My 2 cents (maybe 5 cents, not sure yet). Since buying ipexpert lab books and VOD and since that some of the staff have used GNS3/dynamips with great success and others as well, I find that while the particulars of getting Ubuntu installed and getting IM to work are outside the scope of this forum, I believe GNS3 itself and the topologies involving ipexpert's workbooks are fair game as well as trying to hook up a quad NIC to the Gns3 topology and some wierd stuff to watch out for.
It's good to know the nuances of specifics on a task that isn't covered elsewhere. I certainly would not go to GNS3 and ask about "Task 4.1 in ipexpert's workbook - configure technology X so I do it and it does this and that what's the problem" while I may get some answers, I would have a better chance getting answers from people using the same workbooks as myself, using dynamips/gns3. The time it takes to go back and forth and wait, in the meantime sifting through "troll" postings is insane. At least here, there's no trolls to shoot anyone down. With that said, I believe that workbooks + gns3/dynamips are fair game since it is related to CCIE RS and it's good to leverage off others who have already done it. So with all that, I understand and even side with Adrian and Jeff and respect both opinions. The Ubuntu configuration extraordinaire emails and how to set that up I believe are outside the scope, and that does belong on the ubuntu forums, but the gns3 stuff I think is fair game, as long as it's related to workbooks, and lab tasks and maybe some basic hardware questions. -Nick --- On Wed, 10/21/09, Jeffrey W. Hall <[email protected]> wrote: From: Jeffrey W. Hall <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] problem with interface with eigrp adjacency To: "'Adrian Brayton'" <[email protected]>, "'OSL CCIE-RS'" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 9:00 AM Respectfully.....no. This is not just a CCIE theory forum, but also a CCIE lab preparation forum as well. With that, questions related to even being able to do the labs should fall within the scope of this forum. You are absolutely correct that other forums exists that also address these issues, but most of us are too busy working around the clock to afford the unproductive time of bouncing between multiple forums. I agree 100% with your sentiment and good intentions, but in a practical sense, this is the appropriate place to discuss issues hindering people from completing labs. This is only my two cents and I absolutely respect your point of view on this. Jeff -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adrian Brayton Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:31 AM To: OSL CCIE-RS Subject: Re: [OSL | CCIE_RS] problem with interface with eigrp adjacency I am sure that I am going to receive a lot of criticism on this post but here it goes... I understand how important GNS3 / Dynamips is to everyone and there lab studies but this is a forum for CCIE Routing and Switching questions... Not how to fix issues with Dynamips, Not on how to install Linux or how to reduce CPU usage or IM issues... There are plenty of high quality forum's that address all of these various issue's but this isn't one of them! I am not affiliated with IPexpert but they do have to pay for the BW on sending out thousands of e-mails that have nothing to do with the CCIE Lab or the written exam! So can we just keep this forum focused on CCIE Routing and Switching?!?!? On Oct 21, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Marko Milivojevic wrote: >> i think that the problem here is because dynamips, i think when >> there are many >> routers which run at the same time there si problem with some >> interfaces with >> dynamips, anyone knows about this problem, > > I think you are quite right and I believe that we concluded that long > ago in this thread. We're just taking the idea further... sort of a > mental exercise :-) > > -- > Marko > CCIE #18427 (SP) > My network blog: http://cisco.markom.info/ > _______________________________________________ > For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, > please visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com _______________________________________________ For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, please visit www.ipexpert.com
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