIE Candidates ?? A much needed topic when i was doing my practice and studies for CCIE RS and SEC tracks, since i am doing now my CCIE SEC preparation i would love to draft this topic in a professional and understandable manner which combines the methods and types of VPNs’ which are mostly used on IOS and […]

Security is always been my favorite subject and best track when it comes to Cisco (CCIE)… You will learn alot but things needs to be very clear and understandable, and all Security Terms are only depends on how much you learn or understand from blogs and books. Obviously there are many books which writes pages on each topics, but do […]

Training and learing new parts are always fun and when it comes to the networking. Well after doing busy projects and other works, i somehow managed to make a good schedule for my CCIE Security training, as posted before “http://zahid-stanikzai.com/ccie-sec-v4/“ the plan will be same and it will be followed accordingly. Well started first book “ Cisco ASA: All-in-One Firewall, […]

Folks, After long time, here i came back to blogging, and would like to start my preparation for CCIE Security Version 4 after i successfully passed my CCIE Service Provider back in October. During this period i start my CISSP Course, which was quite interesting at the beginning and i start the Book Written by Steven Harnandes which was CBK […]

Hey Folks, My SP lab training and preparation is going very smooth and i am almost ready to pick the date for my lab, as recently passed my written exam so need more focus on lab and preparation. I have picked the very nice technology of MPLS as my core study and willing to learn more on this and here […]

Hey Folks, Having a tough period of studies and labbing, here i come with an interesting and probably very easy lab for the CCIE SP, but it is very interesting to understand and how to prevent from such during the lab.   Here i will talk a little about MPLS Auto-Configuration with different IGP in Cisco Platform, where we will […]

 Hey Folks, Here is an interesting Link State Protocol, which is rare to be used in SMB or Small Enterprises but most of ISPs are using this protocol, since it doesn’t require any enhanced or advance design concepts, however there are some restrictions and some features associated with this protocol so let’s first see how it is different from other […]