Routing & Switching
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 [...]
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 [...]
“Final” pic..
Got the cabling done. In this picture the term server is missing since I had to return it to CiscoKits so they can send a “new” one, and therefore the Octal cabling isn’t shown, but the rack is pretty much in it’s “final” shape. It should be noted, I’ve moved things around just a little [...]
Cables, cables, and more cables
I’ve spent the last few days getting the rack all wired up and the terminal server working. It looks like I have an issue with my terminal server (2511) not working on some of my TTY lines. I have contacted CiscoKits, which is sending a return mailing address label to me, so I can ship [...]
Chapter 7: EIGRP- done!
Finished Chapter 7 on EIGRP from TCP/IP Vol I. I went back and re-read a little bit of it since by the end of it I was fuzzy on some details. Mostly things like the four components of EIGRP (Protocol-dependent modules, DUAL, Neighbor discovery/recovery, and Reliable Transport Protocol, by the way..and no, I didn’t look [...]
RIPv2/RIPng done!
I finished the chapter on RIPv2/RIPng in TCP/IP Vol I. I’m relieved that nothing came as a surprise. I did pick up a couple of minor details about RIPng that I didn’t know. I plan on labbing a little bit of RIPng sometime this week, but I’m calling it quits for today. My next chapter [...]
