This is CCIE mailing list and not a CCNA mailing list. People should do at least little bit home work before asking basic questions.
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 6:34 AM, marc abel <[email protected]> wrote: > Narendra, > > This is a general suggestion based on my own 2 years of studying for the > CCIE. Please take this as constructive criticism. You need to do some > serious reading to gain the knowledge necessary to learn these skills. Your > questions here lack many of the very basic fundementals. Trying to learn > the > basics by asking an expert level mailing list is not the best way to > approach gaining this knowledge for two reasons. > > 1. While many people here are very eager to offer all the help they can, if > you continue to ask basic questions people will soon start to think that > you > are not putting in enough effort to learn on your own and may become less > responsive. > > 2. You will likely get an incomplete picture of how things work, this can > sometimes be worse than not knowing at all. For instance, with your last > question you now know HOW to create a trunk port, but these explanations > don't provide the WHY, and to truly know these topics you must know the > HOW, > the WHY, and the EXCEPTIONS to the rules. This way of learning only the > commands, but not the information about what those commands really do > contributes to some of the biggest holes I see in my peers understanding. > This sometimes makes them dangerous in the network. They know that it is > good to put spanning-tree portfast on access ports so they assume that it > must be a good idea to put that on a trunk port, without knowing the > difference between the two. I myself have been guilty of this type thing in > the past. > > In my opinion you would be best to get some good CCNA/CCNP books and start > reading. When you encounter something in the book that you don't understand > then come here and ask. There are many well written books that can help you > understand these concepts in context with the other considerations. You > will > get a much better understanding all around. If you have a hard time reading > large volumes of text, there are many excellent videos on these topics > including the blending learning solution from IPexpert, however even for > these videos you need some concept of the basics. Videos are great, and > make > an excellent addition to reading. I believe to truly get to CCIE level you > should utilize both as well as many many hours labbing and testing. > > Good Luck, > > -Marc > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Narendra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > yes i have done it > > thanks to all > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Narendra <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > dear prabha > > > i have tried this command its working but my question is this that why > am > > i > > > having to issue this "switchpot trunk encapsulation dot1q" command to > > this > > > layer 3 switch. > > > becoz i have another main layer3 switch it that switch i didnot se this > > > command but it working well. > > > > > > then why am i having to issue this command? any reason > > > > > > Regards > > > Narendra > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:46 PM, prabha ganesan <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Narendra, > > >> > > >> Please try the below configuration. > > >> > > >> switch(config)#int gi 0/1 > > >> switch(config-if)#switchport trunk encapsulation dot1q > > >> switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk > > >> switch(config-if)#exit > > >> > > >> Thanks, > > >> Prabha > > >> > > >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Narendra <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi guys > > >>> > > >>> please help me, i m unable to make a port trunk > > >>> > > >>> Switch(config)#int gi0/1 > > >>> Switch(config-if)#switchport mode trunk > > >>> Command rejected: An interface whose trunk encapsulation is "Auto" > can > > >>> not > > >>> be configured to "trunk" mode. > > >>> > > >>> -- > > >>> Best Regards, > > >>> > > >>> Narendra Prasad > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, > > please > > >>> visit www.ipexpert.com > > >>> > > >> > > >> > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > Narendra Prasad > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Best Regards, > > > > Narendra Prasad > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
