Notes from all the CCIE topics I’ve made
Category Archive: CCIE
My Lab
For my CCIE study I decided to go down the route of getting my own equipment and pulling my own lab environment together. Before I came to that decision, I weighed up all my options as I knew it wasn’t going to be particularly cheap. I was already using GNS3 extensively and this was my …
Sep 29
Update 4
Been quite a while since I actually wrote anything – 4 months I think, so thought I better give an update. My summer has been incredibly busy both socially and studying. Admittedly probably haven’t studied as much as I should have. Generally about 2-3 hours a night for 2-4 nights a week with 4-8 hours …
May 24
Update 3 – Multicast
Been reading up on multicast this last week. This is a completely new topic to me. I have never come across it before with the exception of Link-Local Multicast being used by routing protocols. The way it was explained, seems simple enough to understand the basics but I get the feeling its considerably more complicated …
May 07
Update 2 – My first practice lab
Did my first practice lab yesterday. I used a topology from INE as my rack is cabled that way anyway. Carved up the different routing protocols on paper and then began configuring. The first thing I came to realize is that I am very slow at the moment at completing labs, it took me the …
May 01
Update 1 – Lab upgrade
Just a quick update. My memory arrived for my routers and I finally managed to get round to installing it and testing it with version 15.1 IOS this weekend. So now all good, I have 4 x 1841s in total running IOS 15.1T with 64MB flash cards. Trying to find the time to study is …
Apr 24
The start of the climb
So I decided a little while a go to take the CCIE R&S exam. Taking the CCIE exam I knew will be a very long, very hard challenge but knew it will be worth it in the end. Obviously had to clear it with my wife first to make sure she was going to be OK …