Re: CCIE Group in Singapore. [7:12253]

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin Schwantz

David,

Why don't you save money and take the exam in the states? I believe the cost
of you coming here can easily amount to you taking the test twice in the
USA.
As for the flogging, I am not too sure.
 Just make sure you don't bring gum in. Thats a one way ticket to the
slammers.

Kevin

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 Don't worry it's my first too... if you're getting flogged, I be
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 it as well.. ;-)

 Ron

 Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:39:12 -0400
 From: David Schaer
 Subject: Re: CCIE Group in Singapore. [7:12253]

 Kevin,

 If I score too low should I expect to be flogged?

 Dave




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Re: Subject: RE: urgent question related to vtp [7:11687]

2001-07-14 Thread Paul Werner

***VERBOSITY BIT IS SET***

Delete now if you are time challenged. Comments within and 
below.


 I have been struggling with the evil VTP also. ;-) I have a 
few
 questions.
 
 Is VTP required? 

Evil VTP.  I love it.  Yes, for the uninitiated, VTP can 
literally bring down an entire network if you are not careful. 
It has happened. To answer your question above, no it is not 
required in the strictest sense.  Specifically, VTP can be set 
to transparent mode.  You cannot completely turn VTP off, 
because to do so, would necessarily break the protocol's 
operation and segment your network into different VTP domains.

You have a choice of three modes to use.  They are VTP server, 
VTP client, and VTP transparent.  Think of VTP transparent as 
the manual mode and VTP client and VTP server  as semi-
automatic mode.  There is never full automation, because 
somebody still has to pull the trigger (in this case physically 
add, modify, or delete a VLAN).  Officially, Cisco says that 
VTP functions in the following manner:

1.  As a VTP server you can create, modify, and delete VLANs. 
You can also specify other VTP parameters such as VTP version, 
VTP pruning, MD5 password, etc.  You also synchronize your VTP 
information with other VTP servers and clients. It's 
configuration is saved in some form of NVRAM.

2.  As a VTP client, they are the same as the VTP server save 
for the fact that you cannot add, delete or modify VLANs or 
VLAN parameters:-)  You can however synchronize with other VTP 
devices and forward VTP advertisements.  Your VTP configuration 
is not saved in NVRAM.   

3.  A switch using VTP transparent can act just like a VTP 
server.  It can add, modify, and delete VLANs.  It cannot 
however synchronize with other VTP devices.  It must however 
forward all VTP advertisements (lest it break VTP's operation).

Cisco instructions regarding VLANs usually start with 
 having you configure VTP, but do you need VTP? (assume a 
small network
 with 
 few VLANs)

As I mentioned previously, you cannot fully turn it off.  I 
challenge you to do so.  Go ahead and get on the console of 
your IOS based switch.  If it is a CAT 2900XL or a CAT 3500XL, 
go into the vlan database configuration mode.  if you are on an 
almost IOS based Catalyst 1900, go to global config and Type 
the following command:

no vtp transparent

See what happens.  Do a sh vtp and see what mode you are in.  
If it reads VTP server, go back to global config and do a no 
vtp server.  See what happens.  I think you will find that it 
complains just a tad:-)

So, to get to where I think you said you really wanted to go, 
you might want to set your VTP mode to transparent on all of 
your switches.  If all of your switches happens to be 2 
switches, it is no big deal.  If all of your switches is 75 
switches, that might be a little cumbersome.  What will be even 
more cumbersome is when you have to add VLAN 78 to all 75 
switches.  That will be very fun - NOT:-)  That is why VTP was 
created; namely to ease the administration of a large LAN 
switched network.

Here's a design tip.  Have a grand total of two VTP servers in 
any given VTP domain.  One is designated as the primary and the 
other is the secondary.  The primary is always used to 
configure VTP information unless it is down for maintenance.  
While down, the secondary is used, as long as the network did 
no get partitioned with the other switch being down.  Make sure 
that the primary has its configuration revision number set to 
zero prior to entering the VTP domain(more later on this). Once 
the primary comes back up, it should synchronize with the 
secondary.  The primary is then used again for VTP 
configuration.

 
 How does VTP interact with trunks, if at all? 


No Trunk = no VTP advertisements.  Trunking is a mandatory part 
of VTP operation.


I can configure a trunk to
 
 carry traffic for a subset of the VLANs that VTP advertises, 
can't I?

Sure.  You can prune user VLANs from trunks.  Here's the 
catch.  VTP advertisements are carried over the management 
VLAN.  That's not one you would necessarily prune from a trunk. 
In many folks' networks, the management VLAN is VLAN 1.  This 
can be changed if needed for security reasons.


