From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 18 2007 - 01:08:03 ART
I would not fall in love with any vendor's style of
how they depict the VLAN's given.
Since you never know what you may be given as (an)
exhibit(s) and you never know what may be asked later
that may not appear in the initial given exhibit(s)
anyway.
I'd almost recommend just looking at a given diagram
and then making my own table and diagrams from that.
Then, I'd read the lab tasks given and ensure that
there are no other tasks that modify, add, or remove
anything from the initial given materials and go from
there.
I recall going to my first NMC Bootcamp... and I was
used to IE's charts... kicked me into lala trying to
get used from one to the other style. Realtime.
But it made me think differently too. And Bob
Sinclair will tell you first thing... that Switch
diagram and color codes (vlan = color) real quickly...
Hard to digest at first for some like me...
Get used to seeing them anyway they can be thrown at
you and quckly get used to asking yourself what they
are doing.
Ask yourself, where's the root bridge... of each
spanning-tree instance. Is it where you want it?
Lots of stuff one needs to pay attention too and all
at the same time.
You'll get used to it after a while.
But that diagram will become as important as your L3
to some folks... especially later in the lab if/when
you find yourself troubleshooting something you
thought you resolved earlier in the morning.
--- shiran guez <shiranp3@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think the key to understand how the logical
> topology work is to know the
> Physical topology so I would draw that first, then
> if the logical topology
> is not already given to you then I would draw it to
> but I would not delay on
> that for ever.
>
> Vlan Table is also a key element as if you want to
> be quick and know
> problems before they start then you need it.
>
> Note: some time its just as easy as it look but for
> training I would
> practice worst case so in the lab I would not be
> tackled due to a hard
> looking topology.
>
>
> On 10/15/07, CCIE.LAB <ccie.lab@verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> > On doing the sample labs, what is the recommended
> approach on the CAT
> > Switching sections.
> >
> > Do I need to draw out the switch topology or is it
> just as easy as it
> > looks
> > by configuring what's in the vlan tables
> > and then configure the appropriate trunks in the
> trunk table?
> > Does the switch config come into play elsewhere in
> the lab that I should
> > draw
> > it out?
> >
> >
> > Thnks
> >
> >
>
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