From: Brian Dennis (bdennis@internetworkexpert.com)
Date: Sat Jul 10 2004 - 23:47:54 GMT-3
Peter,
You might take a look at this white paper from NMC:
http://www.netmasterclass.net/site/articles/CISCO%20IOS%20TCL%20and%20RC
MD%20testing%20and%20troubleshooting%20scripting.pdf
Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security)
bdennis@internetworkexpert.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Peter Ding
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 7:18 PM
To: 'Tom Rogers'; 'Peter van Oene'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: RE: Strategy for the LAB Day!?
Hi Tom,
I searched ping and trace script in the archives of group study and
couldn't
find it. I think I may use the wrong keyword when I searched it. If you
have
them at hand, would you share it with me please?
Thanks,
PD
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Tom
Rogers
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 11:09 AM
To: Peter van Oene; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Re: Strategy for the LAB Day!?
Hi,
This is the strategy I used on 2nd and 3rd attpemts. In the first I was
clueless. But 3rd was the charm. 1)I quickly scanned the whole lab from
a to
z in 10 min, just to get an idea. Dont try to remember everything, coz U
ll
have to read 3-4 times each question before you configure a task.
2)Draw a quick diagram and write down the each routers interface #s
their
dlci's and to what switch what interface is connected to. I got a habit
of
marking in blue and red for different swiches. This way I know fast
enough,
as to what port on what switch needs to be in right vlan.
3)Concentrate as much time as you can on layer 2 ie switching and
bridging
section.Dont panic, it takes time to do the layer 2. Those re the give
away
easy points. you cant go wrong there. If you're still having issues
there,
then your whole moral would be down. You need to boost your courage and
confidence all the time. And what an easy way to start with.
4)Now you need to read the routing part and understand the pit falls. By
reading the IGP you should be able to analyse whats the catch, and you
should be able to formulate one of the correct ways out of several.
5)Check each protocol brefore redistribution and check what breaks
after
redistribtion.
6)I would recommend to configure ISDN the order it appears on the
question.
7) 20 mins before going to lunch (People might not agree here) stop
configuring. Save and reboot all your routers and read as many questions
as
U can and understand them good. By now you should be 60% done. And go
for
lunch.
8)Eat, think and plan your move in 1/2 an hour lunch. This might now
work
for everyone, coz U might like to give yourself a break. But it worked
for
me. I came with several ideas and could not wait to get back to my desk.
9)After lunch check your routing. Hopefully reboot might come useful
here.
10)Wrap the 40% and now do your ping scripts and traceroute scripts.
I used this approach from the 2 attempt. I comleted the lab 2 hours
earlier,
but failed. And 3rd was complete 1/2 an hour after lunch with errors. I
checked 7-8 times and found mistakes in almost 1-3. When the proctor
said
times up and logoff, I still did not want to leave :-) I had saved my
configs 4 times after final check. but still wanted to save once again
when
the time was up. I could never figure out why.
Bottomline, U need to check and recheck your config and read the
questions
on every check and dont assume that you know the questions coz you have
already read it 5 times during your configuration. This part is
important.
Everyone knows the ping scripts, but if you dont know the trace one, do
a
search on gs, some one had given in detail how to find all the nets and
then
edit on a wordpad and paste on all the routers.
Basically, you ll be pasting on every router sh ip route x.x.x.x m.a.s.k
| i
not
This will tell you the missing route
Those ips can be used for ping scripts also.
Thats it folks.
Goodluck
Tom
Peter van Oene <pvo@usermail.com> wrote:
At 11:46 AM 7/9/2004, CCIE wrote:
>I will have my CCIE Lab in the next weeks. I want to know how was/is
>your strategy for the Lab Day.
>
>1. Did you read the whole Lab tasks before you begin to configure?
>
>2. How is you it with the time management?
>
>Some other tips for the Lab day??
I'd recommend getting 80 points or so ;-)
Chuck L - the long and ever winding road used to have a link to many
posts
which covered a lot of this stuff actually.
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