Re: Speed is part of the syllabus

  HEY! That's good stuff! I like that BGP trick. Thanks Olugbenga. I'm
gonna try that tonight.

--Hammer--

On 10/2/2010 9:07 PM, olugbenga lasisi wrote:
> Experts et all,
>
> It's been over a week now that i had my breakthrough. I have decided
> that i'll keep sharing my success tips as they come to me. I shared some
> last week in my victory speech :).
>
> This post is about speed. I think this is key in succeeding in this race.
> There are tons of tricks, well maybe not tricks, rather means (if that
> sounds better) that could aid your speed in the exam. Few of these tips that
> we might all already know are;
>
>
> - Let notepad be your pen
> - CISCO DOC CD your bible
> - If you can avoid using multiple windows, that is; the only wife you
> should have in the lab is the term-server other devices should be its kids
> :)
>
> and so on ...
>
> Now lets get to the ones i discovered during my prep....I called them the
> magical commands.
>
> Like the one that makes you configure full mesh ibgp on multiple devices in
> 5 mins...I am sure someone must have said impossible,
> Well it is and the command is *"do show history"* in config mode. How does
> this work? I'll tell you..
>
> If i have to configure bgp xxx on Routers; R1,R2,R3 and R4 with a full ibgp
> mesh.. This is what i do.
>
> *On router R1*
> Conf t
> Router bgp xxx
> nei a.b.1.1 remote-as xxx (i am sure in your mind, you'll say this guy is
> nut for peering a device with itself, just hold your breadth i'll explain
> later)
> nei a.b.2.2 remote-as xxx
> nei a.b.3.3 remote-as xxx
> nei a.b.4.4 remote-as xxx
> bgp router-id a.b.1.1 ( note that putting this in the last line was
> intentional,( someone might say order is important but then,* Reload* does
> the magic of re-ordering the commands)
>
>
> Then i'll apply one of my magical commands "*do show history*" which shows
> me the message below as part of my last typed commands"
>
> Router bgp xxx
> nei a.b.1.1 remote-as xxx
> nei a.b.2.2 remote-as xxx
> nei a.b.3.3 remote-as xxx
> nei a.b.4.4 remote-as xxx
>
> so the next step is to copy these and paste on the rest of the devices. and
> on each configure the respective router-ids.
>
> *Now the reason i decided to peer R1 with itself is because i know the
> router will reject the command but then i'll still have it as part of my
> show history output, thus i can copy it and paste on other devices*.
>
> Try this method out and if you don't finsh ibgp config in 5 mins...I owe you
> lunch...that's if you are close to me and you are not a snail on the
> keyboard :).
>
> I ll stop for now and share some more in the future.....
>
> By the way this is me paying back for the wealth of knowledge i got from
> this forum :)

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