From: Hank Burgos (hburgos@xxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jul 18 1999 - 13:36:28 GMT-3
My thoughts exactly!!! Although my hardware was operational, I did get the DLS
W
from hell.
Hammond wrote:
> Man, can I relate to your comment about your expectations on your first try.
> I never figured myself for average either and by the time I went to the exam
> I could do re-distribution in my sleep (as a matter of fact, I'm almost sure
> I DID do it in my sleep). I concentrated on BGP the week before so much I
> was really proud of myself. "Dude, I thought, you're there". I was so
> confident. I looked at the lab. "Hey, I thought, I know this stuff". Then
> I noticed a Token ring switch. what the *** is this? Oh well, I'll look it
> up. Let's see, in the product guide,. Whoops, no that's sales shit. damn
> where did they hide that? Oh yeah, read, read, read... ok, next. I breezed
> thru the first few scenarios. Then a serial port went south and I spent a
> lot of time convincing myself it really was broke. The proctor was pretty
> cool once I told him. Shoulda called sooner, he said. Oh yeah, They also
> happened to be the highest number interface so OSPF was pretty hosed too...
> Let see, get rid of all OSPF statements and do it in 5 minutes, I can still
> do it, I thought. I looked up and I had 1 hour to go and a BGP scenario
> from hell to do. That's pretty much when I melted.... just one more hour.
>
> That was 2 weeks ago, and I'm almost ready to try and get a lab together and
> try again. A lot of people told me that you learn a lot on the first trip
> to the lab and I thought they were just making excuses for themselves. Turns
> out I was wrong, wrong, wrong. I did learn a lot. It's doable. It can be
> beat. Hopefully, by me in a couple months.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Morris <SMorris@tele-tech.com>
> To: 'Ben Rife' <brife@bignet.net>; <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 6:54 PM
> Subject: RE: CCIE Lab
>
> >snip snip snip>
>
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