CCIE
OSPF plan of attack
Read some more OSPF tonight. I’ve decided it’s going to be a LONG road to OSPF supremacy! For the written, I want to know OSPF well, but I’m not looking to learn every little detail so that I spend so much time on it I forget all of the other subjects..make sense? So here’s my [...]
EIGRP done.
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 [...]
Chapter 6: IP Forwarding
Read most of chapter 6, which is IP forwarding. It’s all review so far. I’m going to do some verification in the form of labbing some policy routing which is part of this section. I don’t use PBR often, so I won’t lie and say I’m sharp on it right now, but it’s pretty straightforward, [...]
Sleepy thoughts of CCIE motivation
I’ve gotten 2 hours of sleep in a 44 hr time period, and have a minimum of 5 hours until I can go to bed. Long story..no, it’s not by choice. I’m ready to sleep. Anyway..that’s your forewarning. I like these posts. I like writing up something that I truly believe, thinking that maybe, just [...]
IP Subnetting chapter whipped!
Finished the IP Subnetting chapter. I decided to read it from start to finish, and I pretty much did that. Good review never hurts, and thankfully I was on point with all of the exercises already, so I’ve “still got it”.. Started the IP Services chapter. It’s disappointing how short the sections are for each [...]
STP: Port ID’s..making sense of it all.
I won’t lie, when I understood the STP tiebreaker process, it was one of those “ohhhhhh” moments. And by understand, I mean, actually proved and saw it work firsthand. Here’s the deal, and I’ll explain any highlights of little things that I found may be confusing for others. First, some key notes about STP and [...]
LAN Switching: Read it, or else.
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 [...]
STP: Root port selection
While doing my reading on Spanning-tree and my INE Vol I labs, I kept referencing back to the book for the tie-breaker criteria for root port selection, and decided I’d post it. In our scenario, we have two switches, SW4, and SW1, which are directly connected with three fast ethernet links. Here’s how STP would [...]
Plan of action
Yesterday I watched one of the CoD videos from INE (EIGRP), did some EIGRP labs from Vol I (INE also), and read some OSPF. I quickly realized I needed to focus on one area at a time, not skip around anymore. That being said, I’ve developed a simple, but hopefully effective, plan of action. It [...]
IEWB Vol I/EIGRP labs
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 [...]
