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Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by kevhat

kevhat — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:59:23 +0000

When you’ve exhausted every pen color known to man which you used to redraw your already redrawn routing topology drawings.

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by navfett

navfett — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:55:30 +0000

When you go to bed at night thinking about the last lab task you worked on, and wake up in the morning continuing on thinking about it as you head to the shower. Maybe just me.

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:22:41 +0000

Amernas - it’s intended to be a humorous article, although it does in fact have something to do with reality. If you were well into your preparations, you’d get the joke a little better. In any case, my apologies if you were expecting special insight into your readiness for the lab.

Send me an e-mail via the contact form describing your preparations thus far, and I’ll give you my 2 cents as to how ready you might be.

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by cciepursuit

cciepursuit — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:13:12 +0000

@Daniel - It is a policy routing “trick”. Brian Dennis describes how to do it in the IE Advanced Technologies class.

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by amernas

amernas — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:54:21 +0000

thats nice but nothing to do with reality!!!

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:31:07 +0000

Cciepursuit now you got me interested :). You can do that? is that by using Policy Based Routing or is it some easy command you can just type in?

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by cciepursuit

cciepursuit — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:46:14 +0000

When you stand before the Taj Mahal thinking “Yeah that’s a nice piece of engineering, but nowhere as cool as configuring devices to respond to a traceroute with their loopback 0 addresses.”

Comment on CCIE #21236 - It feels great to finally know everything by Joe A

Joe A — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:26:25 +0000

Belated congratulations Keith! Excellent write-up too, and made me laugh hehe

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by Luis Garcia

Luis Garcia — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:05:43 +0000

I’ve got one, and it keeps nailing me too…
When you go to google and you try to tab auto-completion. My life is so sad…

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by Keith Tokash

Keith Tokash — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 04:19:41 +0000

When you wake up and realize that the syntax in your BGP dream was correct.

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by stretch

stretch — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:17:27 +0000

Nice. =)

Comment on 10 Signs You’re Ready For The Lab by Gunnar

Gunnar — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 21:28:19 +0000

When you can’t get to the reuters.com website because every time you try to type routers you type routers… damn I did it again!

Comment on Learning MPLS, resisting the power of the dark side by hzdrus

hzdrus — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:00:04 +0000

Hi,

So what are the benefits you want to reap by switching to MPLS?

Comment on Ok, change? Really? Already? by Nickelby Thane

Nickelby Thane — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 04:20:00 +0000

Roger you can emulate a whole CCIE lab with just GNS3 (Internetwork Expert has Dynamips-tailored workbooks for their Vol. 2). However as in the link Carl has pointed out, it is also worth knowing that the switch module in the routers will not support Layer 3 without some intervention from the router itself (router on a stick approach). There are also a few stuff that you are not able to do.

Personally for me I am hooking up Dynamips/GNS3 to real switches (4×8-ports 3560s. Not ideal but that’s what my vendor is willing to loan me). That way you can have real layer 3 switching and at the same time offload a little CPU resources from your GNS3 topology.

Comment on Ok, change? Really? Already? by Carl Burkland

Carl Burkland — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 20:49:25 +0000

For the switching side of things I used the 16 port module for as many things as I could. (some commands are not on these switch modules obviously) Yeah a switch emulator would be great!
I don’t think it’s coming soon, though.
See the link:
http://7200emu.hacki.at/viewtopic.php?t=658&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

What I plan on doing long term, though, is acquiring a couple 3550s and 3560s to connect to the Dynamips topology. (or 1 of each depending on how I have to acquire them - the less $$ spent the better as I’m at my spending max at this point )
-Carl

Comment on 10G Ethernet - The aggregation problem by pello

pello — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:26:38 +0000

Looks like the “pause” frame which exists from the age will finally be useful

Comment on Learning MPLS, resisting the power of the dark side by Carl Burkland

Carl Burkland — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 17:41:07 +0000

Nice! Being an uncle i a pretty cool thing! Congrats and have fun.

Sounds like you’re in for some more fun learning MPLS too.

I look forward to reading about your progress.

Comment on Ok, change? Really? Already? by Roger Perkin

Roger Perkin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:23:58 +0000

You say you are using GNS3 to bring up the topologies - are you using the 16 port switch module in the routers for the switching or do you have any real switches - I have just started to build my lab but wondering if I can do it all on GNS3? Do you know if they are going to develop the switches support any time in the future ?

Keep at it - Roger

Comment on Ok, change? Really? Already? by Nickelby Thane

Nickelby Thane — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 02:54:12 +0000

*** My current study regimen consists of 2-4 hours of study each evening during the week and then 6-8 hours on each day during the weekend. I am still keeping a few days open for other activites here and there so that my wife does not divorce me. ***

This is definitely the hardest part of your preparation Carl but I am sure the missus will be happy once you get the numbers! That’s what I keep telling my wife nowadays anyway.

Comment on Beginning the journey by Ethan Banks

Ethan Banks — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 01:33:48 +0000

You’ve got an aggressive schedule planned, considering you’re also working. If you’re a fast learner, it’s possible, but I think you’ve got an uphill battle ahead of you. I really look forward to reading how you’re making out.

I would consider mixing in Narbik’s technology-focused labs with the IE dynamips labs. As others have mentioned, you might consider doing Narbik’s before doing full-scale labs. That’s your call, however you learn best. But I know for me, I wish I’d done technology-focused labs before I’d jumped into the NMC DOiT labs. My foundation would have been stronger.

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Comment on Beginning the journey by Keith Tokash

Keith Tokash — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:24:26 +0000

I don’t think IE Volume 2 is meant to teach you the fundamentals of a technology so much as get you more practice with them, deepen an already solid understanding, and get you used to combining them. I also started out with Vol2 and went back to Vol1+Narbik’s stuff. The Vol2 labs were shockingly easy after that (in comparison, they still kicked my butt). I went from a week to do a lab to finishing them within 8 hours. It took about 4 months to do Vol1+Narbik, as I didn’t cap my time in any way while exploring and understanding the technologies.

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Comment on Beginning the journey by cciejourney

cciejourney — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:21:34 +0000

The broken down labs by technology are real nice to start with. I did the same thing as starting out with Internetwork Expert’s wb II after only a few wb I labs and it was a mistake :).

You will move slow through the first full full labs either way though. It is just par for the course. Even after doing a bunch of technology focused labs it is still a bit slow.

See you at Narbik’s camp in November!

Comment on Beginning the journey by Joel Desaulniers

Joel Desaulniers — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:27:49 +0000

Good luck with your studies Carl. Your study plan looks very good. I also had a plan similar to yours to pass the R&S Lab but I focused on materials from IPExpert and IE. I think that if you stick to your schedule, 4 months should suffice to pass the exam.