From: Elliott Reyes (elliottreyes@adelphia.net)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2006 - 22:03:01 ART
Sick of all the back and forth.
Two or four doesn't make a difference. If you know your stuff you know your
stuff. Workbook Vendors, Proctor's and everyone on this list won't help you
if you don't know your stuff in the real world. If you work at a location
where you only have one or two switches in your network and don't have
experience beyond that may have problems. But if you have some background
with multiple switches then you probably know what they will throw at you
(Can we say spanning-tree features etc..) or VACL's etc...
Jeez...
Elliott
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Mark
Lasarko
Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2006 5:15 PM
To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
Subject: Studying with four or more switches
All,
I just wanted to say that the first few real labs I ever did included a
chain of five switches. I still keep a similar setup for some of my team and
desktop support staff whom are heavily involved in switching, or wish to
become so. There are no routers in this rack, just L2 toys :) It is a bit
more elaborate these days in regards to the hardware, but this is (still)
CCNA/CCNP track material here. I can't imagine a CCIE candidate who has not
spent time with 4 (or more) switches trying to break stuff???
I tried to joke a bit in response to this in a previous post, but honestly
they could throw a 5500 in the mix and I would welcome it. Why? because this
journey has as much to do with experience and being able to make sense of
what would seem otherwise...
Indeed, there are some new features on the horizon, but not many that do not
exist on the (other | additional) rack gear you'll see on lab day if you
have the basics down cold.
Furthermore, I know of at least two vendors who consistently use examples of
more than two switches, and have so for many years. It goes back to
understanding.
This may be the furthest I have ever gone out of my way to overstate the
obvious, but when conjecture, speculation, and "odds" defy the very logic we
need, it is time to go back to the basics.
R&S or S&W - does it matter which comes first?
Let us embrace this and not let it throw us for a loop.
(no pun intended)
I hope the proctors are enjoying our banter :)
Peace out y'all.
~M
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