Re: CEF disabling in the LAB devices

While I wouldn't personally recommend this just because of potential
stability issues (and the risk that you might *introduce* a need for
the very troubleshooting you're trying to expedite), just as a general
matter of discussion don't forget all that something as easily
disabled as CEF can just as easily be re-enabled before punching out
for the day (assuming you're not in a blind panic and prone to
forgetting!). My own personal view is that some people get WAY too
wound up about some of this stuff. I recall prior to my own lab I
discussed here my general practice of shutting down all switchports
using 'int range' and then enabling them individually as tasks called
for their use. You would have thought I committed heresy from some of
the responses I got. I was all but assured I would fail the lab on
this count alone. I was also assured I would be instantly failed and
barred from the lab for saving the initial configs to flash at the
start of the day. Well, I can assure you that shutting all the ports
didn't hurt me any. As for saving to flash, I was made sufficiently
paranoid about that not to do it but I've since heard from many, many
people who did just so (I read about it in their pass announcements to
the list, so what does that tell you?).

The lab is stressful enough without overburdening ourselves with non-
rules and hearsay. On the other hand, this is most definitely *not* a
time for free-styling. The goal should be to earn the number (or the
nth IE) when the scripts go walking through our stuff. I wouldn't do
anything that would lessen that likelihood and this might be one such
case. But on the other hand, the lab is not a china shop and that's
worth bearing in mind too, IMHO...

On May 4, 2009, at 10:13 , Thameem Maranveetil Parambath wrote:

> I wont touch anything in the initial config unless there is a
> troubleshooting section,
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> I believe you will miss points if you remove anything from intial
> config.
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> Warm Regards,
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> Peter Kurdziel <usaccie_at_gmail.com>
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> I don't know but I personally would not do anything that was not
> specifically stated in the lab tasks.
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> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Anantha Subramanian Natarajan <
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>> Hi All,
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>> Assuming disabling CEF would help to run debugs on the LAB
>> devices..Is
> it
>> advisable to disable CEF in the LAB premenanetly and also is there
>> any
>> feature required in the LAB would depend on CEF enabling.Kindly let
>> me
> know
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>> Thanks
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>> Regards
>> Anantha Subramanian Natarajan
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