From: Charles Henson (chenson@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Oct 04 2008 - 21:56:35 ART
No No. Not the whole lab. Not a chance. I am doing that now only because I'm
starting off with fresh routers. For the real lab, I was considering it for
the L2/L3 config and possibly for the routing protocols but nothing beyond
that. Security, QOS, Multicast, etc. would all be worked "real time". This
just seems to suit my personality so I was curious if anyone else had taken
the approach. Right now, it's not really impacting my time so I couldn't see
the harm in it. Considering that "existing" configurations could mess up my
copy/paste, I'll probably need to either be prepared (somehow) to deal with
that or scrap the idea completely. How much "preconfig" could they have?
That was rhetorical! :) As long as frame are shut for the obvious LMI/DLCI
reasons then it shouldn't take me long to "sho ru" a router and make sure I
don't see anything ugly. Maybe I'm simplifying this. It's my first attempt
for the most part...
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Andrew Dempsey <apdccie@gmail.com> wrote:
> I really see that this could lead to a lot of troubleshooting in the real
> lab. Especially if they have broken stuff in your configs to begin with.
> If I don't configure verify configure verify configure verify I tend to get
> into a lot of trouble. Some things I do in notepad and then dump on the
> routers the main ones that come to mind are PIM modes on interfaces, frame
> relay configs, and L2 switching if there is a lot of it. This actually
> sounds like something that might be useful to try just to test my
> understanding of commands, but I wouldn't dream of doing it on my lab date.
> Are you writing the configs all in notepad or using dynamips? No chance I
> am gonna pull a full labs worth of commands out of thin air.
>
> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Charles Henson <chenson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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>> Charles
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