 (not 
 sure why I would want to, but I'm just confirming your point 
that VTP is
 
 misnamed, e.g. it is not a trunking protocol)

In all fairness, they had to give it some name 8-)  Let's see, 
we got this neat protocol that will keep all of the VLANs 
synchronized over the entire network.  Let's call it VSP (VLAN 
synchronization protocol).  That unfortunately doesn't speak to 
the transparent mode which does not synchronize.  Hey, we 
need a trunk to make this thing work.  Whaddya say we call it 
VLAN Trunking Protocol. If nothing else, at least the name will 
remind everybody what to do to make it work (get trunking up) --
 yeah, that's the ticket, we'll call it VTP  I don't know, but 
that could have possibly been a late night naming 

Re: Cisco Certification Digest V2 #1447 (Out of the Office) [7:12356]

2001-07-14 Thread Brent Rhoads

I will be out of the office until 7/30 please call Help Desk for any problems.




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rate-limit(car filter) vs traffic-shape [7:12355]

2001-07-14 Thread Frank Kim

Hi folks,
Can anyone give a good explaination for the above?  Mainly, what's the
difference, and in which case would you use one or the other.  I'm
currently using car-filter now and it works great!  But I'm just curious
if I can make traffic-shape do the same function as rate-limit.  For those
that don't know, these are all interface commands.  Thanks for any help.

-Frank




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Re: catalyst 5000 rebooted [7:12101]

2001-07-14 Thread Arun

hi
i have IOS 4.4(1) running on my catalyst switches here so the command show
Uptime is 11 days, 8 hours, 31 minutes
thats it nothing else i could have checked this dear.
any other suggestions


regardss
Arun sharma


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 Hi

 How about doing a show version  to see the reason of last reboot


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  hi
  we have catalyst 5000 in our organization and last week oneof our
catalyst
  5000 rebooted bu its own ...can anyboby tell me what could be the
 probabale
  cause or where one shoulb be looking for it ...
  how do i start looking for it .Please help
  this reboot has caused the services to be stopped for 15 minutes and it
is
  really big issue for us why it happened ...i think i am totally
stuck
  ..can anybody give a a start .
 
 
  Regards
 
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RE: Subject: RE: urgent question related to vtp [7:11687]

2001-07-14 Thread Charles Manafa

Word up!!! 

-Original Message-
From: Paul Werner
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14/07/01 07:29
Subject: Re: Subject: RE: urgent question related to vtp [7:11687]

***VERBOSITY BIT IS SET***

Delete now if you are time challenged. Comments within and 
below.


 I have been struggling with the evil VTP also. ;-) I have a 
few
 questions.
 
 Is VTP required? 

Evil VTP.  I love it.  Yes, for the uninitiated, VTP can 
literally bring down an entire network if you are not careful. 
It has happened. To answer your question above, no it is not 
required in the strictest sense.  Specifically, VTP can be set 
to transparent mode.  You cannot completely turn VTP off, 
because to do so, would necessarily break the protocol's 
operation and segment your network into different VTP domains.

You have a choice of three modes to use.  They are VTP server, 
VTP client, and VTP transparent.  Think of VTP transparent as 
the manual mode and VTP client and VTP server  as semi-
automatic mode.  There is never full automation, because 
somebody still has to pull the trigger (in this case physically 
add, modify, or delete a VLAN).  Officially, Cisco says that 
VTP functions in the following manner:

1.  As a VTP server you can create, modify, and delete VLANs. 
You can also specify other VTP parameters such as VTP version, 
VTP pruning, MD5 password, etc.  You also synchronize your VTP 
information with other VTP servers and clients. It's 
configuration is saved in some form of NVRAM.

2.  As a VTP client, they are the same as the VTP server save 
for the fact that you cannot add, delete or modify VLANs or 
VLAN parameters:-)  You can however synchronize with other VTP 
devices and forward VTP advertisements.  Your VTP configuration 
is not saved in NVRAM.   

3.  A switch using VTP transparent can act just like a VTP 
server.  It can add, modify, and delete VLANs.  It cannot 
however synchronize with other VTP devices.  It must however 
forward all VTP advertisements (lest it break VTP's operation).

