From: Kevin Baumgartner (kbaumgar@xxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jan 14 2001 - 18:32:20 GMT-3
Totally agree with you that the studying should not be 100% lab practice.
I know when I started to do studying BGP, I spend a few weeks just reading
Halabi's BGP book and trying to understand it. And then setup practice
labs after. I think it should be a balance with more lab practice that
book reading but understand the theory is also very important.
Kevin
>
> I'm going to respectfully disagree with some of the other responses you have
> received. 100% lab practice is NOT the way to go, IMHO
>
> You cannot expect to completely abandon the books and become expert in the
> kind of configuration issues you will face in the Lab.
>
> Let me throw out a couple of questions here, to illustrate the point.
>
> 1) What are the issues with redistribution of VLSM protocols into FLSM /
> classful protocols? What are the ways one can do so WITHOUT resorting to a
> default route, a default network, or a default gateway?
>
> 2) What are the implications of the various types of frame-relay interfaces
> and subinterfaces with regards to each of the routing protocols you can
> expect to find in the Lab? E.g. if you have the classic three router pod,
> and router_1 has a multipoint subinterface, and router_2 has a
> point-to-point subinterface, and router_3 does not use subinterfaces, what
> are the implications to each of the common routing protocols?
>
> 3) What are the implications of changing the ospf network type on an
> interface or any kind, frame-relay or otherwise? If you do so, what else
> must you change, and where?
>
>
> I just finished one of my practice labs, an ospf one, and it has left me
> considering each of these points. I spent 30 minutes troubleshooting an
> issue where one of the routers was not getting ospf routes. I had originally
> attributed the problem to the md5 authentication I had just put into the
> area. Wanna guess what the problem was? Hint - changes to ospf network
> types on a frame relay network require what other changes as well?
>
> Every individual can decide a correct ratio of lab to book time. For me that
> ration is about 75% book and 25% lab right now. I expect to increase the lab
> to book ration to about 4 to 1 by March 1, which is five weeks from my lab
> date. The last two weeks before my lab I expect to be doing 95% lab work as
> a final push preparation.
>
> But 100% lab? No way. I want to be well grounded in theory so that I can
> make adjustments based on what they throw at me. Trying to do that my lab
> alone I am convinced will leave me unprepared for those things I know Cisco
> is going to throw at me.
>
> JMHO
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Bruce Williams (TruePosition)
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:33 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: New Member
>
> I just joined the CCIE Lab list today. I am scheduled to take my lab on =
> Sept 13th and 14th in RTP, NC. Currently I am doing labs from CIMs, and =
> labs from "CCIE All in One Lab Study Guide". After I finish Internet =
> "Routing TCP/IP, I plan to read "Internet Routing Architectures", "Cisco =
> LAN Switching" and Caslow's "Bridges, Routers and Switches". By the =
> time, I finish that it will be close to my scheduled lab date and I am =
> hoping possibly to attend Mentor Technologies, "ECP1" course or do the =
> labs from CCbootcamp. How does my plan sound? Any suggestions.
>
>
> Bruce Williams
> bruce@williamsnetworking.com
>
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