Kelvin Tran

Still hunting for a CBT Nuggets ribbon? 👀 Now’s your last shot! Meet us at the Cisco Live sign today at 11 and snag some swag. #CiscoLive

@GKavelines @CBTNuggets @Follow_Lalo Heck yeah! Sorry I didn’t get as much time to talk to you as I would’ve liked - if we see each other again this week, I’d love to chat some more!

What an honor it was to kick it & meet up with my friends from @CBTNuggets y’all are the best!! @kelvintechie @Follow_Lalo 🤘🏾🎉 ❤️💛#TH570 #AQCrew #CiscoInsiderInSanDiego #CiscoChampion #CiscoLive

Great seeing ya @NetworkChuck! Hopefully we’ll meet again sometime this week!

@CBTNuggets @KeithBarkerCCIE @KishSquared @Follow_Lalo Can’t wait to see everyone there! First Cisco Live, so don’t mind me if I accidentally trip on the power cord

Countdown’s on. Cisco Live is headed to San Diego — and so are we. @KeithBarkerCCIE, @KishSquared, @Follow_Lalo, and @kelvintechie will be there to talk exams, Cisco tech, and what’s next in IT. bit.ly/3SDVtE8 #CiscoLive

@han_mags Glad you enjoyed it!

Great article on VASI by @kelvintechie He’s explained it in a fun, easy to understand way with detailed examples. (Thanks Kelvin!) blamethe.network/posts/demystif…

@Jaddyy Congratulations!!

Guess who’s now JNCIA certified 🎉

@andylapteff To add on all of the responses here, fun fact - you can basically neuter the native vlan by doing vlan dot1q tag native. The native VLAN will still technically exist on your trunks but it’s a bit of a moot point since it’ll be tagged

Can someone help me understand why we need a native vlan? My understanding is, the native vlan exists to transport untagged frames (frames without an assigned vlan). Isn’t everything at layer 2 assigned a vlan? What untagged traffic is the native vlan helping us transport?

@andylapteff @LearningatCisco @CiscoModelLabs @AdjacentNode Right click on the nodes, there’s an add link option

@LearningatCisco @CiscoModelLabs @AdjacentNode Up and running. I have no idea what topology to build for ENCOR, but this is a start. Do I have to cable these up? I don't see a cabling option yet.

The beautiful people @LearningatCisco reached out and provided a trial of @CiscoModelLabs for my #CCNP studies. I love our #neteng community! Install is going well and content is coming. @AdjacentNode What are your thoughts on a 10 minute TikTok install vid? 🤣

@andylapteff @LearningatCisco @CiscoModelLabs @AdjacentNode More CML!

@Kangaruess I used to use WP, but I found that for blogging having a static site generator (e.g., Hugo, which is what I use) makes it far easier to just write content, since you can just write in MD and then push into a Git repo and have GitHub Actions regenerate the site automatically

Looking to revamp my CCIE notes/labs into a blog and possible videos. Anyone with suggestions on a blogging platform (and why, if it can fit in the character limit 😅). Looking for flexibility with what I can show/hide and move around/insert if restructuring is needed! 😃

@etherealmind Retire knowing that you’ve done a ton of great work for the technical community - thank you for being awesome. Please take care of yourself.

ANNOUNCEMENT. I'm retiring at the end of the month for health reasons. I will miss everything and thank you all for putting up with me.

@KishSquared @CBTNuggets @KeithBarkerCCIE @Follow_Lalo

@CBTNuggets @KeithBarkerCCIE @Follow_Lalo got a new tag! 😁

Who else is counting down the minutes ‘til #CiscoLive 2024?! 🔥 Watch for updates from @KishSquared, @KeithBarkerCCIE and @Collablalo — they’ll have a few fun surprises for folks attending in-person. #CBTNuggets

@CollabLalo Have fun!! 😁

Just signed up for Cisco Live in Las Vegas! Really looking forward to it. It's always a blast. 💪#CiscoLive

@ETH4N3T @JuniperCertify Keep at it! It’s a hard exam, that’s for sure. 🙂 Good luck, and congrats on your new kid!

Welp. This was an absolutely brutal exam. I did way better than my first attempt which is a massive positive! Now to have a bit of time off before baby number 2 shows her face! “Failure is part of the journey to becoming successful” I’ll get ya one day! #JNCIP

@allyncrowe @ETH4N3T @JuniperCertify Still stings eh? 🤣

@ETH4N3T @JuniperCertify I agree. It is a brutal exam! Especially if you don’t do it day in and out. You’ll get it!

@shawnp0wers I’d like to propose “canpe” as a chaotic evil way to make everyone equally mad

I speak regularly with a geographically diverse group of people. And I no longer know, “how I say” many regionally different words. “Pecan” for instance. I don’t even know how I say it anymore. I feel like that’s a good thing, if not slightly frustrating. :)

@TheSamBaldwin @KishSquared Ah, I was under the impression it was universally available across the Cat9K line. Ya learn something new every day!

@KishSquared @kelvintechie Yeah, I don't think it's available on the 9200's. It's not mentioned in the configuration guide: cisco.com/c/en/us/td/doc… Even on the 9500's it's limited to certain models: cisco.com/c/en/us/td/doc… "C9500-32C, C9500-32QC, C9500-48Y4C, and C9500-24Y4C models"

Does anyone know of an STP Bridge Assurance guide for Cat9Ks? They seem to support enabling it globally but not at the interface with "spanning-tree portfast network". So I'm scratching my head as to how to fully activate it 🤔 Just a Nexus guy trying to go back to IOS-XE 😂

@KishSquared @Kangaruess @CBTNuggets @KeithBarkerCCIE @Data_Knox *takes notes* ping @KishSquared for anything SDA related. Got it ✍️

@Kangaruess @CBTNuggets @KeithBarkerCCIE @Data_Knox Oh no, who thought up that answer choice 😂 Those are some crazy notes! Glad the course was beneficial 🥳

Powered through the SDA course on @CBTNuggets by @KishSquared @KeithBarkerCCIE @Data_Knox and in a week. 12/10 would recommend. My favorite question on the mini quizzes by far...Who should always be consulted😂There is one clear answer✅-Also peep the notes 👀 #ccie #study #lab

tfw you forgot you scheduled 3 VMware exams for the same day months ago and that day came...and you're too lazy to reschedule on the bright side I passed the two so far (NSX & vSphere) so there's that. let's see how I fare with the Aria exam tonight