It begins.

Zartanasaurus

rakem wrote: »

Hit up lab 7 again today. Managed to get all the way through.

Need to go back through the security sections of WB1 soon.

They didn't consider any of the Security WB as "core" training, but in my opinion, tasks 11.1 - 18, 39-41 are core to me. You see the over and over in WBII labs.

And knowing all of the tasks from that WB will help you in troubleshooting labs, as they like to use those technologies to break things. They also like to use them as red herrings. It helps to know right away if a CBAC inspection rule applied to an interface is contributing to some other problem.

rakem

Lab 8 today. Very happy with my work.

rakem

Last lab of 2012!

Got through lab 10 pretty easily, some of the traffic filtering stuff through me out a bit, and the traffic export question was something i have never seen before!

Anyway not to worried about that. The core stuff went well. Really need to do some more QoS work soon. I've been spending so much time in the labs I have neglected my reading and theory work.

Anyway, it just went midday here so that means I can start my NYE celebrations now!

Happy new year all. Here's to becoming a CCIE in 2013!

rakem

Doing some of the troubleshooting labs from WB2 today.

rakem

Got through 3 troubleshooting labs from WB2. It was a nice change to do some troubleshooting rather than the normal labs.
Be good if they went into a bit more detail in the solutions than just the commands.

rakem

Lab 12 today and about 7 hours worth of study.
As usual I can nail the core topics but struggle with multicast and security. By the time I hit the QoS section I was over it all.

Tomorrow's time will be used for WB1 multicast reviewing, just the advanced stuff really.

I did pickup a good tip from an INE blog today though while troubleshooting some redistribution. If you are worried that you have a routing loop do a 'debug ip routing' and wait. If everything is stable you won't see anything (unless you make a change.) But if you have a routing loop you will see heaps of debug output every few minutes as the routing table changes.

Zartanasaurus

rakem wrote: »

Lab 12 today and about 7 hours worth of study.
I did pickup a good tip from an INE blog today though while troubleshooting some redistribution. If you are worried that you have a routing loop do a 'debug ip routing' and wait. If everything is stable you won't see anything (unless you make a change.) But if you have a routing loop you will see heaps of debug output every few minutes as the routing table changes.

Yup. Anytime I do redistribution, I turn that on right after to make sure everything is stable.

rakem

There are lots of bits of gold in the INE blogs.

Went back to WB1 for some multicast review today. It went quite well.
Need to do some more reading about MSDP and MBGP.

Another good 5 hours today, hopefully do some reading before going out for some beers tonight
Another lab scheduled tomorrow.

Zartanasaurus

rakem wrote: »

There are lots of bits of gold in the INE blogs.

Went back to WB1 for some multicast review today. It went quite well.
Need to do some more reading about MSDP and MBGP.

Another good 5 hours today, hopefully do some reading before going out for some beers tonight
Another lab scheduled tomorrow.

If you see something in the blogs, there's a good chance you're going to see it in the VOL 2 labs as well.

rakem

One month to the day until I take the lab.

Aiming for at least one hour of study every day with weekend labs until then

rakem

Been going really well this week. Around 2 hours every day so far.

Tomorrow is Friday and will probably take a break. Two 5 hours labs scheduled over the weekend and much much more!

rakem

Been hitting it pretty hard this week... at least 2 hours every night after work. Pretty tired at the moment but I feel it paying off.
Day of work tomorrow to go to a music festival, but will be able to do about 3 hours in the morning before hand.

jamesp1983

rakem wrote: »

Been hitting it pretty hard this week... at least 2 hours every night after work. Pretty tired at the moment but I feel it paying off.
Day of work tomorrow to go to a music festival, but will be able to do about 3 hours in the morning before hand.

Regular CLI time over long periods is key and you are doing that. Great dedication!

rakem

7 or 8 hours today, lost count.
Fine tuning everything and trying to get my speed up. Including this weekend I have only 3 more weekends before the big day.

rakem

Maybe 8 or 9 hours today... Lots of time spend on OER, sort of happy with it, but still some bugs to iron out.

rakem

2 and a bit hours after work tonight.
PPPoE
Private VLANs
Dot1q Tunnels

Spending a bit of time working on what I call the 'smaller random' topics. These are the simple ones that may or may not be on the exam but we should all know because they will be easy points (hopefully)

rakem

labs labs and more labs.

