RE: CCIE Wireless OT Workbook

Mr Rodichev.

Thanks for the great post. Any idea ab

JoJo

> From: romangs_at_iementor.com
> To: barrerj1_at_hotmail.com; ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: RE: CCIE Wireless OT
> Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 02:08:53 -0500
>
> - read entire config guide for IOS and for controllers 4.x
> - know autonomous stuff in depth, CLI only, you should know what each
> command in CLI does
> - know controller stuff in depth, get used to the CLI. You should be able
to
> configure multiple controllers by using notepad and then pasting configs to
> all controllers
> - you should know about all the options in controller CLI that are not
> available in GUI
> - you should know how to configure Client and ACS for all types of
> authentication (LEAP, EAP-FAST, EAP-TLS, PEAP) and you should be
comfortable
> with Microsoft CA server to issue certificates
> - make sure you know how to operate Cisco Wireless Expert software
(cognios)
> - Make sure you know all best practices for 7921/7925 phones (cisco has a
> guide on their website)
>
> You really don't need to have a lot of controllers, two will be more than
> enough (but not one). One of them should be at least 4400 so that you can
> practice guest tunneling. So something like 2106 and 4400 would be good.
The
> cheapest setup would be two 2006 (not even 2106) controllers. 2006 can do
> everything 2106 can do, but they can't do guest tunneling. 2006's can be
> found for $300 on ebay, while 2106's are in the $1600 range.
>
> Number of APs depends on what kind of room you have. If you can place them
> around at 20-30 feet away from each other, then you should settle with
> around five APs. You could realistically study with just three APs, but
five
> would be nice. You will be switching them between Autonomous and LWAPP back
> and forth many times. Also, you'll need to get a couple of different rogue
> APs. You could use one or two of your five APs as rogues, but I would
rather
> get separate rogues like a Linksys. I studied with 1130, 1230, two 1240s,
> and 1250. You could potentially study with any of them, just keep in mind
> that 1230 doesn't support HREAP.
>
> You need to have a Location appliance, but an FYI, I studied for this lab
> without ever touching Location appliance. My first time exposure to it was
> in the lab. I couldn't find a way to get a location appliance image to run
> on a vm. Couple of folks told me it was possible, but anyone have yet to
> show me how it's done.
>
> You should have two or three PCs/laptops with a wired LAN access and WiFi
> cards. Get a Cisco ABG PCI (PC) or CardBus (Laptop) adapter. You will need
> to place these test machines in different places close to specific APs so
> that you know which APs they'll connect to first. It will help you practice
> scenarios in a controlled manner. You will access them via VNC or RDP
> through the wired connection and then test wireless. Windows by default
will
> use wired interface with better metric for the default gateway.
>
> You will need to have 7921 or 7925 phone. 7920 is obsolete. You will be
able
> to test a lot of scenarios with a 7921/7925 phone, especially roaming
stuff.
> This is where it's important to place APs far enough from each other so
that
> you can walk from AP to AP to test various roaming scenarios using a phone.
> I spent more time testing with a phone than a laptop.
>
> Regarding switches, I believe you just need a couple of switches to
practice
> with. Each switch should be connected to a separate Wired interface on a
> test PC for sniffing traffic in Wireshark. I strongly recommend finding a
> Wired NIC that has true support for Dot1Q tags so that you can see them in
> Wireshark. I would connect half APs and controllers to one switch and the
> other half to the other switch.
>
> One of your test PCs should be running Windows 2003 Standard with ACS, DHCP
> server, Microsoft CA, and WCS.
>
> You will test your client machines with Cisco ADU and Cisco CSSC.
>
> If you can get a hold of Cisco's Spectrum Expert, that's great, I studied
> without it. Just make sure to go through its PDFs.
>
> Finally, last but not least, you need the wireless sniffer adapter. I can't
> imagine passing this lab without this nifty tool.
>
> http://www.cacetech.com/products/airpcap_classic.html (issues running on
> Vista/Win7, use XP)
>
> B/G with capture only is enough, you don't need A/B/G/N. It's $198.
>
> I also got this thingy http://www.metageek.net/. It helped me visualize RF
a
> little better.
>
> About a month after I bought these two, they released a product that can do
> both: http://www.metageek.net/products/airpcap
> Verify that they actually do both, I didn't buy this one.
>
> Regards,
>
> Roman Rodichev
> 6xCCIE #7927 (R&S, Security, Voice, Storage, Service Provider, Wireless)
> Instructor, Content Developer
> ieMentor Corporation http://www.iementor.com
> Y!M: roman7927
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
JoJo
> JoJo
> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 4:44 PM
> To: ccielab_at_groupstudy.com
> Subject: CCIE Wireless OT
>
> Experts,
>
> I'm starting the CCIE Wireless track and I was wondering your
> recommendations
> for a Wireless CCIE Lab. I'm not new to Wireless but I will start from the
> bottom up CCNA+Wireless, CCNP Wireless, Wireless Written then lab and I
want
> to maximized my investment.
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
> JoJo
>
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