From: Gary Duncanson (gary.duncanson@avt.co.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 11 2003 - 12:35:43 GMT-3
Very true.
Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Church [mailto:ccie8776@rochester.rr.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 03:20 PM
Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Books new lab format.
Sorry to get a little off-topic, but I think Cisco is being a little too
quick at removing topics that are pertinent in networks today. Sure, the
lab is great at testing the cool new topics of today like layer 3 switching
and QOS, but there's still too many NW 3 and 4 servers out there to not know
IPX. Realistically, about 1/4 to 1/3 of corporations use NW. If only half
have migrated to 5 or 6 with IP support, that leaves a lot of IPX. And the
larger the company, the greater the chance of seeing IPX. If you work for a
reseller or as a consultant, knowing some IPX and even some AppleTalk isn't
a bad idea. Can you imagine being brought in as a consultant, only to tell
a Mac user you don't know how to get his Mac to be able to print over the
network? Sorry about the rant, but I recently had a customer plan a whole
server migration because he was told that "IPX was bad, and his network
would never perform right with it on there." This came from a CCIE who
should know better. So stop learning IPX, but do so at your own risk! Now
back to your regularly scheduled program...
Chuck Church
CCIE #8776, MCNE, MCSE
> But otherwise, the best would be "CCIE: Practical Studies" by Karl
> Solie. Unfortunately, it needs an update,
> since it still has IPX and the old Catalyst switches. But is still a
> really good book.
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