She typed:
Priya pointed to the drive. “Keith Bogart. 2015. Still the HQ.”
She clicked the first video. Keith Bogart’s calm, granular voice filled the silence: “Welcome. Today, we’re redistributing between EIGRP and OSPF on a single HQ router. If you do this wrong… you’ll blackhole your entire Chicago office.” INE CCNP R S v2 -2015- HQ By Keith Bogart
Her boss, watching over her shoulder, whispered: “Where did you learn that?”
Then, on EIGRP: deny tags 250 .
route-map TAG_OSPF permit 10 set tag 250
Priya laughed nervously. But as she watched—frame by frame, Keith drawing route-maps on a digital whiteboard—something clicked. She wasn't just learning protocols. She was inheriting a decade of real-world mistakes and fixes. She typed: Priya pointed to the drive
In the fluorescent-lit server room of a mid-sized telecom firm, intern Priya plugged a dusty hard drive into her laptop. The label read: INE CCNP R/S v2 – 2015 – HQ By Keith Bogart .
The BGP next-hop changed. The Chicago office blinked back online. Still the HQ
That night, the live network crashed. Senior engineers were offline. Priya, heart pounding, opened a console. Route redistribution loop. She remembered Keith’s warning: “Administrative distance will betray you unless you set tags.”