Wireshark capture banks

Studying packet captures is one of the best methods to learn the operation of protocols in any of the 7 network layers. It doesn’t matter if they were made in wireshark, tshark, tcpdump or any other program.

Thanks to the work of very good people we do not need to create the conditions ourselves and make these captures. There are several “capture banks” available for us to enjoy and learn from:

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Angolan CCIEs: How many?

As I was writing another post I realized it’s been a while since a 2 year old could count he number of CCIEs in my country.

Jeriel Atienza and André Malungo were for a long time the only Angolan CCIEs, but today the numbers are quite different.

I do not plan to make this the Angolan version of the CCIE Hall of Fame page but you can  find below the current list of Angolan CCIEs that I could find: Continue reading

CCIE program evolution

If you are preparing yourself for the CCIE certification and haven’t passed the written yet… you better hurry up because from July 25th 2016 there will be new content.

The networking world is changing and concepts like SDN, NFV, API’s, virtualization, DevOps and network programmability taking more and more space every day.

As a consequence of this change, Cisco announced end of last year the introduction of new content for all written CCIE exams.

The new content is called Evolving Technologies and has topics like: Continue reading