Then those tricks would be documented... Cheers, Matt
CCIE #22386 CCSI #31207 On 18 March 2011 00:50, Judson Bishop <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you please share any of those undocumented tricks. > > Jud > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Mark Hanley <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I had a 7609 last week that did an R2. I watched Cisco fight with it for >> an hour and a half to get it back up.....I learned a couple of >> undocumented tricks during that session :) >> >> >> On 3/17/11 12:49 AM, "Marko Milivojevic" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >Not only him, but countless others. I'll pass this on to our support guys >> >;-) >> > >> >-- >> >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 20:42, Tyson Scott <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >> So we helped jay prepare for the lab >> >> >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> Tyson Scott >> >> CCIE # 13513 (R&S, Security, SP) >> >> Managing Partner/Technical Instructor - IPexpert Inc. >> >> [email protected] >> >> >> >> >> >> ----- Reply message ----- >> >> From: "Marko Milivojevic" <[email protected]> >> >> Date: Wed, Mar 16, 2011 2:11 pm >> >> >> >> Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] Lab experience >> >> To: "Liqua" <[email protected]> >> >> Cc: "CCIE OSL" <[email protected]> >> >> >> >> >> >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
