From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Tue Aug 31 2004 - 16:03:46 GMT-3
At 9:52 AM -0700 8/31/04, Hao Zhong wrote:
>Finally, I got mine. What a journey, I have been
>working on this day and night all summer long, didn't
>get chance to have any fun. I haven't been studying so
>hard for a long long time. Now the summer is almost
>over... but hey, at least I have a number.
Congratulations!
>
>First of all I would like to thank Brian McGhan and
>Brian Dennis of Internetworkexpert. I would never
>succeed without their outstanding training class and
>mock labs.
>
>Also thanks to Bill of Racktimerentals.com for the
>wonderful rack setup and top notch service. I was
>e-mailing Bill at 3AM in the morning one time, and he
>replied within a few minutes.
>
>If you are working towards your number, my advice to
>you is never give up, and study until your eyes bleed.
>You will get there one day, and then realize it's
>worth every bit of the pain you go through. The
>feeling of getting CCIE certified is absolutely
>wonderful.
>
>I am so used to doing mock labs all the time, what am
>I gonna do now?
>
I have a suggestion, which is actually semi-serious and on which I'd
like to get group opinion. Take some mock labs that were especially
bizarre in lab-specific things like insanely complex mutual
redistribution, failure to use appropriate static and default routes,
etc., and reconfigure them as you see real-world Best Current
Practice.
In other words, forget about artificial lab constraints and see how
simple and elegant you can make the configuration. I wonder if
there's a book or forum here -- sort of 12-step recovery from the
CCIE lab.
Half smiley at best. If anyone is thinking of doing real-world ISP
routing, no smiley at all.
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