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December Meeting

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Date:	Wednesday December 7, 2011

Topic:	Network Design Clinic This month we will have a special feature that we have done a couple of times before with good success. The Network Design Clinic allows for audience participation and the meeting is structured around your questions, network problems and design challenges. Our panel embodies decades of network experience spanning the gambit of network sizes and types – everything from the small-time operator up to networks that have millions of nodes. Bring your network designs or network problems and we will “whiteboard” a solution. We will have drawings for books from our sponsors at Cisco Press and from Todd Lammelle. Special prizes may be awarded for: - The biggest network disaster... that you care to reveal - The most unusual network problem - The toughest network problem you have worked on - The best design question

Speaker:	Tom Young- MetroPCS, Cisco R&S, Security and Service Provider CCIE. Tom is currently a CUG officer and has been a featured speaker at many meetings. Eric Severson- Network Specialties, Cisco CCNP/CCDP and Microsoft MCSE. Eric is an officer of the CUG and has also presented on multiple topics at our monthly meetings. Robert Davis III - Systems Engineer at Flair Data Systems. Flair Data Systems, Inc. operates as a network integration company. It provides Cisco IP telephony, network security equipment, network engineering, and carrier services. Brendon Smithson - CCIE, CCWLP, MCSE. Sr. Member of Technical Staff at MetroPCS. Dallas-based MetroPCS Communications, Inc. is a provider of wireless communications services.

Time:	6:00-6:30 PM - Pizza provided 6:30-9:00 PM - Presentations 9:00-9:30 PM - Networking with your fellow packet-heads

Place:	Cisco's Richardson Campus 2200 E President George Bush Building 6 - Larissa Conference Room Richardson, TX (214) 575-3192 Enter on the South side to sign in Google map

President's Queue

Cisco how-to guides for firewalls, IPv6, contact centers and taking that security exam

If you're ready for a technical deep dive in a book, the Cisco Networking Technology Series provides that in its collection of volumes on topics that include Cisco firewalls, Cisco Unity Connection voice-messaging platform, Cisco Contact Center, IPv6 and more. Here's a quick review of the books published in this series by Cisco Press this year.

Cisco Firewalls, by Alexandre M.S.P. Moraes. As a systems engineer for Cisco Brazil, Moraes is the guide to take the determined reader through a veritable jungle of firewall possibilities for the various Cisco ASA hardware appliances. This mammoth volume, which runs close to 900 pages, starts with a clear tutorial on security basics, ramping up to establishing VLAN groups, moving on to Virtual Routing and Forwarding and the role of the Nexus 1000v virtual switch used with VMware ESX. There's detail on access-control lists, various options for Network Address Translation, DNS, FTP and HTTP inspection, inspection of voice protocols, and IPv6 connectivity basics. The author has integrity in reporting perceived limitations in the ASA multi-functional appliances, such as not supporting multi-cast routing, while pointing to possible relief in future ASA versions.

Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise by Gary Ford, systems engineer and consultant with over a decade experience in telephony and contact center deployments. This book is about pulling together the various piece parts Cisco offers to design the Cisco Contact Center of your wildest dreams for your call-contact agents to interact with customers. But with so many possible components, you may feel at first like one of Santa's elves the night before Christmas, if the elves were system administrators.

Read the full story here.

Reprinted from Network World - By Ellen Messmer, Network World, November 16, 2011 01:18 PM ET

Certifications and Study Groups

Looking for a little more information on Cisco’s perspective of Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)?

If so, you might check out the following upcoming seminar hosted at the Richardson, TX campus.

Cisco FCoE Network Architectures and Best Practices

This event will provide and equip end users with the latest information on Cisco Data Center SAN architectures, solutions and products. Industry: Education, Energy, Finance, Government, Health Care, Large Corporations

For those of you still working with RIP, or you work with EIGRP in your work or lab environment… here’s a tip for modifying a route metric. The offset-list {access-list} {in | out} {offset} [{interface}] command adds an offset to the incoming or outgoing metric of routes learned by Routing Information Protocol (RIP) or Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP).

Here’s an example of the syntax:

R1(config)# access-list 10 permit 172.16.10.0

R1(config)# router eigrp 50

R1(config-router)# offset-list 10 in 3 Serial 0/0/0.1

Explanation: Any route updates with the prefix or 172.16.10.0 that come in Serial 0/0/0.1, add 3 to the computed Feasible Distance and Advertised Distance/Reported Distance values.

References :

Implementing Path Control Cisco Press Implementing Cisco IP Routing (ROUTE) Foundation Learning Guide, Ch. 5

EIGRP Topology, Routes, and Convergence Cisco Press CCNP Route 642-902 Official Certification Guide, Ch. 3

If you have a favorite Router, Firewall, Switch or other Cisco device configuration tip you would like to share in the next newsletter, please e-mail me to get it posted! Also, be sure to check out CiscoPress.com, as they have many new publications that you might find of interest! They might even have some “Cyber-Monday” deals still going on after this press release.

Door Prizes & Free Books

At each meeting, we give away a handful of Cisco Press books that have been donated by Cisco Press. These are typically brand new releases by leading experts in the field - thanks Jamie!

Meeting sponsors June also provide door prizes, so make sure you get your ticket and as always - you must be present to win.

Upcoming Presentations

Jan - TBD
Feb - Cisco IOS XR

Let us know what you would like to see presented at our meetings! We are always looking for good speakers. We are especially interested in entry level, intermediate level and tutorial topics. If you would like to do a presentation for the group or if you know someone that would like to do a presentation, please contact us.

Eric Severson

The Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco Users Group officers:

President & founding officer in 1996, web - Ken Cooper
Vice President & Presentations Director - Eric Severson
Education/Certifications Director - Mark W. Odette II
Marketing Director - Mark Szewczul
Technical Advisor - Tom Young
Cisco Liaison and Technical Advisor - Mark Egan

You may contact any officer at `first-initial``last-name @ cisco-users.org, ie, kcooper -or- go directly to the DFWCUG officers page.

Sponsorships

The Dallas-Fort Worth Cisco Users Group is an all volunteer group that receives its support from generous companies. We encourage our members to patronize our sponsors in order that we continue to receive contributions.

So how does your company become a sponsor of the Dallas / Fort Worth Cisco Users Group? Contact us and we'll describe the benefits of Gold, Silver and Bronze level sponsorships.

Mark Szewczul


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