Cisco instructions regarding VLANs usually start with 
 having you configure VTP, but do you need VTP? (assume a 
small network
 with 
 few VLANs)

As I mentioned previously, you cannot fully turn it off.  I 
challenge you to do so.  Go ahead and get on the console of 
your IOS based switch.  If it is a CAT 2900XL or a CAT 3500XL, 
go into the vlan database configuration mode.  if you are on an 
almost IOS based Catalyst 1900, go to global config and Type 
the following command:

no vtp transparent

See what happens.  Do a sh vtp and see what mode you are in.  
If it reads VTP server, go back to global config and do a no 
vtp server.  See what happens.  I think you will find that it 
complains just a tad:-)

So, to get to where I think you said you really wanted to go, 
you might want to set your VTP mode to transparent on all of 
your switches.  If all of your switches happens to be 2 
switches, it is no big deal.  If all of your switches is 75 
switches, that might be a little cumbersome.  What will be even 
more cumbersome is when you have to add VLAN 78 to all 75 
switches.  That will be very fun - NOT:-)  That is why VTP was 
created; namely to ease the administration of a large LAN 
switched network.

Here's a design tip.  Have a grand total of two VTP servers in 
any given VTP domain.  One is designated as the primary and the 
other is the secondary.  The primary is always used to 
configure VTP information unless it is down for maintenance.  
While down, the secondary is used, as long as the network did 
no get partitioned with the other switch being down.  Make sure 
that the primary has its configuration revision number set to 
zero prior to entering the VTP domain(more later on this). Once 
the primary comes back up, it should synchronize with the 
secondary.  The primary is then used again for VTP 
configuration.

 
 How does VTP interact with trunks, if at all? 


No Trunk = no VTP advertisements.  Trunking is a mandatory part 
of VTP operation.


I can configure a trunk to
 
 carry traffic for a subset of the VLANs that VTP advertises, 
can't I?

Sure.  You can prune user VLANs from trunks.  Here's the 
catch.  VTP advertisements are carried over the management 
VLAN.  That's not one you would necessarily prune from a trunk. 
In many folks' networks, the management VLAN is VLAN 1.  This 
can be changed if needed for security reasons.


 (not 
 sure why I would want to, but I'm just confirming your point 
that VTP is
 
 misnamed, e.g. it is not a trunking protocol)

In all fairness, they had to give it some name 8-)  Let's see, 
we got this neat protocol that will keep all of the VLANs 
synchronized over the entire network.  Let's call it VSP (VLAN 
synchronization protocol).  That unfortunately doesn't speak to 
the transparent mode which does not synchronize.  Hey, we 
need a trunk to make this thing work.  Whaddya say we call it 
VLAN Trunking Protocol. If nothing else, at least the name will 
remind 

Book Donation [7:12359]

2001-07-14 Thread Syed Ali

Hello
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please do guide me about something relating to the
subject.If u have some material online like good dumps
, or u wanna donate soom books please do mail me back
, which would certainly be helpful in my preperation
for the exam. If u have some suggestion please do drop
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redundant MSFC synchronization problem [7:12360]

2001-07-14 Thread cisco_fun

Hi,


I am facing a weird problem with the redundant MSFC card.


We have three subnets all configured in a single vlan.192.168.1.0,
192.168.2.0 and 192.168.3.0


The MSFC is running OSPF and the 192.168.0.0 network is being advertised.


If both the MSFC's are enabled ( i.e. module 15 and module 16 are enabled)
one subnet (192.168.2.0) uses MSFC1 as the primary module whereas the other
two subnets (192.168.1.0 and 192.168.3.0) use the MSFC2 as the primary subnet.


If I telnet from the 192.168.3.0 subnet to the MSFC IP then the sh ip
route command displays only the directly connected routes. If I telnet to
the MSFC IP from the other subnets I can view all the OSPF learnt subnets as
well as the directly connected subnets.


If I make any changes in the MSFC1 configuration, the same does not get
replicated in the MSFC2 configuration and viceversa. The IOS version on the
MSFC is 12.0(3) XE2 and the CatOS version on the sup1A is 5.3(2) CSX


The output of the sh fm features command:


MSFC15#sh fm features
Designated MSFC: 1 Non-designated MSFC:2


Redundancy Status: designated   


Any help will be greatly appreciated.


Thanks and Regards ...

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Comment on Boson's v3.83 CCIE Written Practice Test [7:12361]

2001-07-14 Thread Zahid Hassan

Dear All,

Would someone pls. comment on the quality and effectiveness
of  the Boson's v3.83 CCIE Written Practice test ?

Any other relevant study and preparation tips would be much appreciated.

