Reboot it until it does. On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 2:59 PM, marc abel <[email protected]> wrote:
> So what do you do when the router can't see the flash? > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Marko Milivojevic <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It's a complaint about R2 in ProctorLabs, which has chronic problem of > > sometimes not booting and requiring either to be initialized or power > cycled > > to do so. > > > > -- > > Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 > > Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert > > > > FREE CCIE training: http://bit.ly/vLecture > > > > Mailto: [email protected] > > Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 > > Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/ > > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 10:19, Liqua <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Congrats - Nice write up, plus you deserve a beer or two after that. > >> > >> Perhaps being dumb (and hope it's not NDA) but what does "had a router > pull > >> an 'R2' on me" mean please ? What's an R2 ? > >> > >> Liqua. > >> > >> --- On Wed, 16/3/11, Jay Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> From: Jay Taylor <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Lab experience > >> To: "CCIE OSL" <[email protected]>, [email protected] > >> Date: Wednesday, 16 March, 2011, 15:41 > >> > >> > >> Pi day (3/14) was good to me; I passed the routing and switching lab to > get > >> my digits! CCIE #28391 > >> > >> I stayed at Comfort Suites this time rather than the Wingate next door > and > >> was happy I switched. Much nicer hotel - cleaner/newer room, better > >> breakfast and free beer from 5-7pm (Mon, Tue and Wed only I think.) They > >> will shuttle you to other nearby places but I didn't ask about the lab. > >> Regardless, I recommend renting a car so you don't have to rely on > someone > >> else on such an important day. > >> > >> Overall I felt my lab this time was more difficult than last time but I > was > >> more prepared. Strange how a day can feel like it is dragging on forever > >> yet > >> going by so quickly at the same time. I felt much more rushed on this > >> attempt and was very aware of the clock throughout the whole day. For my > >> last attempt I also said that I was having fun for about 75% of the day > and > >> that was not the case this time. I had a number of times during the day > >> where I was rather stressed about either mistakes I'd made or not being > >> able > >> to think through the solution I wanted to use. > >> > >> I struggled more with the troubleshooting section this time than before > and > >> ended with only 2-3 minutes to spare (after 1 round of verifying all the > >> tickets at the end.) One good thing about the TS section now is Cisco is > >> VERY clear about what you need to accomplish in order to consider a > ticket > >> solved. Even so, there were a couple tickets that I felt I made too > drastic > >> of changes to fix the problem and wasn't sure if I'd get the points for > >> them. Even though my solution matched the output they wanted I wouldn't > be > >> surprised at all if I missed points on those. > >> > >> Config section was more complicated than my first attempt but there was > >> nothing in there that I had absolutely no idea how to accomplish. There > >> were > >> several topics I needed help from the DocCD and I asked the proctor > quite a > >> few questions again. I got off to a fairly slow start and by lunchtime > >> wasn't even done with IGP config. After lunch it felt like things were > just > >> getting worse as I struggled with a couple sections and started making > some > >> really stupid typos. In the end I had to scrap all my BGP config and > start > >> over due to non-technical mistakes. By then I was freaking out pretty > bad > >> and before starting BGP over I took a bathroom break and tried to > 'reset' > >> myself. I pushed through the rest of the routing config and by the time > I > >> started on services and misc topics I didn't think I had enough time to > >> finish. Somehow I was able to knock all those tasks out in a pretty > short > >> amount of time and still had an hour left to verify. Line by line I went > >> through the entire lab and verified points for each section. In the end > >> there were a couple tasks that I wasn't sure if I'd get points for but > the > >> rest I felt very good about. I did go back and change a few things in > that > >> last hour and had a freak out moment in the last 15 minutes when I > couldn't > >> get something working again that I tried to fix. That last change took > me > >> right up until the last 5 minutes. > >> > >> You hear it all the time from IPexpert instructors and I can't stress > this > >> enough - READ THE ENTIRE LAB BEFORE YOU START. Tasks at the end can have > a > >> big impact on how you do things early on. If you don't read the whole > thing > >> you will likely be rebuilding some of the basics to allow later tasks to > >> work correctly. > >> > >> Two things that stood out to me about my lab day: > >> > >> 1. Had a router pull an 'R2' on me twice throughout the day when I > >> rebooted it. The proctor was clear that this was my problem to fix > even > >> when > >> the router didn't recognize it's flash memory. > >> 2. A task was worded using KB for a function that clearly required > Kb. I > >> asked the proctor a couple times and she insisted that I should > >> configure it > >> as if it requested Kb. I almost started the task by converting bytes > to > >> bits > >> and that would have been completely wrong based on what I was told. > >> After > >> the lab she agreed with me that the lab wording is misleading. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
