From: Colin McNamara (colin@2cups.com)
Date: Thu Aug 09 2007 - 12:02:51 ART
Judging by the quote below, you have had the catering in RTP.
"Well, don't you see it in another way that you can't really know how
bad a meal is until you taste it."
-- Colin McNamara (858)208-8105 CCIE #18233 "The difficult we do immediately, the impossible just takes a little longer"On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 13:18 +0100, Salau, Yemi wrote: > Well, don't you see it in another way that you can't really know how bad > a meal is until you taste it. > > If you want to go through the configs before starting anything concrete, > then you are equally spending time there ... If you drive along and you > get stuck somewhere, I believe you would spend less time. Eg. Wrong IP > Subnet Mask, when you're trying to ping and it didn't work, surely you > could check layer1 all the way to layer3 in just under 60secs, init? > > I'm not saying one way is better than the other, just expressing my own > view, which is at the end of the day, you will spend more time trying to > fix something you can't assertain it's broken. If you see a wrong ip > ospf network command somewhere, you don't just take it off just like > that before going through your configs, ofcourse you could read through > your tasks and then go through each line of 6 Routers and perhaps 4 > Switches ... Even before configuring FR, now, how long do you think this > will take you? Even befor starting the real thing, huh? > > Many Thanks > > Yemi Salau > > -----Original Message----- > From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of > Herbert Maosa > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 10:09 AM > To: Patrick Galligan > Cc: ccielab@groupstudy.com > Subject: Re: Why Can't I pass the first time > > Thanks all for the replies. I will certainly get the courage for those > of > you who have done it for the first time and at least believe that is can > be > done. I have started my two weeks holidauy today =), to do nothing but > patch > up the loose ends and live in PODS ! > > I am told that the start up congis are loaded with intentional errors > for > the candidate to fix ? My question is : Is this always the case ? That > is, > should I start straight away start looking for broken configs or should > I > start assuming all is okay and only troubleshoot when something does not > work ? I dont want to end up in a situation where I am wasting time > trying > to find things that are not there. > > > Herbert. > > > > On 8/9/07, Patrick Galligan <pgalligan@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On 8/9/07, Herbert Maosa <asawilunda@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Now my question is this : Is it realistic to expect to pass on the > first > > > attempt ? Or should I really walk in with my white towel already in > the > > air > > > ? > > I know a few people who passed first attempt. One of them got 100%. > > > > -- > > You can't cheat death forever, but you can make the b!stard work for > it.
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