CCIE Candidate

Hey *, Keith here.  Long time no type.  Anyway I’ve been meaning to write this up here since it’s good information to have, and with Ethan’s post regarding 10G ethernet this seems like the perfect time to get off my duff and do so.
Working at MySpace means tons of high-speed links everywhere.  Typically we’ll have [...]

One of my current projects is to build out a 10G network to support server consolidation we’re doing. How did this come about? Well, for a long time, we were corporately going the route of isolating specific services to specific servers, growing these little pizza box 1U servers everywhere. All of a [...]

Fourtune 500 Company located in Atlanta, GA
*the position will be a contract (3 mo.) to hire

Must Haves:
CCIE Certified in both Written and Lab tests
Must be able to provide proof of Certification with their CCIE number
–experience as a Sr. Network Architect/Engineer
–5+ years in an enterprise level, network environment
–heavy Cisco design [...]

So now and then I see the question popping up about which R&S Lab workbook is the best.  I will ask a different question: Is there a way to objectively measure an R&S Lab workbook? 
You have probably read this again and again; it is all about the technologies! So, one of the most important workbook would [...]

To the uninitiated, the CCIE lab exam might seem like any other test.  Oh, sure…it’s harder, there’s a lot to it compared to the average test.  You have to study a long time and all that, but in the end, it’s just a test, right?  That’s what people who haven’t been there seem to think.  [...]

While reviewing IEWB VOL 1 VER 5 labs, I discovered a new feature: EIGRP Stub with Leak Map. I spent some time researching the topic and found out a variation of the feature which is not explored in the workbook.
Here I’ll try to demonstrate EIGRP stub routing with leak map as well as what [...]

A lot of people work differently, and when it comes to preparing for CCIE lab everyone has a different strategy.
Me, I am more of a reader than a handyman :) that is to say, I spend most of the time reading and far less time labbing. Even in the time I lab, I spend most of [...]

I encourage you to swing by these CCIE candidate’s blogs I’ve newly linked to.

Andy Lee - http://blog.netengineer.org/
David Sudjiman - http://www.davidsudjiman.info/
Dreaming - http://cciedownunder.blogspot.com/

If you are actively blogging about your CCIE journey, let me know if you’d like a link.

It’s interesting to watch the CCIE training business these days.  InternetworkExpert adds Scott Morris to their roster.  IPExpert gets together with Narbik Kocharians for some sort of mutually beneficial arrangement.  InternetworkExpert has added a new CCIE community site, because apparently we needed Yet Another Forum.  Of course, Cisco has started their own “learning community” targeted [...]

Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding is a small security feature

When configured on an interface, the router checks the incoming packet’s source address with its routing table. If the incoming packet’s source is reachable via the same interface it was received, the packet is allowed. URPF provides protection again spoofed packets with unverifiable source.
Though basically a single [...]

Bridging is an obscure topic in CCIE R&S study.
It can be divided in three types
1) IRB (Integrated Routing and Bridging)
2) CRB (Concurrent Routing and Bridging
3) Fall back bridging
IRB is discussed in Lab 3 of internetworkExpert labs.
Basically IRB and CRB are generally used on routers to bridging different VLAN domains. If IRB is used, we can [...]

Hello all the readers.
I am Barooq. I started preparing for CCIE back in September 2007 and also kept a blog http://ccie-chronicles.blogspot.com . I had been more of sporadic blogger, popping in with a few post over an year. Well, now my lab date is set at September 18th, and I am almost through with my preparation. I’ve started [...]

This article is by Eman Conde, of Bridge Resourcing Solutions and the CCIE Agent blog, and is published here at his request. You can participate anonymously by visiting CCIE Agent, or e-mail your responses to Eman directly if you prefer.

Summer 2008 Salary Survey
July 2008
I have on several occasions attempted to get a true international [...]

IPExpert.com released this news byte today discussing a partnership between Micronics Training and IPExpert.  Here’s an excerpt from the press release:
“In order to facilitate a candidate’s desire to study with multiple vendor-provided materials and courses, IPexpert has partnered with Micronics, Inc., a competitor in some respects. Through this arrangement, a customer is able to purchase [...]

The old domain name for this blog was “ethanbanks.net”, and lots of folks still link to that.  I will be killing that domain name in the next several hours.  E-mail to that domain will still work, but HTTP requests will not.  That means that you should update your links, blogrolls, and bookmarks to cciecandidate.com instead [...]