I finished the STP chapter in the CCIE exam cert guide, and was almost disappointed. I have a hard time believing anyone could expect to be fully prepared for the written exam after reading that chapter. I would highly recommend that anyone taking the written give a strong look at the LAN Switching book from cisco press, Chapters 6 and 7, which both cover STP and Advanced STP. This book is FANTASTIC as far as STP theory goes. Blows the others out of the water. Granted, the config examples are done in CatOS, but ignore those..use the BCMSN book for configuration, LAN Switching for theory, and the CCIE exam cert guide for review!

I knocked out chapter 6 of LAN Switching, and part of chapter 7. Once I finish Chapter 7, I’m going to read up on a lot of MSTP, and do some STP labs in the next few days. I’d say that I’ll call STP “done” in about 3-5 days, after which it’ll be onto some IP Addressing review, and then EIGRP. If I can maintain this pace, I think I might be able to bump up my written date, which would give me more time to prep for the lab. We’ll see! Stay posted, I may put some STP notes up tomorrow..