From: Thomas Larus (tlarus@xxxxxxx)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 11:45:29 GMT-3
Look at Hutnik and Saterlee's Lab Kit for more of the same kind of
mistakes. It makes me wonder how anyone passes the no-partial-credit
Lab Exam when the authors of these books have the luxury of making their
own scenarios, then (in theory) have the time to test them and have
other experts check them over, and they still make glaring errors that
go against their own instructions.
I think the catch is that they may have the time in theory, but in
practice, they are racing to meet a publication deadline. One gets the
feeling that Solie just made up the very impressive scenarios, then
waited to try them out after the book was published. There was some
talk on this list about Solie needing an ISDN simulator to do the
solutions.
Even so, the Solie book and the Hutnik and Saterlee book are extremely
instructive masterpieces. All of this is not criticism of these
magnificent books as much as it is concern about losing 15-25 points on
a lab exam for making just one of the kind of mistake that the gurus
made several times in just about every complex training lab solution in
existence (in the first release, anyway).
(I have never taken the lab, so I have no idea how much a given section
is worth. I picked 15-25 points for a mistake like using ip ospf
network XXXX out of the air. I just suspect that messing up an OSPF
section would cost a lot of points.)
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Cael Phelan
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:55 AM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Solie - Skynet Lab 1
Hi All,
In this first lab of the book 'CCIE Practical Studies', the directions
clearly
state:
'Do not use the 'ip ospf network' command when configuring OSPF'
yet the solution as provided by Cisco press uses this command
everywhere. Yes
indeed, 'ip ospf network non-broadcast' will give a hello time of 60
seconds
but without using this command, you would have to enter 'ip ospf
hello-interval 60' on the serial interface of R3 as directed and on the
other
routers R1 and R2 to peer. The 'ip ospf network' command is even used
on the
LAN interfaces according to the solution Am I missing something here
and are
the remaining four labs' solutions as bad?
Many thanks,
Carl
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