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CCNA And CCNP Success! Command Discussion : Dr. Strangeroute (Or, "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The ip route Command") If you have a particular command or Cisco routing / switching feature that's giving you a little trouble during your studies, don't sweat it.   Same thing happened to me when I first went after my CCNA. The ip route command used to kick my butt.  If it wasn't the almost-impossible-to-understand explanations of the syntax that were around at the time, it was the multiple choice questions with choices like the following.... ip route 0.0.0.0 10.1.1.1 ethernet0 ip route 10.1.1.1 0.0.0.0 ethernet0 ip route 0.0.0.0 ethernet0 10.1.1.1 .... followed by about five more choices that looked like those. Put six to eight choices like that next to each other, and it occurs to you that you REALLY need to master the syntax of that particular command. That's what this CCNA / CCNP Command Reference is all about. Knowing the comm

Thanks for all your shares and Google +1s for this new series!    Due to the great response, you'll now see these several times a week on the Bulldog Blog! If you missed Part 1 of this discussion, just click that link to get caught up.    CCNA And CCNP In-Depth Command Reference And Lab: show ip ospf neighbor ---  Part Two! In part 1 of this CCNA / CCNP command discussion , we tackled the Neighbor ID and Pri fields of the show ip ospf neighbor command's output (along with a review of the RID!). Today, we'll start with the State field, and a curious little symbol we saw for one of our adjacencies. Here's the network we're using for this discussion.  R3 has two adjacencies to R1 -- one via the NBMA network, and one via a point-to-point connection.  R2 isn't involved in this particular discussion. Here's the current output of show ip ospf neighbor on R3: R3#show ip ospf neighbor Neighbor ID  Pri   State  Dead Time   Address    Interfac

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