From: Troy Rader (troy@xxxxxxxxxx)
Date: Sun Jan 14 2001 - 17:03:36 GMT-3
I will agree with Chuck. Especially since you have so many months until
your lab (although time will fly and it will be here before you know it).
If you can read those books, and others, AND get in a ton of lab time, you
will be in good shape. If you have the time, and you do IMHO, read it
all. Soak it up. Then do practice labs. I find it useful to read a
topic, then lab it to help me make sense of it. Toward the end though,
you will be mostly labbing and just referring to the books you've read,
and perhaps some you haven't, to get thru all the practice labs you will
certainly be working on.
Just don't put off getting started. Start reading now, or you may not get
to cover enough material to feel really comfortable with the theory before
you start putting it into practice.
Good luck!
Troy
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Chuck Larrieu wrote:
> I'm going to respectfully disagree with some of the other responses you have
> received. 100% lab practice is NOT the way to go, IMHO
>
> You cannot expect to completely abandon the books and become expert in the
> kind of configuration issues you will face in the Lab.
>
> Let me throw out a couple of questions here, to illustrate the point.
>
> 1) What are the issues with redistribution of VLSM protocols into FLSM /
> classful protocols? What are the ways one can do so WITHOUT resorting to a
> default route, a default network, or a default gateway?
>
> 2) What are the implications of the various types of frame-relay interfaces
> and subinterfaces with regards to each of the routing protocols you can
> expect to find in the Lab? E.g. if you have the classic three router pod,
> and router_1 has a multipoint subinterface, and router_2 has a
> point-to-point subinterface, and router_3 does not use subinterfaces, what
> are the implications to each of the common routing protocols?
>
> 3) What are the implications of changing the ospf network type on an
> interface or any kind, frame-relay or otherwise? If you do so, what else
> must you change, and where?
>
>
> I just finished one of my practice labs, an ospf one, and it has left me
> considering each of these points. I spent 30 minutes troubleshooting an
> issue where one of the routers was not getting ospf routes. I had originally
> attributed the problem to the md5 authentication I had just put into the
> area. Wanna guess what the problem was? Hint - changes to ospf network
> types on a frame relay network require what other changes as well?
>
> Every individual can decide a correct ratio of lab to book time. For me that
> ration is about 75% book and 25% lab right now. I expect to increase the lab
> to book ration to about 4 to 1 by March 1, which is five weeks from my lab
> date. The last two weeks before my lab I expect to be doing 95% lab work as
> a final push preparation.
>
> But 100% lab? No way. I want to be well grounded in theory so that I can
> make adjustments based on what they throw at me. Trying to do that my lab
> alone I am convinced will leave me unprepared for those things I know Cisco
> is going to throw at me.
>
> JMHO
>
> Chuck
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
> Bruce Williams (TruePosition)
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2001 10:33 AM
> To: ccielab@groupstudy.com
> Subject: New Member
>
> I just joined the CCIE Lab list today. I am scheduled to take my lab on =
> Sept 13th and 14th in RTP, NC. Currently I am doing labs from CIMs, and =
> labs from "CCIE All in One Lab Study Guide". After I finish Internet =
> "Routing TCP/IP, I plan to read "Internet Routing Architectures", "Cisco =
> LAN Switching" and Caslow's "Bridges, Routers and Switches". By the =
> time, I finish that it will be close to my scheduled lab date and I am =
> hoping possibly to attend Mentor Technologies, "ECP1" course or do the =
> labs from CCbootcamp. How does my plan sound? Any suggestions.
>
>
> Bruce Williams
> bruce@williamsnetworking.com
>
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