I might have inadvertantly deleted your original email, therefore I copied Denis'
response to reply to you :) I have to laugh at the title of your email. I am not
laughing at you. I am laughing because I once had a Network General instructor who
would begin the class by asking if there were any experts in the room. He would then
proceed to say that no person is an expert, that the Sniffer was the only "expert" in
the room. He went around the classroom to ask why we were in the class. I made the
mistake of saying that I wanted to be the "resident Sniffer expert" at my company.
This was the "wrong" thing to say (LOL).
Back to your question:
Let me first say that I am in no means an expert ;) but here is my 2 cents none the
less:
If you are going to be concentrating on Campus Design then I think that Ccie
Professional Development : Cisco Lan Switching is a very good book. It goes into
pretty exhaustive detail about Campus design issues, technologies and solutions. It
really does not go into Multicast Routing, though.
Yes, I think that the CCDA course materials are very good at illustrating a
comprehensive approach to defining solutions, whereby it covers identifying needs,
collecting the appropriate information, baselining the current network, etc. as well
as what needs the different technologies address. It may be a little outdated (from a
technology perspective) but I think that the priciples are very good (and in my
opinion the principles are not outdated).
I think that the CID course material, may be too broad based in the range of
technologies covered. Don't get me wrong, there is some very good information. I just
think that that the CCDA materials are a more practical starting point.
I agree with Denis. In my opinion, you need to get clearer definition of what exactly
you will be "running with" to be able to "run" with it.
Tom Kager
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