From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Thu Mar 06 2003 - 21:39:40 GMT-3
At 11:21 AM -0800 3/6/03, Brian Dennis wrote:
>Don't attempt the lab without knowing ISIS. You shouldn't spend as much
>time on it as OSPF but then again it shouldn't take to long to get
>pretty comfortable with ISIS.
>
>Lastly there have been lots of questions on this list lately pertaining
>to ISIS ;-)
Believe me, studying ISIS will wind up with your learning more about
OSPF, and vice versa. There's increasing functional commonality
between the two, but also things they do very, very differently to
achieve a similar service under different constraints.
>
>Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (R&S/ISP Dial/Security)
>brian@labforge.com
>http://www.labforge.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
>cannonr@attbi.com
>Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 10:51 AM
>To: ccie2be
>Cc: Group Study; kym blair
>Subject: Re: Lab core topics ?
>
>Last year at the Networkers conference, Parkhurst said not to spend more
>than a
>day or so on ISIS. That you just needed to know the basics and that
>there is a
>good chance that it won't show up on your lab. Maybe this has changed
>since
>then.
>> Yeah, Kym, I agree with you about ISIS. I also noticed that I forgot
>to
>> include DLSW in the core topics. I'm surprised nobody nailed me on
>that
>> egregious omission.
>>
>> I also agree with you on Williamson's book - I've read it more than
>once.
>> But I'm a little concerned about Inter AS multicast topics - things
>like
>> MSDP and SSM, which I learned awhile back but would need to review
>before
>> configuring them.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "kym blair" <kymblair@hotmail.com>
>> To: <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: Lab core topics ?
>>
>>
>> > Jim,
>> >
>> > I would add ISIS these days to the important non-core list.
>Although not
>> > core, I would spend significant time on Multicast (read Beau
>Williamson's
>> > book), QOS, and Voice as these are becoming heavy point items.
>Perhaps
>> more
>> > important than access-lists is prefix-lists; get good at that. An
>item
>> you
>> > probably won't see but should practice once is IPSEC.
>> >
>> > Regards, Kym
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > >From: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
>> > >Reply-To: "ccie2be" <ccie2be@nyc.rr.com>
>> > >To: "Group Study" <ccielab@groupstudy.com>
>> > >Subject: Lab core topics ?
>> > >Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:20:55 -0500
>> > >
>> > >Hi,
>> > >
>> > >A recent post here on group study said that about 60 or so percent
>of the
>> > >exam
>> > >was on "Core Topics".
>> > >
>> > >Here's what I think core topics means. Do you agree?
>> > >
>> > >Layer 2 technologies
>> > >HDLC
>> > >Frame Relay
>> > >ISDN
>> > >3550 configuration - (vlan's, trunking, etherchannel, VTP, etc)
>> > >Basic ATM
>> > >CDP
>> > >
>> > >Layer 3 technologies
>> > >RIP
>> > >Eigrp
>> > >OSPF
>> > >BGP
>> > >Redistribution, Route Maps, Summarization, Split Horizon,
>Access-Lists
>> > >
>> > >Non Core Topics
>> > >NAT
>> > >SNMP
>> > >NTP
>> > >Mobile IP and/or LAM
>> > >Multicast
>> > >QOS including, in particular, F/R traffic shaping
>> > >Voice
>> > >Everything else
>> > >
>> > >Based on this, I'm using my prep accordingly. Do you think I'm
>using my
>> > >time
>> > >wisely?
>> > >
>> > >Thanks, Jim
>> >
>> >
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