Definitions by Viiroxi

CCIE 

Short for "Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert". This was the original, and for a long time only, qualification that Cisco offered. Today it is seen as one of the highest accreditations of networking skill that there is. The CCIE exam is very hard and very few people get certified, but the salery for CCIEs is often six-figures.

Dude, you're a CCIE? *bows*

CCIE by Viiroxi March 3, 2009

EIGRP 

Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. A cisco propiatory routing protocol. Successor to IGRP

router eigrp 100 (The command (example) as entered on a cisco router)

EIGRP by Viiroxi March 2, 2009

IGRP 

Interior Gateway Routing Protocol. A popular classful Cisco-propriatory routing protocol. A good alternative to RIP.

router igrp 100 (example of the command used at a Cisco IOS prompt)

IGRP by Viiroxi March 2, 2009

OSPF 

Short for "Open Shortest Path First". It's a classless Link-state routing protocol. Probably the most popular implementation of SPF (Link-state) routing.

router ospf 1 (example of the command entered at the router prompt)

OSPF by Viiroxi March 2, 2009

CCNP 

Short for "Cisco Certified Network Professional". This is a Cisco qualification, the next level up from CCNA, and qualifies a person to configure medium-to-large size networks including MANs and WANS.

I've got my CCNA, Now I'll study for my CCNP and double my salery!

CCNP by Viiroxi March 2, 2009