Here we go again…
Well it’s almost time to take the plunge again and go for another attempt at the CCIE R&S Lab exam. I fly out on Sunday and take the exam on the Monday morning, I’m taking a lot less time over in Belgium this time as I don’t personally feel that I need it. This time round I have tried to polish up on some of my periphery topics that I felt weak on after the last round. Will it have been enough? Only time will tell and you can only…
CCIE Lab… round two!
Well my seat and travel etc is all booked for my second attempt at the R&S lab. I’ll be sitting the exam at the start of January (7th Jan) as this was the soonest seat they had (I checked on the Monday after my first attempt). I had wanted to try and get in there a little sooner as I felt I was ready but it seems that the whole of December was blocked solid! This time around I will do much of the same yet more, I will be…
CCIE Lab attempt number one… FAIL!
Well last week I went over to Brussels to take my first lab attempt. As most of you already unfortunately know I was unsuccessful and I failed the lab. For my first attempt I decided that I was going to take my time and extend the stay past the usual ‘splash and dash’ stay. I flew out on Tuesday evening and then checked in at the NH Hotel, I spent Wednesday mainly in my room going over a few RFC’s, checking some things on the DocCD and relaxing watching some…
CCIE R&S Lab… point of no return!
Well today I got the confirmation through from Cisco that my lab attempt has been paid for and therefore there is no turning back now! Once you are within 90-days of your lab exam there are no changes or cancellations allowed which can seem a little extreme but I think it is more because of the fact that there are very limited amount of seats available. For those interested I will be taking the lab exam in Brussels on the 8th November, I had considered keeping the attempt quiet but…
INE Bootcamp complete…
Last Friday I finished the 10-day R&S bootcamp from the guys over at INE and I just though that I would post a few words about the overall experience. If anyone is considering whether to go on the course then I can not recommend it enough and no matter what skill level you are at then there is always going to be something to learn from it. Every student on the course gets access to their own rack for the 2 weeks, these are a number of new racks from…
One week down… CCIE Bootcamp
One week down… CCIE Bootcamp Well I am sitting here recovering from what has been a intense first week of the 10-day CCIE R&S Bootcamp from the guys over at INE. The course itself is nothing short of brilliant and I don’t think you can get a better course for your money on the market at the moment. The first week was spent going over the core topics; switching, IGP’s, BGP, MPLS and MPLS VPN with the second week left for the smaller but for most people harder subjects such…
Script – Applescript for connecting to terminal server (Cisco)
Whilst I have been studying for my CCIE I have been lucky enough to have access to a rack of equipment at my workplace which pretty much (apart from some different WIC’s etc) matches the INE topology. When I started out I used to manually connect to each device using its rotary port number from the terminal server but this soon got pretty old! I use iTerm for all my terminal needs on OSX (if you haven’t got it then give it a try) and decided to look into whether…
Its bootcamp time….
Well tomorrow I’ll be jumping on a train down to London to take part in the INE 10-day CCIE bootcamp with Brian Dennis. As part of my lab preparations I don’t think I could do any better than getting Brian himself to run me and a few others through our paces. I’m sure it’ll be an intense 2 weeks however I will try and get a couple of posts written up at the same time. I’m also trying to put together a ‘CCIE Wiki’ over at http://wiki.networkbroadcast.co.uk for anything that…
Security – Reflexive ACL’s
Today I have been going through some more of the INE Vol2 labs and thought I would do a quick post on reflexive ACL’s. Reflexive ACL’s Reflexive ACL’s can be used as a basic kind of ‘stateful’ table on devices to allow traffic back inbound on already established connections. The reflective part of this feature can only be used on normal traffic flows where the inbound traffic is the same as the traffic that flowed outbound, this means it cannot be used for things like traceroute, VoIP (SIP) calls, FTP…
CCIE Lab – Booked…
Tonight I have made the plunge and booked a lab date to make my first attempt at the CCIE R&S lab over in Brussels. Whilst it is still a way off at the moment I think this will be the best way for me to work, it gives me just under a couple of months before the payment due date, by which time I should know for sure if I am running ahead or behind of my schedule and adjust accordingly because once that 90-day barrier has been crossed there…
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