CCIE R&S progress

Hi all, so after the feedback from the other thread i decided to make this thread! I am creating this to keep myself on track and hopefully feel bad knowing that other members are working hard while i think of excuses to not read or lab!

My story so far: Achieved my CCNA while at college, then went to university, have done my BSc in Networking and had a placement year also, i have been doing SAP basis for the past 2 years (while at university) and graduated about a month ago! during this time i also achieved my CCNP. I am now starting a Graduate scheme at BT in september for 2 years in the networking team and i want to learn at my own pace, hence cracking the whip!!

I have my trusty safari account with plenty of books to read and subscribed to INE for the videos to re-encorce the knowledge. I am NOT focusing too much on labs for the first month or so as i really want to cram it in currently. I have been doing about 2 hours or so revision a day for the past 2 months (then saw this website) and as of 2 days ago i have been doing 4 hours revision a day, minimum!

Any advice is welcome and any "OI SLACKER, GET YOUR ARSE IN GEAR" is also very much welcome!

All the best!

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aragoen_celtdra

I'm curious, other than CPU performance improvement that IOU offers, is there any other advantage over GNS3? I use GNS3 on a relatively powerful Ubuntu PC almost exclusively. I've never seen IOU in action.

vinbuck

IOU can do a LOT more on Layer 2 with spanning tree, LACP, Private VLANs, etc...I used it for SWITCH during the NP

spiderjericho

I talked about and show screenshots of VIRL in the CLUS thread in off topic.

Honestly, in 2 years with some product maturity (ie updates), it'll be the default program/platform. However like GNS3, CATOS/IOS Switching is limited. But it accomplishes what the current GNS3+Virtual Box combination through one application since VIRL is just a virtual appliance.

You can run NX-OS, IOS-XR, a virtual machine, CSR-1000 and VIOS. Makes a pretty good platform for Data Center and SP pursuits.

It wasn't the smoothest experience.

Also word around town is the beta for V5 is coming down the pipeline.

aragoen_celtdra

vinbuck wrote: »

IOU can do a LOT more on Layer 2 with spanning tree, LACP, Private VLANs, etc...I used it for SWITCH during the NP

Ah! Good to know. I am running a hybrid GNS3 setup at home and so far it has been pretty good. I do get the occasional hangs but over all it's been pretty good. Although I have never ran any IE topology setups yet so I don't know how well they will perform when I start doing full blown labs.

aragoen_celtdra

spiderjericho wrote: »

I talked about and show screenshots of VIRL in the CLUS thread in off topic.

Honestly, in 2 years with some product maturity (ie updates), it'll be the default program/platform. However like GNS3, CATOS/IOS Switching is limited. But it accomplishes what the current GNS3+Virtual Box combination through one application since VIRL is just a virtual appliance.

You can run NX-OS, IOS-XR, a virtual machine, CSR-1000 and VIOS. Makes a pretty good platform for Data Center and SP pursuits.

It wasn't the smoothest experience.

Also word around town is the beta for V5 is coming down the pipeline.

I'm looking forward to seeing how VIRL pans out. It'd be nice to be able to do what GNS3 gave us, and be able to run other OSs as well.