From: Bogdan Sass (bogdan.sass@catc.ro)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2008 - 04:05:18 ART
Charles Henson wrote:
> 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...
>
I can see a few problems with doing that:
1) you lose access to the CLI help - and there may be times in the
lab where
2) it may seem like a timesaver now (when you can do the typing
outside of the rack rental time), but it might prove to be a timewaster
in the lab ("type/copy/paste" vs just "type").
3) as someone has already said, you need to
build/verify/build/verify. Check every step along the way. You cannot do
that with c/p
So I would recommend at least trying to do the configs directly on
the routers. Give it a try - if you still feel that doint it first in
notepad is better for you, you can always go back. Everybody has his own
approach, and what works for one person may not work for another.
-- Bogdan Sass CCAI,CCSP,JNCIA-ER,CCIE #22221 (RS) Information Systems Security Professional "Curiosity was framed - ignorance killed the cat"Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
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