From: B. Keith Montgomery (bkmonty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jun 16 2002 - 11:10:32 GMT-3
Nick,
Hi, I sat the Cyscoexpert CCIE course and you are right! Just when you
think you are doing great,
BAM, BAM, HEAR COMES THE JAM!
(and if you do any more of their labs, this is a phrase you will get very
familiar with!)
The fellows name who wrote this lab is Brian McGahan, and on the surface is
a young, super smart, Master Instructor! However, when designing / creating
these labs does a Jeckle & Hyde thing and turns into the sinister Dr. EVIL -
CCIE 8593, someone who likes to make grown men and women cry!
{ just kidding - ;-) }
Seriously, go and try CyscoExpert's LAB 3 and you will see what I mean!
Good Luck!
-Keith Montgomery
CCIE 8961
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nick Shah" <nshah@connect.com.au>
To: <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
Sent: Sunday, June 16, 2002 7:25 AM
Subject: Cyscoexpert Sample Lab - unofficial review
> Guys,
>
> I did the cyscoexpert labs today , and I must say O Boy !! what a lab ?
Its
> really a challenging one, one that resembles the ASET labs that I have
> done(someone told me that ASET labs are ex-labs), simple worded, yet carry
> so much depth. One must congratulate cyscoexpert on doing a splendid job.
> The way we are taught by CCIE's to read the lab(to get an idea), the lab
on
> first read seems cakewalk.
>
> But the mystery soon starts unfolding. If you are not careful, it can
wreak
> havoc :) in few parts of the network. The fact that so many *landmines*
can
> be bundled into a 5-6 router lab (there is no switch, no isdn, no atm, no
> voice) is a great job. All the *bells & whistles* that one can think of
are
> present, ospf auth, recursive tunnel loops, redistribution nightmares,
> router-id issues, bgp/ospf synch issues (I took the lab a bit further as
> well), ipx & split horizon, ipx sap filtering etc.
>
> I took about 3 hrs, doing the IGP's and I thought the other part was
simple,
> but I was mistaken . about 5hrs30min later. Then time to reboot, and after
> reboot I see the havoc, routes missing/flapping, Router-id issues and what
> not. I forgot an important lesson myself, "after starting an ospf/bgp
> process, nail the router id's, so if at a later date a higher loopback
> address is created and the router is rebooted, it doesnt screw up".
Finally
> I managed to calm the storm and got things under control about 5 mins, b4
> finish time. An independent review by a study partner claimed that *I had
> made it :)*
>
> Disclaimer : I havent taken the actual CCIE lab, so I am not sure how this
> one fares with the actual one. I havent been asked by cyscoexpert to do
this
> review. I dont know them. I dont get commission if you take their classes
:)
> (but I must say, if you take their bootcamps, ask for the guy who prepared
> this lab and take his autograph :)
>
> rgds
> Nick
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