That's what we do in ProctorLabs every day, I'm afraid :-) -- 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 12:30, Jay Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > 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: <%2B1.810.326.1444>+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
