Maybe a wiki?

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Jigar K Dave <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Group,
>
> Just a small suggestion from my side, we can see that some questions are
> repetitive like
>
> 1. what is the best way to prepare for lab
> 2. what books to refer
> 3. strategy for lab
> 4. how to split time in lab for troubleshooting and configuration
> 5. some technical questions on network and security technologies
>
> we can see it is repeated once every new member joins this group. could we
> have a way to redirect him in some older mail/archive reference.
> otherwise what happened unnecessarily one mail chain is elongate though the
> answer is known to every old members. I appreciate its good to answers
> everyone's query but by this way we can shape the things.(this applies to
> each group like RS, Security, storage, wireless etc.)
>
> guys your thoughts on this
>
> Tyson - need your comments also.
>
> sorry - its a general thing, plz don't take it personally. I am not
> pointing this to anyone.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Jigar
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 5:35 AM, Matt Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Gaurav wins!
>>
>> Unless it says "dont do it this way" you can.  Just be aware of what
>> one way of doing something will break elsewhere in the network.
>>
>> Which is why (as Gaurav says) you must know multiple ways of doing things.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Matt
>>
>> CCIE #22386
>> CCSI #31207
>>
>> On 20 August 2010 00:52, GAURAV MADAN <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Mate ..
>> >
>> > First .. Lemme tell u that if u know of more than one way of doing
>> > things .. U r on track :) It certainly helps in exam ..
>> > Coming to your point .. Read the instructions very very carefully ..
>> > They will answer your query most of times .. In case u still have
>> > doubt .. Proctor is there to help you .. Go and tell that u know of
>> > these these ways to perform the task .. If he thinks that he shd
>> > answer your query .. he will definitely do ..
>> > If he doesn't .. there is something hidden in  question and try
>> > figuring that out ..
>> >
>> > Remember CCIE is not the exam to just do the task .. It is exam to do
>> > task ; the way they want :)
>> >
>> > Just my 2 cents ..
>> >
>> > Good Luck !
>> >
>> > Gaurav Madan
>> > CCIE # 23863
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:33 AM, Cody Cook <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >> I have a question for everyone.  I'm using a variety of vendors'
>> >> workbooks to work on labs and have run across something that has been
>> >> bothering me.  Not so much a question about any lab but more of a
>> >> general thing.  If the lab you are working on doesn't expressly forbid
>> >> a solution, is it okay to use it?  More specifically the use of
>> >> tunnels to solve some issues.
>> >>
>> >> Here is an example of what I mean.  You have two routers that you are
>> >> told to set up as EBGP peers.  Router 1 (R1) is in AS 100 and router 2
>> >> (R2) is in AS 200.  Let's assume that they are connected to a common
>> >> vlan using f0/1.  R1 has an ip of 10.0.0.1/24 with a secondary ip of
>> >> 10.1.1.1/24.  R1 has an ip of 10.1.1.2/24 with a secondary ip of
>> >> 10.0.0.2/24.  You are told to set up the peering without using the
>> >> secondary addresses.
>> >>
>> >> R1
>> >> int f0/1
>> >> ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
>> >> ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 secondary
>> >>
>> >> R2
>> >> int f0/1
>> >> ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.0
>> >> ip address 10.0.0.2 255.255.255.0 secondary
>> >>
>> >> One way to do this would be to set your neighbor statements within BGP
>> >> to point to each of the primary addresses.  In order to get the peer
>> >> to come up you will need to add "update-source f0/1" for one of the
>> >> neighbor statements.
>> >>
>> >> R1
>> >> router bgp 100
>> >> neighbor 10.1.1.2 remote-as 200
>> >> neighbor 10.1.1.2 update-source f0/1
>> >>
>> >> R2
>> >> router bgp 200
>> >> neighbor 10.0.0.1 remote-as 100
>> >>
>> >> This works well.  Another way would be create a tunnel, assign it some
>> >> addresses and set the peering relationship through it.  While not the
>> >> best solution, it would work.  Probably not a good example, but it one
>> >> that comes to mind.
>> >>
>> >> So I guess the gist of my question is this, if for some reason you
>> >> can't get something to work for you and for what ever reason you can't
>> >> come up with another solution.  In the example above, say for whatever
>> >> reason you just didn't think of using update-source on one of the ends
>> >> and the tunnel was the only way you could get it to work, would this
>> >> be acceptable in the lab.  While obviously not the optimal solution,
>> >> it does work and it doesn't violate any of the rules of the scenario.
>> >> Is it cool to use something like this in the lab?
>> >>
>> >> Like I said, not a big deal, just something that's been bugging me.  I
>> >> have had a couple of instances where I have noticed that you could
>> >> come up with a similar soluton.  Hopefully hs makes sense.
>> >>
>> >> Thanks.
>> >> Cody
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>
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Jigar Dave
>
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