From: Narbik Kocharians (narbikk@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Mar 26 2009 - 00:17:42 ART
TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTooooooottttallly agreed
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:05 PM, Anthony Sequeira <
asequeira@internetworkexpert.com> wrote:
> In the actual lab exam, you are dealing with a pre-configured topology
> ready for your configurations of the tasks. I would begin my configurations
> without touching a thing, unless warranted by a task.
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> On Mar 25, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Dale Shaw wrote:
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> Hi all,
>>
>> When it comes to the big day, can anyone think of a good reason not to
>> 'shutdown' all switch ports first, enabling only the ports required by
>> the specific lab topology?
>>
>> In other words, literally "int range fa0/1-24" (or as appropriate),
>> "shutdown" everything, then as you're working through the lab guide,
>> configuring ports/assigning VLANs/creating Etherchannels etc.,
>> enabling ports as you go?
>>
>> Apart from the obvious potential trap of forgetting to "no shut" a
>> port, or situations where the task(s) make it clear you are not
>> permitted to shut anything else down, are there any traps?
>>
>> I was recently bitten by a problem caused by a switch-to-switch link
>> that was not part of my lab topology -- I had a flapping EIGRP
>> neighbour and it was all down to some 'extra' switchports coming in to
>> play.
>>
>> Curious about the way other people approach this issue.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Dale
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