Just an FYI - I read it carefully - they're a set of 4 e-books plus the bonus stuff on the CD - no paper books included in this set.
-e- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Buri, Heather L." To: Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 1:03 PM Subject: RE: Passed CIT today! Now a CCNP [7:24099] > 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 _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=24181&t=24099 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
