From: Charles Henson (chenson@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2008 - 20:42:13 ART
This may be a bit naive of me but I was curious what anyones feedback would
be on this subject. I'm coming up on my first lab attempt in a few months. I
am currently using dynamips and renting racks for the most part. To make
better use of my time (which is still an issue for me) I often sit down and
write all my configs COMPLETELY in notepad one night and then paste them
into the routers/switches at the beginning of my rack rental and
study/troubleshoot/explore from there. One of the things that this has
helped me with is the "gotchas" that come 10 pages later in the lab. It also
makes me better with the configuration commands themselves. I have
everything in notepad so changes are easy. Has anyone used this approach for
the real lab or even considered it? I'm not saying do the entire lab in
notepad, but maybe all the L2/L3 and routing protocols first before any
security or QOS or whatnot is applied? I'm not seeing how this could
negatively impact me too much. Since I haven't heard it mentioned on GS
before, I'm wondering if maybe someones already been burned trying or if
it's just too far out there.....
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