From: sabrina pittarel (sabri_esame@yahoo.com)
Date: Fri Sep 01 2006 - 21:49:47 ART
Brian,
really well said, that's what really frustrates me about the lab.
To know "PIMv2 = BSR", it's equivalent to be able to read into the test's author mind. PIM version 2 is the default protocol version and both the RP discovery protocols runs on it, so the version would be the last paramenter, in a real life scenario, that you would use to evaluate whether to run AUTO RP or BSR.
Sometime they don't want you to solve the task, they want you to know what they mean when they use a given combination of words. And from where I come from that's mind reading.
Thanks god there are group studies like this one that make you smart on those little things.
Sorry for this little vent that is not beneficial for anybody except myself.
Sabrina
----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Dennis <bdennis@internetworkexpert.com>
To: Jeff Ryan <jeffryanwn@hotmail.com>; ccielab@groupstudy.com
Sent: Friday, September 1, 2006 3:59:10 PM
Subject: RE: PIMv2
Don't try to outthink the question. PIMv2 = BSR. People who outthink questions get a lot of $1250 lunches at Cisco ;-)
The CCIE lab is one of the few places where being smart can be a liability and not an asset. This is because smart people are more likely to outthink a question, whereas "not so smart" people just answer the question in a straight forward manner because they can't outthink the question.
HTH,
Brian Dennis, CCIE #2210 (R&S/ISP-Dial/Security)
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-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Jeff Ryan
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 3:42 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: PIMv2
If PIMv2 is ever mentioned in a task, should we use BSR or auto-rp?
From the doc cd, it does reference BSR with v2. i.e. "PIM uses the BSR to discover and announce RP-set information for each group prefix to all the routers in a PIM domain. This is the same function performed by Auto-RP, but the BSR is part of the PIM Version 2 specification."
Yet if you look at using auto-rp it will automatically default to pimv2 if all of the other routers agree as such i.e. cisco routers.
Your thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Jeff
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