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Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) Interview

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 31, 2008 ⋅ 6 comments

Joe Harris from 6200network.com has a great interview with one of the people involved in developing the new Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE). Great information on this new Expert level track from Cisco. Check out the interview here.

Blog: CCIE Practice Lab Built

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve got my own practice labs! Well it’s not really mine, but work has graciously let me do my CCIE prep on the BSCI gear they have. What this means is that when a BSCI class is not running, I can use it for my CCIE lab prep. We run a BSCI class about once a month, so that means the rest of the time its mine! The BSCI kit consists of 14x 2600 routers, 1x 2522, and 1x 2950. I’ve cabled it up to mimic the Internetwork Expert Topology (minus the 4 switches!). All the 2600’s are cabled into the 2950, and the 2522 acts as an 8 port Frame-relay switch for 8 of the 2600’s.

Emulating JunOS

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 23, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Himawan Nugroho has updated his awesome blog with information on how to set up JunOS on an emulator using jqemu. Awesome! Dynamips/Dynagen to study for your CCIE, Jqemu to study for your JNCIE!

Backing Up Router Configs to SharePoint

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 21, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I found this great article on google blog search today: Sharepoint for Cisco fanboys. The article details how to use Sharepoint’s version control features to save multiple copies of Cisco configurations. Awesome! Looks like I’m going to be busy at work.

Tutorial: OSPF Network Types and Frame Relay Part 2

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 20, 2008 ⋅ 5 comments

In our last article we looked at the Broadcast and Non-Broadcast OSPF network types. We will be continuing our OSPF Network Type series of articles by looking at Point-to-Multipoint and Point-to-Multipoint Non-Broadcast network types.

Cisco IP Multicast Training Materials

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 19, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I discovered more training material while surfing today. Its a collection of FREE IP Multicast training slides from Cisco! Really great information. I’ll have to add that to my reading list.

Tutorial: OSPF Network Types and Frame Relay Part 1

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 19, 2008 ⋅ 15 comments

Knowing the OSPF Network Types and how they work with different frame relay topologies is one of those things that you should know inside out if you are attempting the CCIE lab. In this next series of articles we will be looking at the 5 OSPF network as well as how and when to use [...]

Blog: Stop Stolen Content with Apache Mod_Rewrite!

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 18, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I was checking my wordpress admin panel, and noticed a new incoming link today. Oh cool, I thought. Someone nice has linked to me. I opened up the link to check it out and there was my article on how to set up a cisco router as a webserver. The whole thing. Images. Dynamips/Dynagen .net [...]

Study Tip: CCIE Practice Lab Strategy

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 12, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

I was reading through the GroupStudy archives and stumbled on this fantastic thread on another CCIE study strategy. In the thread, Brian Dennis from Internetwork Expert notes that a highly successful approach that they recommend for some candidates is “taking only 5 or 6 full scale labs and do them 4 or 5 times each. Then during the last week or two before the real lab taking 2 or 3 additional full scale labs and them once or twice each”.

New Blindhog Dynamips Video

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 12, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Blindhog has released another great Dynamips video tutorial showing how to use a windows loopback interface to connect to your dynagen/dynamips lab in GNS-3. Check it out!

CCIE Secrets eBook

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 11, 2008 ⋅ One comment

I found this free CCIE Secrets eBook online at CCIE Secrets. Great eBook, with plenty of tips for planning out your CCIE strategy and putting your own lab together.

Blog: Update on New Study Strategy

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 4, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Well I’ve done lab 6 twice now and both times I learnt something new. First time through i finished the lab in just over 10 hours. Second time i did it 6 hours. The QoS and Security sections slowed me down the most first time through. I couldn’t figure out how to turn on WRED Congestion avoidance for HTTP traffic without using a bandwidth statement…

Internetwork Expert Blog!

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 2, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

This showed up in my RSS feed today: Internetwork Experts’s CCIE Blog! Looks great! Both Brians already have a posted a couple of great articles. Looks like another great CCIE blog that I will be subscribing to.

Blog: My New Study Strategy

By Arden Packeer, CCIE #20716 ⋅ January 1, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

I’ve been thinking about the way that I have been preparing for the lab, and I think I am going to change tactics. So far I have been working through the Internetwork Expert labs. Whenever I come up with a problem with a particular topic, I lab as much as I can on that one topic. I usually complete some of the exercises related to that topic from Workbook 1, and then watch the excellent class on demand videos. This has helped really solidify my knowledge in some of my key weak areas (QoS, Multicast)….