From: Marvin Greenlee (marvingreenlee@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 16:08:39 GMT-3
One tough question is whether you want to upgrade to
12.2(23), or to 12.2(15)T11.
Sincerely,
Marvin Greenlee
--- Lee Donald <Lee.Donald@bacs.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to upgrade my equipment so I have
> everything for the lab to practice on, I wonder if
> anyone can help me with some hardware questions ?
>
> One of the things I'm stuck on is upgrading a load
> of 2610's so I can run 12.2.23 ios on them. Where
> can I find the part-numbers for the 64mb dram and
> 16mb flash for them ?
>
> Also I need to get some ATM kit for our lab, what do
> I need ?
>
> Thanks alot for any help.
>
> Lee.
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com
> [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com]On Behalf Of
> Nick Guy
> Sent: 15 March 2004 14:49
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject:
>
>
> Thanks to all of those who responded to my
> retrospectively whiny post.
> It is amazing how positive and supportive this group
> is. Back to the
> grindstone. :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nick Guy
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2004 9:54 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: Failed again.
>
>
> Hello,
> I want to start by throwing out the caveat that I
> just failed my 5th
> attempt at the lab. Just saying that makes me feel
> like a complete
> idiot but it is time to start facing the fact that I
> am not able to nail
> this exam easily. In my own defense I have to
> prepare for the lab on
> top of being a Dad and husband and running a network
> department for a
> small, sometimes struggling company. The caveat is
> there because I am
> fully aware of the fact that I could be accused of
> being
> a little bitter. I am in the state of shock one has
> after failing a lab
> and still deciding if I care enough to try it again.
> One thing I would strongly recommend against is
> spacing out attempts
> too far. Anyway it has not worked for me.
>
> Here are some of my opinions/beefs, for what they
> are worth good, bad
> and ugly
>
>
> The good,
>
> It is fair to say that the effort put into my CCIE
> prep has widened my
> knowledge to arenas that I do not encounter very
> often in a Network
> Engineering/Manager job. In some circumstances that
> additional
> knowledge has been useful for customers.
>
>
> The proctors are awesome.
>
> If I ever move to Mexico my knowledge of ISDN will
> be helpful... :-)
> (sorry, could not resist)
>
>
>
>
> The bad,
>
> For $1250 air fare and prep costs I deserve more
> than the less than
> thorough feedback I got. 15 minutes on the phone
> with a proctor would
> be invaluable.
>
> I think, and it is difficult to discuss this without
> violating NDA, it
> is wrong to develop testing to trip people up on
> obscure gotchas. It is
> lazy. Also, if Cisco is concerned about the
> Microsoftization of the
> credential this is the kind of stuff that will
> generate paper CCIE's
>
> On a similar note, while I can buy into the notion
> that to some degree
> creating networks that would never exist in the real
> world might be a
> reasonable measure of a candidate's handle on
> minutiae I fail to see how
> this prepares one for running and or designing
> networks. I reminds me
> of taking a British driving test after driving in
> the States for a
> while. I had to
> learn to drive like an amateur.
>
>
> The ugly:
>
> I am beginning to feel ripped off.
>
> When I pass the test I will ban myself from
> configuring GSR's. and
> confine myself to making little lans and data link
> switching people's
> netbios.
>
> As a group I think it is important to us all to view
> and value the test
> as an good measure of the kind of skills necessary
> to configure Cisco's
> equipment for our customers. It is I feel important
> though that as
> customers of what I am sure is one of Cisco's higher
> margin departments,
> that we apply our critical thinking skills to giving
> Cisco feedback
> about our
> experiences. I have done this using the feedback
> form already but for
> any of you that have used it, it feels about as
> interactive as the
> Internet over cable.
>
>
> It is my hope that I will lick my wounds and develop
> another strategy.
> Wanted to post this while I am still pissed off.
>
> Anyway that is my .02 please do not flame me too
> much.
>
>
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