Re: Redistribution Time Frame

From: ccie az (ccieaz@googlemail.com)
Date: Fri May 16 2008 - 11:00:33 ART


Thanks for your replies all this is one area i will need to keep
working at to get that time down.

Az

2008/5/15 Bill Eyer <beyer@optonline.net>:
> I think it is best to figure out what phase you are in with understanding
> redistribution. Early on the best way to do redistribution is to just do
> the redistribution without any real attempt at loop prevention, then solve
> all the loops that come up. It takes longer, but it really lets you figure
> out how the redistribution gotchas work. Later as you do more labs and get
> better, the right method for eliminating loops and including connected
> interfaces just pops right out at you, which is the stage Dale is at. The
> IE CODs are really good for this also. 20 minutes is easily doable, but
> only after practise. If you are on Lab 3 then I wouldn't worry about it
> yet.
>
> Bill
>
> Dale Kling wrote:
>>
>> I usually stay under 20 mins on redistribution with verification unless I
>> run into connectivity issues and then begin tracerouting. I think you
>> need
>> to get to a point where you can pick up a layer 3 routing prot diagram and
>> visualize where the redistribution points are and really quickly tell what
>> you need to do to stop route feedback and other distance issues you see on
>> the redistributing router. I can build a TCL script in about 3 mins from
>> scratch. I just start a notepad and manually type the IPs from routers
>> with
>> a "sh ip int brief." That's pretty much it and then paste the TCL scripts
>> into the routers. Obviously practice gets you here, I used to sweat
>> redistribution a lot in the beginning, but as anything it gets way easier
>> as
>> you do it more and more. Eventually like I said, you'll be able to just
>> look at the diagram and bang out the TAG filtering or distance commands
>> very
>> quickly to prevent the loops. Things I've used to practice are IEs COD,
>> IEs
>> 3 part BLOG on Redistribution, and just labbing it up over and over.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Dale
>>
>>
>> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 4:26 AM, Huan Pham <huan@huanlan.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> This is something I would like to know too.
>>>
>>> For me, it also takes in average 45 min-1 hour. This includes time to
>>> collect IP address, apply TCL / Macro script to verify connectivity.
>>>
>>> I know this is still longer than it should be, and I am trying (by
>>> practicing various labs, and reading some posts on redistribution
>>> methodology) to keep it down to less than 30 min (ideally 20 min).
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Huan
>>>
>>>
>>> ccie az <ccieaz@googlemail.com> wrote: Hi All,
>>>
>>> I am interested to know how long a typical redistribution task would
>>> take for someone who has passed the CCIE Lab? I don't want to know in
>>> context of the actual lab, a mock lab scenario is fine. I don't think
>>> this breaks NDA, if it does please ignore.
>>>
>>> I am currently going through the IE labs in workbook 2, I am on lab 3
>>> and redistribution takes me the longest out of any other task at the
>>> moment. Maybe 30 mins - 1 hour.
>>>
>>> I guess it does take a little longer then other tasks even for the
>>> experts. But it would be great on some ideas of what i should be
>>> aiming for.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Az
>>>
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