The past 7 days on Cisco Subnet: Chatting about IP routing, Cisco's new advanced design certifications

Finally, you've dug yourself out of the e-mails that accumulated while you were at Networkers! If you missed any of the past 7 days on Cisco Subnet, don't worry, here's a digest of what occured in Ciscoland while you were out firefighting.

We chatted with Jeff Doyle

Network World held its inaugural Network World Chats session and its first guest was Cisco Subnet resident IP routing expert Jeff Doyle. Read the full transcript of the hour-long session here, and check out the other chats that are being lined up in the coming weeks.

Lots of details about Cisco's plans for two advanced network design certifications

From the Field blogger Michael Morris came back from Networkers with a notebook full of notes from Cisco's private meeting with 50 CCIEs at the conference to thrash out ideas for two yet-to-be-launched high-level certifications for network designers. The practical exams for the certs will take a new form for Cisco as they will not be lab-based. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of Michael's report.

Talking of Cisco certs, Cisco rewrote 90% of the course for its Cisco Certified Design Professional certification.

Enter to win a Cisco NAC book

We launched August's book giveaway competition. Enter for a chance to win a copy of Cisco NAC Appliance: Enforcing Host Security with Clean Access, by Jamey Heary. The book isn't out until Aug. 8, so it is indeed a hot-of-the-press publication. Get a sneak peek of a chapter here. Also, follow the author, Jamey Heary's blog for Cisco Subnet here.

Cisco NAC lags competitors

A Network World Clear Choice Test of 13 network-access control products found Cisco NAC lag competitors in advanced features.

PIX bug

On Thursday, Heise Security reported that "three bug in older software versions of Cisco PIX security appliances may jointly cause emails with headers signed using Domainkeys Identified Mail (DKIM, RFC 4871) to be rejected."

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