Questions about the requisite reading

dirtyharry

Hey guys,

I've been working my way through the reading list for R&Sv5, and I'm finding that a lot of the denser material isn't sticking in my head well. Stuff like all of the decisions and states of the EIGRP FSM. I know EIGRP FC, FS, S, a local computation v. a diffusing computation, but I don't remember all of the states of the FSM. Stuff like that.

Should I intersperse the reading with some homemade labs? Or should I just work through it, and rely on doing labs/workbooks later?

I've read Routing TCP/IP vol.1, OCG vol.1, and half way through OCG vol.2. My next books are Routing TCP/IP vol.2, End-to-end QoS, and MPLS Fundamentals.

Also, any other books I'm missing? I was thinking of adding IP Routing on IOS, IOS-XE, and IOS-XR. Would this be too redundant?

Thanks in advance!

gorebrush

You need to be labbing once you've covered a technology.

I found that by the time I had read a book, I'd had forgotten the finer details at the front...

Labbing helps solidify the topics.

PsychoFin

And these days the blueprints for written and lab are very similar, so you could just start labbing much earlier.