Re: Speed is part of the syllabus

My experience is that the CCIE lab can tolerate the time for typing , it
will not tolerate the time taken to infer the answer , try to know all the
technological combinations for an answer.
Any way , just a thought

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Yatin Dave <dave.yatin_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > Subscription information may be found at:
> > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
> >
> >
> > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > Subscription information may be found at:
> > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
> >
> >
> > Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
> >
> > _______________________________________________________________________
> > Subscription information may be found at:
> > http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html
>
>
> Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
>
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Subscription information may be found at:
> http://www.groupstudy.com/list/CCIELab.html

Blogs and organic groups at http://www.ccie.net
Received on Tue Oct 05 2010 - 12:06:30 ART