It begins.

rakem

4 hours so far today. Going back through the IP Routing section of INE book 1.

Policy routing
Object tracking
GRE tunnels
Backup interfaces

No real issues with these.

rakem

Mondays are rest days for me, so nothing last night.
2 hour lab scheduled tonight and another on Thursday.
5 hour lab scheduled on Saturday and Sunday.

Should be a good week.

rakem

OER or PFR tonight.... Found it very complicated, took me ages to just get the first lab (3.14) in INE to work.
I had the configuration exactly as the book but the OER master was saying the BR's will all inactive...

The only way I got it to work was to configure the BR's first, then the master..... Weird.

Anyway I need to do lots of work on this. Does anyone actually use it in the real world?

rakem

Man there is lots to know about this OER stuff. Crazyness.
Another 2 hours working through the INE labs tonight - need to do lots more reading on this topic.

On another note - If anyone is interested a wrote a blog about how load balancers can be used in my works cloud computing environment. It would be good if you had a read and if you are feeling nice tweet it, and share in on FB (help me win a competition at work for the most tweet and likes)
Cheers

Load Balancing and you | Blog - Ninefold

rakem

What a frustrating day.
INE stuffed up all my rack rentals - the times were all wrong and I my session didn't start when it was supposed to.

Had to revert to my Dynamips setup but had all sorts of stupid problems with RIP and summarization.
Annoyed.

Logged a case with INE about the times - I'm in Australia so I have my timezone set to GMT+10. This has been fine for months.
Then suddenly today all my rack rental times were just wrong. The response from INE was less that compelling:

"When making reservtions, remember to press the "Refresh" button on your browser and navigated back to the Rack Rentals page to see the updated list of upcoming rack rentals. As for the time display, it's on the list of things to be fixed."

Yeah thanks, douche bag.

/rant

rakem

4 hours this morning.
Fished off some review on RIP, now doing a EIGRP review.

rakem

Dam, sat down to study tonight and just like that we had an outage at work.
Only minor, but my 2 hour rack session went to waste.

rakem

Manged an hour at work today. Made me feel a bit better for missing last night.

Should be able to do some more tomorrow at work also. Not much going on.

rakem

5 hours or so today on INE labs.
Finished review of EIGRP, now moving onto OSPF review for the next week.
Mulitcast after OSPF

rakem

2 hours after working, reviewing the INE OSPF section - pretty much just working through the labs one at a time again and taking any relevant notes

al3kt.R***

Hang in there m8 and keep us posted!!!
Cheers to your good preparation and to your success

jamesp1983

rakem wrote: »

2 hours after working, reviewing the INE OSPF section - pretty much just working through the labs one at a time again and taking any relevant notes

You're doing well, keep it up.

rakem

Missed a lab last night due to working late.

As usual, two 5 hours labs scheduled over the weekend.

rakem

5 hours this morning, reviewing OSPF.
5 hours again tomorrow, will finish of OSPF, then on to multicast

rakem

took about 4 hours to finish off the OSPF labs today.
Going to go out and enjoy the last few hours of sunshine... Multicast up next

Essendon

rakem wrote: »

Going to go out and enjoy the last few hours of sunshine...

Tell me about sunshine mate. It's been rainy and windy all day today, absolutely bucketing down at the moment. Sometimes I wish we had Brisbane's weather, not Darwin's though!

Been following your thread, inspiring to say the least! Keep up the good work.

rakem

Essendon wrote: »

Tell me about sunshine mate. It's been rainy and windy all day today, absolutely bucketing down at the moment. Sometimes I wish we had Brisbane's weather, not Darwin's though!

Been following your thread, inspiring to say the least! Keep up the good work.

Cheers mate. Good to see some Aussie's on here!

Multicast theory for the past few days - it's one of my weeker areas so i'm reading and watching videos before attempting the labs on the weekend

rakem

Taking a Saturday off for a change!

rakem

back to it today... 4 hours of reading and labs for Multicast
getting a lot more comfortable with it now!

rakem

I wrote a new blog about my attempt to get a new block of ipv4 addresses.

Let me know what you think... Leave some comments on the blog page....

IPv4 - worth more than gold? | Blog - Ninefold.com

rakem

An hour and 1/2 working through the multi-cast INE labs.
Hope to have that finished after this weekend.

rakem

4 hours so far today working through multicast INE labs.
Taking a bit longer than expected (perhaps cause I got a bit drunk last night)

Its a long weekend here - Grand Final weekend for the NRL and AFL, lots of stuff going on that is taking my mind away from study so i'm petty happy with 4 hours today. Should be able to do another hour.

rakem

couple of hours today... getting over multicast very quickly... Need to move on.

rakem

On to Ipv6. need to spend a fair amount of time on this as I'll be responsible for our IPv6 plans in the future.

I'm struggling with a comment in task 9.3 on the INE workbook1 IPv6 section, the Notes in the answer say "global unicast range start with binary 001 (2000::/3) and therefore encompass the range 2000:: to 3FFF::"

Isn't binary 001 = to hex 1?
or should it be 0010...

from there how to I get the /3 to be from 2000: up to 3FFF:
The /3 is the first three bits right?

I must be missing something simple

reaper81

The first 3 bits for global unicast right now are 001. We have 16 bits in the first segment of the address. This means that currently we have
001x xxxx xxxx xxxx

So the lowest address is 2000:: and the highest is 3FFF::

So currently we are assigning 1/8 of the available addresses. If we find out that the addressing policy was flawed we still have 7/8 left to do it the right way

rakem

Yea, but i don't get the /3.

In Ipv4 a /3 mask would mean your subnets are
0 -32
32-64
64-96.....

So how do you count the /3 subnet range in IPv6?

reaper81

It's the same method but in v6 we have hex so every hex character is represented by 4 binary characters. The / notates the same thing as in v4 that the first 3 bits are set and we can modify the rest. There is no way we can get higher than 3 in the first 4 bits because the first three bits are set to 001 = 2. We can only change the fourth bith which is a 1, so the highest we can get in the first 4 bits is a 3. It takes a while to get a grip of it but just put it all in binary and it will make sense.

rakem

Yea its slowly sinking in. I just have to keep reminding my self that every character in IPv6/HEX is 4 bits.

rakem

about 5 hours today... all IPv6, some labs some reading.

rakem

2 hours tonight, started working through the IPv6 INE labs. Going very well so far, i'm quite pleased with myIPv6 progress.