From: Darby Weaver (darbyweaver@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Oct 25 2007 - 03:00:25 ART
Man you never give up.
I'll tell you if you don't think switching is a big
part of the lab... you've just never been, especially
lately.
And when I say big, I mean there are two words
"Routing and Switching"...
Now count the letters in each word...
That's about where the lab topic ratio falls...
At a Networkers Conference CCIE RS TechTutorial, in
2006 - I believe, one of the speakers said:
"The best tip I can give any CCIE RS Lab Candidate is
to know everything in the 3550 Switching Configuration
Guide... It's in there..."
Now... exactly what part did you miss?
Still thinking of the 1999/2000 CCIE RS Labs...
Where you might need to do create a vlan, assign a
port, create a management interface and then... maybe
some trunking, maybe an some intervlan routing, maybe
some SPAN/SPAN, maybe some other misc features?
Things have changed considerably. There are now 4
switches and 6 Routers and by device/interface count
alone, one might expect some considerable amount of
tasks with regard to either be on the switches
themselves or a task that is found in the 3550/3560
reference guides.
My advice to anyone... know your switches and
everything they are capable of and are not capable of.
Whew! Maybe you know switching to the nines and it is
not a problem for you... if that's true, why not
take the lab... if you got everything in the
3550/3560 down pat and its so easy...
(Remember, they do handle routing protocols too by the
way... - but lets not go there - since there are
potentially enough points on just pure switching
topics alone... to almost call the lab CCIE Switching
as it is...).
If it were not for the fact that switches handle
routing protocols, they can almost drop the routing
portion of the name...
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> > Dude,
> >
> > If you think Switching and Bridging are not part
> of
> > the lab, you have not been... or you slept through
> it.
>
> Uh, when did I say that switching and bridging are
> not part of the lab "at
> all"?
>
> I simply said that switching and bridging don't
> comprise VERY MUCH of the
> lab, and, more importantly, that, frankly, there
> aren't THAT MANY commands
> in switching anyway. That's because switches,
> frankly, aren't particularly
> complicated pieces of gear from a configuration
> standpoint, relative to
> routers. Most of the power of a switch rests in the
> fabric. But on the
> lab, that doesn't really matter because, unlike a
> regular
> production-network, you're not pushing a lot of
> traffic through your
> 'virtual network'. Hence, it would not be that
> difficult for an emulator to
> present a bunch of switches.
>
> Think about it. On the lab, are you even pushing
> 1Mbps of frames
> consistently through any of your switches? Heck,
> are you even pushing
> 1Kbps? I think not. So why would such switch
> behavior be so hard to
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