From: Bill Wade (wwade@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 10:25:50 GMT-3
And the trouble shooting part of the lab is very different in Brussels than in
the US. They have started to incorporate this into the US labs and it certainl
y adds a new twist. It was not what I expected! Without violating the NDA; s
uffice it to say that knowing your network from the last 1.5 days is not of mu
ch help.
At 02:37 AM 5/11/00 , Dave Gahm wrote:
>I think that troubleshooting is where the depth of your real world field
>experience becomes important. If you have a logical, methodical approach you
>will do fine, and the problems will seem very easy compared to the faults
>that pop up in production networks. After all, there are only a few ways
>they can physically break your lab network, which means that most of the
>bugs will be in the configs. If you are familiar with the common show and
>debug commands the config errors shouldn't be tough. And I have to admit I
>caught a couple by just looking at the config and then working backwards to
>document symptoms. The hardest part of the troubleshooting for me was the
>pressure imposed by not knowing how many points I had to get.
>
>Dave Gahm
>CCIE # 5804
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chad Marsh <chad@wa.net>
>To: ccielab@groupstudy.com <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>Date: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 9:41 PM
>Subject: Re: Hi All
>
>
>>I have to disagree, I thought the troubleshooting section was the easiest
>>piece, with the most time to spare.
>>I found and corrected the 22-24 problems in about an hour and a half, and
>>that was with a 15 minute smoke break.
>>And you should have 3 hours, not 2.
>>On the other hand, on day 2 morning, at 11:58, I still had two tasks not
>>complete. I think I got one in correctly right under the wire, and threw a
>>SWAG at the other one. It was much more of a time crunch for me than the TS
>>section.
>>
>>Chad Marsh
>>CCIE # 5185
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: Asbjorn Hojmark <Asbjorn@Hojmark.ORG>
>>To: 'Pieter Bloem' <pbloem@fastwire.com.au>
>>Cc: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 1:40 PM
>>Subject: RE: Hi All
>>
>>
>>>
>>> > Anyone with tips on how to get through the last three hours I
>>> > would be grateful !
>>>
>>> In my experience, the setup for troubleshooting is so extremely
>>> fucked up, there's no chance you can correct all the errors in
>>> the two hours you have.
>>>
>>> I think the only way to pass is to make sure you don't lose too
>>> many points before going to troubleshooting and then settle for
>>> 15+ points.
>>>
>>> I made it to troubleshooting and actually made the highest num-
>>> ber of points of the three who did. But that wasn't enough to
>>> make up for the points I lost on the first day and a half.
>>>
>>> -A
>>> --
>>> Heroes: Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn, Leonard Kleinrock, Robert Metcalfe
>>> Links : http://www.hojmark.org/networking/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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