From: Rick Mur (rick@rickmur.nl)
Date: Sun Oct 05 2008 - 04:18:51 ART
I really see problems when you create the whole config for each router
and edit that.
What I see as the best practice for notepad use is just create the
config you would type in for each questions.
So question 1 is run ospf area 0 on this interface, you type:
router ospf 1
router-id 1.1.1.1
network 172.16.0.1 0.0.0.0 area 0
Question 2 is put this interface in area 2 and make it stub
router ospf 1
area 2 stub
network 172.17.0.2 0.0.0.0 area 2
So with this you can paste the question in your routers and verify it.
This takes a little more time, but keeps the important thing of
verifying each question. If you do have a problem later on, you can
scroll back in notepad and see your error. You can even create little
notes at each question why you did it. So when you are done the
verification of the whole lab is much easier, because you know your
thought process behind each question.
Rick Mur
CCIE #21946
On 5 okt 2008, at 09:05, Bogdan Sass wrote:
> 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
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