http://www.cciecandidate.com A technical blog for Cisco CCIE candidates pursuing the routing & switching specialization. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:08:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Every now and then I learn something simple that's just ... rad.  That's right, I said it.  The adjective from the heady days of Corey Haims and that other Corey is worth reviving for some stuff.  Today a co-worker sent our team a simple traceroute output. cs1#traceroute mac 0015.f91c.4200 0017.08d1.4418 vlan ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=513 It's the question on the mind of every CCIE candidate:  when am I ready to take the lab?  Here are some signs you're getting close. You can do EIGRP metric computations.  With non-default K-values.  In your head. Your 5 year old knows which piece of practice gear to power cycle when you ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=512 We have a decent nation-wide backbone at work. It's touching five major cities (well, four plus Phoenix) in three time zones, and the pipes are reasonably fat. The problem is it wasn't set up correctly. In fact much about our backbone was just done ... meh. ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=511 Yeah, one post and he's changing his plan.... I really appreciate everyone's suggestions on my last post.  I guess that I should not be surprised to be changing tactics / plans so soon, but hey, things change.  It appears that based on most replies to my last entry that I need ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=510 I've added some more blogs written by CCIE candidates. The trend of sharing pain with an international audience seems to be growing. ;-) CCIE Quest Nickelby Thane Quest 4 Insomnia The Ferret's Corner Victor Osborn Swing on by and see how they are doing. Send me a message if you'd like your active ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=509 First off I'd like to thank Ethan for allowing me to blog about my CCIE lab journey on this site.  I have followed this site for the past 3-4 months and have seen great value in witnessing both he and Keith's perspective and study habits.  I passed my R&S written back ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=506 My co-worker just finished his 2nd Service Provider lab attempt (results not in yet) and IM'd me: "if i find the guys who told me sp will be easir after rs, i will f***'em up" Figured that was as good a way as any to start a post here. At any rate, my ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=508 Rumor has it that my company will be looking for a mid-level network engineer to work in our Salem, NH data center.  Salem is on the Mass border, roughly 35 minutes north of metro Boston.  If you function at a CCNP level, can communicate with other human beings, and have ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=507 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=505 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=504 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, ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=503 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=502 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=501 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=499 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=498 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. http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=496 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=495 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=494 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=490 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=489 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=488 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 ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=487 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, ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=486 When I passed my CCIE R&S Lab Exam in 2001, I remember both the jubilation and exhaustion of the moment. Also the loneliness, after all, my wife and children had been without a functional partner and father for more than year, and they were not there with me at the ... http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=484 I've opened up the comment function so that you no longer have to register & log in to comment.  Let's see how it goes.  I have a feeling I may need to ratchet down the spam filters a bit tighter. http://www.cciecandidate.com/?p=485