Sorry for not staying on top of this thing the last few days! Work, and getting a strange stomach bug made studying difficult, and updating my blog even harder. I am still at it, I assure you all. Here’s my progress in the last few days.

• Finished IP Forwarding..straightforward
• Read Chapter 7 (EIGRP)
• Labbed INE Vol I EIGRP exercises

As for the last bullet, I didn’t really catch anything “new” to be honest with EIGRP, although I did make a mental note to review any of the little tricky parts with using prefix lists. I was able to successfully configure a few for the scenarios, as well as distribute list and various route filtering in EIGRP, but I feel like there’ s a few “gotchas” that I need to review. Not prior to the written, however.

Tomorrow I’ll begin Chapter 8, OSPF. I’ll be on OSPF most likely the next 2 weeks I think. Depends how things go, but maybe longer. Along with being a long chapter on OSPF, I need a lot of practice labbing OSPF. I’d say I’m a proficient CCNP as it goes with OSPF, but not near a CCIE candidate with it. Most likely somewhere inbetween doing the OSPF reading, I will go back and read/lab some layer 2 topics to stay fresh with those, as I have a tendency to forget all the intricacies!

Night night..it’s 4:30am, nobody can say I’m not dedicated.