Re: help understanding Full IGP reach ability in the lab

From: Thomas Fowles (tfowles@gmail.com)
Date: Sat May 17 2008 - 23:28:54 ART


Cecil-

It sounds like you are not providing the backbone router a route back to
your ping source. Full reachability requires both that your routers have
routes to all subnets AND that the backbone routers receive all of your
routes (or a default route if applicable).

HTH

-Tom
CCIE#18762

http://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasfowles

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Wilson, Cecil <
Cecil.Wilson@servicemaster.com> wrote:

> Hello GS
> Can someone explain how to get full IGP reach ability to include the
> backbone routers for example ping 150.3.3.254?
> I can usually reach the local interface e.g. 150.3.3.4 But NOT
> 150.3.3.254, can someone explain the concept of being able to ping the
> backbone routers?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Cecil Wilson
> Network Engineer
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> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Scott Morris
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 12:01 PM
> To: 'Larry'; ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: 1st Attempt
>
> Sounds like you picked up on the psychology portion of the lab exam pretty
> well there! Best of luck in your next (last?) attempt! :)
>
> HTH,
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Larry
> Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 11:12 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: 1st Attempt
>
> Hey everyone, wanted to share my experience with you in hops of helping you
> attain this cert. I took my first attempt yesterday and based on that
> subject you know the outcome. I knew I had some weak areas and I also did
> not feel ready to take it (but do we ever??). But i had passed 3 mock labs
> and figured a $1400 bootcamp would be nice.
>
> Anyway I made a HUGE mistake on the switching section right off the bat
> that
> cost me almost 2 hours when all said and done. This I equate to nerves, an
> hour of sleep the night before and thinking the CCIE man was out to get me.
> Don't make it harder than it really is....
>
> The test overall was not as hard as I had expected but as Cisco will tell
> you make sure you read the whole lab first. Ex, (not my lab but just
> something I can think of) If you think your IGP is intended to flow one way
> when redistributing, make sure you know how BGP or Multicast is going to be
> implemented and the restrictions they put on each. Also, like the Brians
> will tell you over and over 1 section/question is not mutually exclusive.
> This means that you MUST have time to go back through the exam just in case
> there is something in there that breaks a previous requirement or worse is
> a
> pre-requirement for a future. There could be one section that if done
> incorrectly could wipe out another whole section. Although I finished and
> felt good about it, due to the mistakes I made up front I did not have time
> to verify.
>
> A couple of recommendations:
>
> 1. Do labs from different vendors!! I am doing Internetwork Expert labs and
> they are great, the material will get you the knowledge you need to pass.
> But when you are use to a single source for you layouts, verbiage and
> solutions you get your brain programmed to that way. You can get sample
> labs
> from all the vendors which will give you another view of how things can be
> worded/layedout.
>
> 2. If you have your own rack, move the cables around covering your eyes. If
> you use dynamips edit your net files to make the connections a bit
> different. This will give you experience mapping your topology out via show
> cdp neigh and also help with #1.
>
> 3. Get sleep the night before. The most simple tasks became
> uncomprehendable
> to me although I had done them 100 times. I am not really sure how to
> recommend you do this especially if you are a stress monster like me but it
> is important.
>
> 4. Don't make this out to be Cisco against you. Pay attention to detail and
> know your technology but don't think every question is a trick or has
> hidden
> meaning.
>
> hope that helps someone.... I am taking a week long vacation and then will
> give it another try!
>
> -larry
>
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