CCIE News

Hello Readers,

I just read some nice articles on Eman’s blog. I just want to share them with you.

Have a good reading

CCIE Flyer August 2009
Darby Weaver thoughts on IPExpert CCIE R&S Bootcamp
Post on Cisco Learning Network forum

Lasts steps to MCITP !

Hello you!

I was off from networking world for some time. My company asked me to become MCITP Entreprise Administrator. I now have to pass both Vista and PRO tests for WS2008. I’m glas it’s now achieved ! I can remove all this vmware stuff from my hard drive This odissey to MCITP title was not that hard but long because it has been a long time since I had to manage servers. The vista test, 70-620, was quite easy as I always found workstation exams. I got some hands on questions,  around 5.  It was pretty nice looking and well emulated. I won’t say much to avoid breaking NDA but also because I scored well !

PRO test was a real nightmare ! I sweared a lot despite of the weather that day!! I would tell anyone taking this test to prepare very strictly ! You should have a good night before and fresh ideas. You’ll deal with long text questions and though answers… To resume, practice a lot and if you’re not experienced on technologies, go back to field or server console

See you later !

PS : I’ll make more efforts to keep this blog updated

ONT Preparation

Hello,

As promised, here are the links I used for the 642-845 test preparation.

Chesapeake NetCraftsman – QoS articles

Comparing the bandwidth and priority Commands of a QoS Service Policy [QoS Packet Marking]

Implementing QoS Solutions for H.323 Video Conferencing over IP

QoS Configuratideo Conf_v1.pdf

Voice Over IP – Per Call Bandwidth Consumption

Congestion Management – Congestion Management Overview [Support]

Implementing Quality of Service Policies with DSCP [QoS Packet Marking]

Configuring Link Fragmentation and Interleaving (LFI) With Campus ATM Switches

Understanding Compression (Including cRTP) and Quality of Service [QoS Link Efficiency Mechanisms]

H.323

Control Plane Policing

HTH.

CCIE R/S page released

Hello,

I just wrote a quick page called “CCIE R/S”. The main idea and goal is to provide you with all official informations about both written and lab exams. Links published there are only from Cisco.
I assume it could help to answer any of your questions about these tests.

Here it is!

Enjoy!

NMC quick notes to build your CCIE Lab strategy

Hello,

I read a quite interesting article this morning on NetMasterClass website. It’s a 14 pages guide to help build and make your own strategy to prepare for CCIE lab. It gives some directions to avoid overwhelmed feeling about topics quantity. I’d definitely recommend it to any IE wannabee Furthermore, you can check their free interesting article library.

Here it is :
- CCIE-PREPARATION-STRATEGY
- Free Articles

Enjoy !

CCIE study leitmotiv’

“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.”

HowTo Use Cisco DocCD/Documentation ?

Hello you,

Long time no write on my blog, sorry for all you who follow it regulary. It was time for vacations and beginning of my CCIE written test preparation. Today, I found a nice tutorial from InternetworkExpert Team, explaining the way to use Cisco documentation and also bring a ccie lab focus.

Here it is !

Enjoy and see you soon

BGP regular expressions

Hello,

Here is an article to remain or learn each metacharacter feature in ip as-path command.

. Any single character, including white space.
[] Any character listed between the brackets.
[^] Any character except those listed between the brackets. (The caret is placed before the sequence of literals.)
- (Hyphen) Any character in the range between the two literals separated by the hyphen.
? Zero or one instances of the character or pattern.
* Zero or more instances of the character or pattern.
+ One or more instances of the character or pattern.
^ Start of a line.
$ End of a line.
| Either of the literals separated by the metacharacter.
_ (Underscore) A comma, the beginning of the line, the end of the line, or a space.

Link on Cisco Documentation

HTH

MPLS Lab

Hello,

I’m currently doing Knowledge Net MPLS labs.
I set up my lab on Dynamips and for the moment it runs very well…
You can download the dynagen .net file here.

Enjoy !

How to configure SDM with Dynamips

Hello gears,

I installed SDM engine today in order to prepare myself for ISCW test.

I searched the web about howto’s but I never found what I needed. Hope that tutorial can help someone else.

Steps :

• Configure an ip address on a router interface and enable it. This interface must be fast/ethernet type.
  • Ex :
  • Router#conf t
  • Router(config)#ip http secure-server (Some keys should be generated…)
  • Router(config)#interface fastethernet0/0
  • Router(config-int)#ip address 172.16.0.2
  • Router(config-int)#duplex full
  • Router(config-int)#no shut
• Install a loopback adaptater on your pc : You can follow the following article for this Link.
• Run the “Network device list” batch from Dynamips folder and gather the hardware reference for your network adaptater.
• Edit you .net file and add the following statement
  • F0/0 = NIO_gen_eth:DeviceNPF_{ ** your nic reference **}
• Modify the new Windows network connection and assign it a static ip address such as 172.16.0.1/24.
• Run your .net file and try to ping from both sides : Router->PC and PC->Router
• Install SDM engine on your PC. I’m currently using the version 2.4.1. You may need to allow activex, you can trust them.
• Use the ip address you defined on the router and enter it into SDM. 172.16.0.2 in our case.
• You will be prompted for a username and a password. You have to define it into router configuration. Below is an example.
  • Router(config)#usernmame sdm priv 15 password sdmlab

Cheers and Enjoy !