I’ve been going through more of the materials and am happy to report that it does get better.  Still not fantastic in my opinion but the rest of the routing material was more in depth and, more importantly, fewer attempts at humor. If anyone from INE reads this – I paid for material, not bad jokes.  Please keep them to the live classroom where context and such is much more apparent. It looks like...

So I’ve been going through the INE R&S written bootcamp CoD and so far, I hate to say it, I am not impressed.  The material isn’t as in-depth as I would have liked to see/hear and, I really hate saying this, but Anthony’s style really gets on my nerves (sorry Anthony).  At times it’s almost like listening to a paid commercial on TV and the attempts at humor are, unfortunately,...

Well it’s been a while since I’ve posted due to Real World Issues.  You all know how that works.  It’s an unfortunate state of affairs right now and concentrating on work and home is infinitely more important.  However, now that the baby is sleeping through the night and all our re-orgs seem to have completed it means I have time to refocus some of my energies towards studying. The biggest...

Life has a funny way of showing you who’s really boss.  Between a new kid, the economy, winter, and general mayhem working for a Very Large Telecom company not only have I had no time to study but all my certs expired on 12/18!!  Ugh.  Oh well – in case people are wondering I am still around and able to help and I do plan on pursuing SP as time permits.  Considering all I do every day is SP (although...

It’s been a bit since the last post but, again, real life has a way of doing that.  Child #2 is due in about two months and it’s summer.  Basically it means there’s not a ton of motivation to work on it.  Things are progressing though, albeit slowly. Additionally it turns out that a few other folks from work are interested in working on SP now too which will be nice.  Misery loves company...

Recently, Cisco added a new “Ask the Expert” thread on NetPro dealing with the CCIE Service Provider lab.  As that’s the track I’m working on I dug into it.  One of the most interesting responses I saw was: The written exam is not consolidation of former various eight written version, for example, it does not include DSL, Cable, etc technology. Written exam is proposed to certify candidate...

If you’ve been to the site before you’ll see it looks different now, and rightly so.  I moved to WordPress from ExpressionEngine to make a few things easier.  I also moved all the content, except the old comments, to WordPress so all the same information is and will be here. Stay tuned as I’ll be adding the Wiki soon and include all my configs and scripts (and diagrams) for how I have my...

It’s been a couple of months since I posted.  In the meantime I was busy with life, the universe and everything and (unfortunately) not studying.  I just got everything back online after the hiatus and also started working on my Juniper certifications.  To that end I began working on the Olive which is a Juniper router running on “regular” hardware.  It’s not fully functional but it gets the job...

So I decided to get a little tricky with my lab setup and failed miserably. I wanted to reduce the number of systems I have running and figured, “here’s this top-notch server, lets virtualize!” Boy was that a mistake.  Turns out that Xen can’t bridge USB devices to a virtual machine – so after I went and reinstalled everything, it didn’t work anyway!  Then when I tried to revert no flavor of...

I’ve had a number of people ask me via email and on blog comments on what the “best” layout/system is for setting up Dynamips and Dynagen.  I can’t take credit for the answers since I got them from the Dynamips forums but Chris and Greg are pretty clear about it.  The overall “best” system is a multi-processor or multi-core 64-bit system running a 64-bit version of linux.  The reasons are: less...