7 hours today, 8 hours yesterday

Zartanasaurus

rakem wrote: »

2 and a bit hours after work tonight.
PPPoE
Private VLANs
Dot1q Tunnels

Spending a bit of time working on what I call the 'smaller random' topics. These are the simple ones that may or may not be on the exam but we should all know because they will be easy points (hopefully)

Private VLANs and dot1q tunnels are pretty straightforward. The biggest thing to remember with PVLANs is making the primary SVI route for the secondary vlans. It's one line of config, but it's something that could trip you up.

Now PPP/PPPoE have a lot of little options and authentication methods that are worth knowing. Routing Bits is definitely good if you're looking for an assortment of smaller random topics.

rakem

Zartanasaurus wrote: »

Private VLANs and dot1q tunnels are pretty straightforward. The biggest thing to remember with PVLANs is making the primary SVI route for the secondary vlans.

Yeah im comfortable with them, just keeping it all fresh.

Another big day... 8 or so hours.

MLS QoS
DHCP snooping
DAI
PFR


10 days until exam

rakem

Ran into an issue tonight running OSPF over PPPoE
The PPPoE was up and I could ping between routes, OSPF adjancey was up and all good, but no routes were being exchanged... not sure why, to tired to look at it anymore.

9 days to go

reaper81

rakem wrote: »

Ran into an issue tonight running OSPF over PPPoE
The PPPoE was up and I could ping between routes, OSPF adjancey was up and all good, but no routes were being exchanged... not sure why, to tired to look at it anymore.

9 days to go

I seem to recall something similar. Which version are you on and what was the network mask of the routers?

rakem

reaper81 wrote: »

I seem to recall something similar. Which version are you on and what was the network mask of the routers?

Hmm, not sure what was happening last night but I reconfigured it again this morning and its all good. I was working in GNS3 with 12.4(22)T
Could have just been a GNS3 thing at the time... however i was also quite tired so it also could have just been me

rakem

Only about an hour tonight... been pushing to hard and am worn out.
Need to recharge before the weekend as it will be my last big study period.

7 days to go

rakem

Probably around 10 hours of study today.
Working through some of the troubleshooting labs, trying to get my speed up nice and quick.

Mrock4

Keep pushing hard rakem! I have a good feeling about your lab attempt!

Essendon

Yeah, you got this mate! Your 5 digits are waiting for you.

rakem

Thanks guys.
I'm getting a bit nervous now.. only 5 days to go!

Been labing for around 8 hour today. Going to take a break, drink a couple of beers, watch a few episodes of scrubs then do another few hours after dinner.

down77

Good luck! Looks like your exam is just hours before mine (adjusting for time zone change of course).

Remember during the tshoot session (picked this up from INE bootcamp):
sh run | sec route-map|access-list|prefix|policy|class

For the Configuration Section:
Focus on L2 and L3 reachability first. Then move on to multicast, QoS, IOS Security/Services, etc.

and of course, dont forget to name all of your Route-Maps / Class Maps, and Policy Maps after Cisco competitors just to see if they pay attention to the config (kidding on this one of course).

Seriously though, good luck and I look forward to hearing your result!

rakem

down77 wrote: »

and of course, dont forget to name all of your Route-Maps / Class Maps, and Policy Maps after Cisco competitors just to see if they pay attention to the config (kidding on this one of course).

lol. Good tip.

route-map JUNIPER_IS_BETTER
match ip address prefix-list I-LOVE-JUNIPER

down77

rakem wrote: »

lol. Good tip.

route-map JUNIPER_IS_BETTER
match ip address prefix-list I-LOVE-JUNIPER

I was thinking more like:

class-map Brocade
 match access-group 1

class-map Huawei
 match access-group 2

class-map Juniper
 match access-group 3

class-map Cisco
 match access-group 4
!
!
policy-map Routers
 class Huawei
         shape average percent 30
 class Juniper
         shape average percent 20
 class Brocade
         shape average percent 10
 class Cisco
         drop

Hopefully the proctors have a sense of humor!