Bridging... DSL is making a comeback in bridging... I have also had to use
it in some routers for a period of time as a workaround
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John Hardman
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Subject: Re: So what SHOULD a CCIE know?
Humm... interesting question.
>From one point of view...
What should be tested (or not tested):
In over 10 years of IT work I have only ran across AppleTalk once, so drop
AppleTalk (which they are doing).
In the same time frame I have only ran across one IPX network that wasn't
either in the process of being converted to 100BaseT or was only being used
in the DC to connect to a Novell server that was a file server which had
it's drives mapped to NT drives. So IPX should take a big back seat to IP.
TR, well personally I like it, but again I have only seen one network with
TR that wasn't planned to be changed to 100BaseT. Come to think of it, they
announced the upgrade a couple of months after I left there. So TR should
also be in the back seat.
Bridging, humm... well in some respects it is rarely used in the networks I
have seen, mostly to get to SNA servers. But then again you had better know
your IRB pretty well with all of the L3 switching that companies are being
sold these days.
L3 switching, better know that pretty well. There are just too many
companies being sold L3 that it had better take a bigger role in the lab.
The R/S written and lab should take on more of the service provider element.
I am not saying that the new SP track should be rolled into the RS track.
But with outsourcing and the Internet with VPN, dial and the like taking a
bigger and bigger role in most companies, better know your ATM, dial, VPN,
BGP, etc, etc. The same can be said for security.
Not having taken the lab, I can not really say as to how IPX, TR, or
bridging is tested. It could be that it is tested as a primary thing and not
as a secondary, e.g. "well looks like we are going to have to deal with that
TR segment over rather we want to or not". The same could be said for ATM,
maybe it should be a primary and not a secondary.
Well there is $0.02 from one point of view, HTH.
--
John Hardman CCNP MCSE+I
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> We've all seen a number of comments about the CCIE written and the CCIE
Lab,
> regarding content. Most of those comments have been negative.
>
> So, what SHOULD be tested? What SHOULD a CCIE know?
>
> Anyone?
>
> Chuck
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