Ok. I just want to clarify something since a couple of people have emailed me off list asking how I think an MCSE is going to help me attain my CCIE. :-)
The short answer is, I don't expect it to help me attain the CCIE. My thought processes on this were varied. Mainly, I know I am nowhere near ready to attempt the lab. So why spend $1250 when I know I am not ready? I did not mean to imply that I am going to stop with Cisco. Quite the contrary. I have a home lab which I intend to continue working on. I also have my job which requires me to keep up with Cisco. But in my job, what I tend to find is there are the server people who know the server end really well. And there are the Network people who know the Infrastructure and the routing equipment really well. But there are not too many people who can troubleshoot from end-to-end. I want to be one of those people. There are also a lot of companies which are migrating to W2K, including the company I am at right now. We have had a lot of issues with this. (Which, of course, keeps getting blamed on the switches!) :-) But that is another story. On another note, I wanted to plug some great resources I found for learning to analyze traffic with a Sniffer. I don't have any vested interest in these books. However, since I have been searching for quite some time for some good reference material for learning sniffer and have had a hard time finding any, I was quite happy when I found these. They are published by http://www.podbooks.com and are written by Laura Chappell. I have the TCP/IP Analysis and Troubleshooting which I bought from Amazon.com for $66. However, I have since found that podbooks sells the set of 4 directly on it's website for $99. So I am probably going to purchase those and slap this one on Ebay. :-) They have really been good at explaining how to analyze a packet trace. I already knew how to do a basic capture, but analysis was another story. I just thought I would mention these in case anyone else out there was in a situation like mine. Stuck in a job that won't pay for training, but wanting to learn packet capture analysis. I had not seen these particular books mentioned previously. Heather Buri Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=24117&t=24099 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
