CCIE Candidate

The following info was gleaned from the GroupStudy.com CCIE-LAB mailing list posts I read on 12/31/2007.

How to use something other than the hostname to perform PPP CHAP authentication. This got me on IE Mock Lab #2, and cost me 8 points in the end. So it’s a topic I’m keenly interested in. [...]

Here’s my tech highlights for NetMasterClass.com DOiT Volume 2 Scenario 22. As always, I don’t blog about every single detail I could. Due to lack of time or sheer laziness, I don’t cover every topic from a scenario that I might. If you are also doing these scenarios and wish to add [...]

I completed NetMasterClass.com DOiT scenario 22 today.  This was an awesome lab.  I don’t know exactly why, but I got a lot out of this.  I felt “in the zone” all day.  The stuff I knew, I did well with.  I found some ways to save time by combining steps.  I piddled away some time [...]

There are some other things I’ve added to my daily routine to help me build knowledge.

I’ve subscribed to the Cisco NetPro Lan, Switching and Routing RSS feed. The forum doesn’t see too much traffic, but the issues presented there are the kinds of things that a CCIE candidate should know the answers to, period. [...]

I finally joined a CCIE lab mailing list. I resisted the urge for a long time, figuring it was just going to be a distraction. When I was prepping for the written exam, the CCIE forums and mailing lists were mostly a distraction. They didn’t help me learn the things I needed [...]

I said in an earlier post that ignorance was my greatest enemy.  For sure, I’m still fighting ignorance.  I don’t know every feature that I might possibly need to know…but doing all these labs has exposed me to a lot of concepts and commands. I don’t think it’s ignorance that’s hurting me right now as [...]

Continued from the previous post.

Using the “ip accounting precedence” interface command will instruct the router to increment counters in response to IP packets with precedence values.
R5#show run interf s1/0
!
interface Serial1/0
ip accounting precedence input
ip accounting precedence output
end
R5#show run interf s1/1
!
interface Serial1/1
ip accounting precedence input
ip accounting precedence output
end
!
R5#show interfaces s1/0 precedence
Serial1/0
Input
Precedence 0: 103 packets, 13818 [...]

I was originally scheduled to do NetMasterClass.com DOiT scenario 22 on Monday, but I opted to finish off scenario 21 instead.  I spent time with the family for the rest of the day, plus yesterday (of course).  I hope you all had a Merry Christmas!  I did, and I’m ready to be back at the [...]

I got through about 80% of NetMasterClass.com scenario 21 today.  That took about 7 hours.  NMC rates the lab as “difficult”, as opposed to “moderate” - the typical difficulty they give their CCIE practice scenarios.  I didn’t think it was as bad as scenario 20, which was rated as “moderate”, so who knows how hard [...]

I am beat right now - dog tired. There’s a week’s worth of mail sitting next to me. And I’m not even talking about e-mail. I have far more of that. I haven’t looked at my checking accounts in at least 2 weeks. Presumably there’s money in them. [...]

In my last post, I mentioned the following:
I should have done ISL trunks, not 802.1q, 3 points. That was an issue of nasty wording. The tasks stated “All traffic sent over these logical links should be tagged with a VLAN header”. I looked at the word “tagged”, thought immediately of dot1q, and didn’t think about [...]

I ended up with a 47, not what I was hoping for, but close to what I was expecting. I really thought I was in the 50’s, but I got dinged for some things I’m surprised by.
Here’s how the grading works for an InternetworkExpert.com mock lab. When your rack session completes, your IE [...]

I just got through an InternetworkExpert.com mock lab. First, some comments about the product.

I have no complaints thus far. I haven’t seen the score sheet yet (won’t be for up to 2 business days). I’ll add comments about that when I get it.
Signing up was easy. Buy a mock lab for [...]

I will be taking an InternetworkExpert.com CCIE mock lab tomorrow. I’ll write up my experience with the IE mock lab product when I’m done. I’ve talked to a couple people who’ve done IE mocks, and they generally had positive things to say. I’ve got the rack from 3am PST until 2 or [...]

I saw this post about messy desks on a Cisco blog. The post basically says that if you’re too neat, your obsession with perfection could lead to psychological issues. To that I say, “Nonsense.”
I am mildly obsessive-compulsive. I do things like face my cash the same way and sort it by [...]