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jscimeca715

Okay, I don't need help with anything...just want to vent. Here's my situation. I'm currently reading Wendall Odom's ICND2 book. Not practicing or anything...just reading. I'm doing the examples in my head and have followed along pretty coherently. After I'm done reading I'll go back and start studying.

That being said...

ACL's chapter...OH MY GOD. I've realized that is going to be my FAVORITE (sarcasm) chapter to study!!!

This has been a public service announcement brought to you by my fried brain. We now return you to your regularly scheduled postings.

blackninja

jscimeca715 wrote: »

Okay, I don't need help with anything...just want to vent. Here's my situation. I'm currently reading Wendall Odom's ICND2 book. Not practicing or anything...just reading. I'm doing the examples in my head and have followed along pretty coherently. After I'm done reading I'll go back and start studying.

That being said...

ACL's chapter...OH MY GOD. I've realized that is going to be my FAVORITE (sarcasm) chapter to study!!!

This has been a public service announcement brought to you by my fried brain. We now return you to your regularly scheduled postings.

The first time I saw them, I thought the same too.

But after reading it a couple of times and A BIT OF PRACTICE on the lab, they not too bad.. In fact they quite cool esp the reflective ACLS (not on CCNA).

Just battle on. Once you get past the ACL numbers, and get used to the syntax - they easy, trust me

SrAtechie

I'm with you there. If you can get a hold of one of the available icnd2 dvd's that might help as well. I couldn't make heads or tails of it after three read-throughs, and I almost threw a router because traffic wouldn't pass through that I thought should (curse you, implicit deny!) but seeing JC doing it on his CBTNuggets videos clicked in my head for some reason. After I watched, I went back to my books and my lab and it started to make more sense.

drew2000

Also - Odom usually goes miles deep on things, so there is a chance you won't need 100% of his content on the exam. I haven't made it to the ACL chapter yet, still on STP.

Drew

mikej412

jscimeca715 wrote: »

ACL's chapter...OH MY GOD.

ACLs is probably the 2nd most important Cisco Knowledge Building Block... right after #1 Subnetting

Slowhand

mikej412 wrote: »

ACLs is probably the 2nd most important Cisco Knowledge Building Block... right after #1 Subnetting

Neither of those have been faring well today, have they?

tech-airman

jscimeca715 wrote: »

Okay, I don't need help with anything...just want to vent. Here's my situation. I'm currently reading Wendall Odom's ICND2 book. Not practicing or anything...just reading. I'm doing the examples in my head and have followed along pretty coherently. After I'm done reading I'll go back and start studying.

That being said...

ACL's chapter...OH MY GOD. I've realized that is going to be my FAVORITE (sarcasm) chapter to study!!!

This has been a public service announcement brought to you by my fried brain. We now return you to your regularly scheduled postings.

jscimeca715,

Here's a way to think about ACLs that may help make you more sane. There's basically two types:

1. Block (deny) everything, except
2. Allow (permit) everything, except

Can you come up with an example of each type?

jscimeca715

tech-airman wrote: »

jscimeca715,

Here's a way to think about ACLs that may help make you more sane. There's basically two types:

1. Block (deny) everything, except
2. Allow (permit) everything, except

Can you come up with an example of each type?

tech-airman...I can't yet...I'm still reading. But I will be able to soon!

ColbyG

ACLs seem daunting at first, but I'm sure you'll pick them up pretty quick. Wait until OSPF areas in BSCI.

ilcram19-2

use named acls
ex
ip access-list extended NAMED_EXAMPLE
1 permit ip source destination
2 deny ip source destination

they get better lol

kryolla

convert it to binary they make more sense zero=match and one=dont care. Remeber block sizes and bit boundary. You can do a lot of funky matches with ACL

petedude

There's so much to learn!

What I'm going to tell future CCNA pursuers is that the Cisco Network Academy is a year long. . . for a reason!

You learn one thing well (at least that's the method Bryant pushes), then you move on to something else. . . and find out you'd forgotten the last item you covered. . . or something two chapters back. . . or. . .

All that, and the bar is extremely high for these certs. . . everybody else wants 65, 70 percent passes for their certs and Cisco wants 85. With their brutal exams, no less. I understand a vendor wanting to tout their cert program. I even understand wanting to make money off it, but. . . :: sigh ::