I finally got to give the rack a test drive! It performed well! Anyways, I only had time to run through some EIGRP labs from IEWB Vol I. I finished about half of that section, they were pretty basic. I still tried to take my time and verify everything before testing it out, so I’d have my show commands down. Since I don’t get to work with Cisco on a daily basis, it’s really important that I get (in my opinion) more exposure to things like this than other candidates with more day-to-day experience. It’s funny that I was doing this stuff a lot only 2 yrs ago, but so much has been lost in the meantime. That being said, I feel like I’m doing well. I already can’t wait to get further into the more difficult stuff. I work tomorrow, which means I’ll be doing some more reading of TCP/IP Vol I. It’s rough, because I just received the CCIE Exam cert guide, 4th edition..and the EIGRP section there is nothing compared to TCP/IP Vol I. The OSPF section in TCP/IP Vol I is like 150+ pages! In the exam cert guide it’s a handful it seems! It’s still better to know a little more, but I do have a deadline for the written, so I’ve got to keep trucking. Anyway, tomorrow I’ll work on some more OSPF reading. I think I will probably do a flyby as far as the reading goes, that way I can deep-dive as I do my labs..it’s kind of rough to read a lot of in depth, detailed information without doing ANY hands on. At least now I can lab at home