Re: Lab duct tape

While I've been to the lab and never resorted to duct tape also... a good
friend of both of ours... suggests using static routes as a fool-proof
method to get things working and further suggests asking the proctor if it
will fail you or not or if it is ok. The idea being not to lose more upper
layer points over simple connectivity.

In the new INE troublehsooting labs I've ran into an instance where a static
route is used as a sort of sanity check.

Personally I like the term "duct tape".

Other suggest some other things:

1. PBR
2. Tunnels
3. NAT
4. IP Unnumbered

etc.

For starters.

I'd like to mention:

1. Turn off VTP Pruning
2. Switchport trunk allowed vlan 1-4094

Just in case...

On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, Anthony Sequeira <asequeira_at_ine.com> wrote:

> Awesome thinking...at times we might have to apply "duct tape" in order to
> keep on moving and collecting other points.
>
> I would make one comment here, however. When I was doing this, I never,
> ever violated any of the initial Do's and Dont's of the lab exam. So from
> your list below, I would NEVER do a static route in the lab exam, unless
> explicitly instructed that I could. I am not sure what happens when you
> violate those initial instructions, but I never wanted to find out. :-)
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Anthony J. Sequeira, CCIE #15626
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> On Sep 5, 2009, at 11:11 AM, Mark Matters wrote:
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> Here are some items that you can duct tape and move on so you can finish
>> the
>> lab. Then go back and start fixing things? What do you think?
>>
>> 1. etherchannels - duct tape = trunks
>> 2. redistribution - duct tape = unfiltered redistribution
>> 3. igp - duct tape = static route
>> 4. multicast - duct tape = ip mroute
>> 5. security - duct tape = no security
>> 6. qos - duct tape = no qos
>> 7. bgp - duct tape = plain old ibgp and ebgp
>>
>> Are a few points worth an hour to get working?
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