From: Brian Van Benschoten (vader@xxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 23:29:30 GMT-3
I've had many people ask me what I did and read to study.
The caslow book
The Halabi BGP book
The Cisco OPSF Design guide
I printed and read all of the IP and IP routing protocols section of the
CD-ROM as well as the IPX, Appletalk, and DLSW sections. Command reference
and config guides.
I had a rack of 5 routers. one was a frame switch, many V.35 cross over
cables (pacific custom cable) I used the AUX ports many times to hook them
back to back when i needed additional connections.
I used some windows 95 computers with token ring cards running NetBEUI to
practice SRB and DLSW topics
I had a PSTN phone line simulator (teltone) and (2) 14.4 modems
I rented some rack time at cciebootcamp.com for some ATM studying.
Lots and lots of reading
Close to my lab date I practiced doing labs a quickly as I could without any
notes only the CD-ROM
I never went to a boot camp, I think if I had I may have gotten by in 2
tries.
If you fail and you still think you are ready, get on the waiting list. I
took my 3rd attempt only 35 days after my second. That really helped. I
was still focused on studying and didn't forget anything.
And the help from this mailing list of course. With only about 5000 CCIEs
in the world, its hard to find peers to discuss this material with.
I don't really know what else to add. It took me 3 times to pass and 9
months of hard work.
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