The Long and Winding Road wrote:
> 
> OR - who / what is over rated?
> 
> I revisited a couple of CCIE Lab preparation books last night. 

Are they really lab prep books? They may just be CCIE level because they
cover advanced concepts not because they cover the nit-picky weirdness that
you might run into in the lab.

You may be one of the few people on the planet that understands all the
things that could go wrong with redistribution! Could you write a white
paper on it? Would you like to write a chapter for my next book? ;-)

Priscilla


> I sat down
> with high hopes, after a frustrating afternoon at the rack. I
> was looking
> for some enlightenment.
> 
> The first book I hit was one of the so called "CCIE Professional
> Development" books. The chapter on PIM  was a mere 28 pages, of
> which a good
> half were charts of various multicast headers. The chapter
> mentions RP, but
> never bothers to explain the concept of RP. CCIE level? More
> like the "idle
> curiousity" level.
> 
> OK, so I go to one of the old standby's, one mentioned in every
> "recommended
> books" list, and get distracted by the chapter on
> redistribution. As I read
> through this chapter I am struck at how rudimentary it is.
> There appears to
> be no real insight here. Distribute-list in and out are glossed
> over. Issues
> with VLSM. to FLSM are covered in a a simplistic manner.
> 
> So my question - for folks who have been to the CCIE Lab once
> or twice, who
> have put in the thousands of hours of reading and configuring,
> what do you
> think when you revisit the classics? Do you think maybe you've
> outgrown
> them?
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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> 
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