Re: Speed is part of the syllabus

My2cents, though the trick is great no doubt about it but if you go
further it would be the best, how ? you can always verify each stuff
they asked in one task by seeing the history and check that you
satisfied everything they asked to do in the task, I agree show and
debugs are there but they only work if you had configured something.

Regards,
Yatin Dave

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Tyson Scott <tscott_at_ipexpert.com> wrote:
> My 2 cents; I personally prefer just doing "show run | section router bgp"
> as an example. your history commands may contain errors due to typos or you
> may have additional commands for something else you were doing so getting
> the running configuration is more reliable in my opinion.
>
> Also I have to agree with Marko. Using single terminal instance is time
> consuming and causes you further trouble in troubleshooting issues. I
> highly recommend using multiple windows and become better at managing the
> multiple windows. But to everyone their own right.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tyson Scott - CCIE #13513 R&S, Security, and SP
> Managing Partner / Sr. Instructor - IPexpert, Inc.
> Mailto: tscott_at_ipexpert.com
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of Jack
> Router
> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 3:27 PM
> To: 'olugbenga lasisi'; 'GS CCIE-Lab'
> Subject: RE: Speed is part of the syllabus
>
> Thanks for BGP trick. I was doing this already by typing all neighbors in
> notepad and pasting to all routers but "show history" is even faster. Thanks
> !!!
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody_at_groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody_at_groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> olugbenga lasisi
> Sent: 2-Oct-10 22:08
> To: GS CCIE-Lab
> Subject: Speed is part of the syllabus
>
> 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 :)
>
> --
>
> Olugbenga Lasisi
> CCIE(R&S)# 27036
>
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