From: Scott Vermillion (scott_ccie_list@it-ag.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2007 - 22:36:29 ART
Very cool Scott! I find both your BGP and your mcast numbers interesting.
When the R&S had a much heavier emphasis on BGP (or so I understood,
anyway), a protocol that I rarely deal with in the real world, I was not
inclined to take my certification level beyond professional (I also was
unwilling to master the seemingly high number of other obsolete technologies
still being tested in the lab back when I finished the NP/DP tracks). I was
only willing to take this on when the certification looked more relevant to
what I do.
But I do encounter mcast quite a bit. Just configured a small PIM-SM
network for a client yesterday, in fact. Did you know that if a code
writer, for some unknown reason, sets the TTL to 1 coming out of the source,
you can waste some serious time chasing your tail troubleshooting your mcast
config!? LOL! (thank God for Wireshark is all I have to say)
Man, most of that is pretty humorous. Not sure how I would take the one
about how you got past the lab! Hopefully that was at least coming from
someone who did!
Thanks for sharing,
Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Scott Smith
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 5:07 PM
To: groupstudy
Subject: CCIE First Year Review
I thought I'd take a moment and do a quick review of the past year...
my first year as an IE.
- Got a promotion. Same company, different department.
- Was completely confused, for like a month, by the fact I didn't have
to study anymore... man, that was weird
- First assigned task <drum roll>... team lead enterprise QoS
development. My least favorite topic of topics... joy, joy! Wish I
could have seen the look on my face.
- Number of times I've heard "We'll you're the IE" when presented with
some off the wall question: lost count back in the spring
- Number of times I've said "I don't know everything!" in response to
the line above: lost count
- Number of times I've been asked "How did you past the lab?": ~20
- Have received zero appreciation for my lab induced creative solutions :-)
- Have received praise for suggesting what I thought was an
off-the-wall feature Cisco made me learn... go figure.
- Number of times I've had to clarify the fact that I'm an R&S IE when
presented with VoIP, security and MPLS questions and of course the
always mentioned "We'll you're the IE" statement: way too many
- Found out my non-IE co-workers like to make a big deal out of my
mistakes... after all "I'm the IE"
- Number of times I've wished Cisco had not removed ATM from the lab
(to make me learn it) : several! 95% of the connectivity I deal with
is ATM... not sure what Cisco was thinking there.
- Surprised by the number of people who are inclined to regurgitate
their resume' when they find out I'm an IE
- Biggest screw-up: Fubar'd an ATM connection to a 400+ user call
center... who knew PCR/SCR was THAT important? :-)
- Coolest new (new to me anyway) technology I've been working on... WAAS
- I've learned way more about QoS than I think I wanted to know
- Have enjoyed having access to the expertise of our Cisco AS team...
instant guru on any topic
- Number of times I've had to deal with BGP: 2
- Number of times I've had to configure multicast: 0
- Surprised by the amount of knowledge I've lost over the last year...
of course I've gained a lot of new stuff
All in all I'm having a blast and it was absolutely worth all the
blood, sweat and tears to become a CCIE:-)
Cheers!
-- Scott CCIE #17040 (R&S)
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