Regards,

Zahid




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Re: CCIE Group in Singapore. [7:12253]

2001-07-14 Thread David Schaer

Kevin,

My ticket on United only ran me $800 RT and scheduling in Singapore cut off
over four months of additional wait time.  To a certain extent, I wonder if
the proctor's reputation is nothing more than an urban legend.
Ultimately, if we know this stuff we should pass, otherwise more power to
him for failling us and sending us packing.

Dave


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 David,

 Why don't you save money and take the exam in the states? I believe the
cost
 of you coming here can easily amount to you taking the test twice in the
 USA.
 As for the flogging, I am not too sure.
  Just make sure you don't bring gum in. Thats a one way ticket to the
 slammers.

 Kevin

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  David,
 
  Don't worry it's my first too... if you're getting flogged, I be
 getting
  it as well.. ;-)
 
  Ron
 
  Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:39:12 -0400
  From: David Schaer
  Subject: Re: CCIE Group in Singapore. [7:12253]
 
  Kevin,
 
  If I score too low should I expect to be flogged?
 
  Dave




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Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread Jaspreet Bhatia

You know what this may mean .This may mean that the days of long 7 month
wait times are
over and we might be able to get lab dates sooner. Comments are invited on
this
prespective.

Raul F. Fernandez wrote:

 It seems very promising. I look forward to taking the lab.

 Raul

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 Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 9:11 PM
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 Subject: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

 Hi All

 Well Cisco has announced their plans...

 http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html

 --
 John Hardman CCNP MCSE




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New format for CCIE exams (written qualification) [7:12364]

2001-07-14 Thread Ray Lovett

Hi Group,

Reading about the changes in store for the CCIE program I have a
question.
The following sentence suggests that the CCIE written exam will change
as
well, that much is clear but what I don't understand is how and when the

written will change. Will the exam still be 100 multiple choice
questions with
a two-hour time limit or will you now have to cable some gear and
produce
an addressing plan/diagram? Also, does the new qualification exam begin
on October 1 as well?

 The new CCIE format will move these basic tasks into an extended
qualification exam and Cisco's other certifications, thus freeing the
candidate's time for the more advanced CCIE skills.

Maybe I'm missing something but I could use a little clarity on this
one.

Thanks,
Ray

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Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread anand ghody

I think this also means that you are going to see the prestige of the
certification
diminish.  Part of the prestige is that only a few people in the world have
the
certification.  If say 80- 85% of people taking the exam pass then
increasing the number
of people taking the exam will increase the amount of people that pass (more
people will
be certified at a faster rate).  Part of the reason CCIE are paid so much is
that there
are so few out there.  From a supply and demand perspective does this not
decrease the
monetary advantage of attaining the certification for the individual. For
Cisco this is
great ( more people being certified in their equipment at a higher level). 
This comes
at an especially opportune time when the competition is beginning to creep
up on them.
What better way to market yourself than to say look at the amount of highly
trained
individuals out there who can support my equipment.

John Hardman wrote:

 Hi All

 Well Cisco has announced their plans...

 http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html

 --
 John Hardman CCNP MCSE




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RE: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread Raul F. Fernandez

I dont believe its going to get any easier from what I understand. Also, it
works your troubleshooting skill throught the Lab. I think this is good. I
dont think you have to worry about the prestige diminishing.

Raul


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anand ghody
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 2:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


I think this also means that you are going to see the prestige of the
certification
diminish.  Part of the prestige is that only a few people in the world have
the
certification.  If say 80- 85% of people taking the exam pass then
increasing the number
of people taking the exam will increase the amount of people that pass (more
people will
be certified at a faster rate).  Part of the reason CCIE are paid so much is
that there
are so few out there.  From a supply and demand perspective does this not
decrease the
monetary advantage of attaining the certification for the individual. For
Cisco this is
great ( more people being certified in their equipment at a higher level).
This comes
at an especially opportune time when the competition is beginning to creep
up on them.
What better way to market yourself than to say look at the amount of highly
trained
individuals out there who can support my equipment.

John Hardman wrote:

 Hi All

 Well Cisco has announced their plans...

 http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html

 --
 John Hardman CCNP MCSE




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L2TP networks [7:12368]

2001-07-14 Thread jakasemboeng

Hi all

Is it possible for L2TP tunneling go through and terminate at different AS ?
Say, I'm in Hongkong and want to connect my branch at Singapore
I dial in to LAC UUnet (AS 700) at Hongkong and terminate l2tp tunnel at
Singapore using Singtel (AS  781).
Thanks for your attention.

Thanks

Jaka




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Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread hal9001

I do not think Cisco wishes to have an exclusive elite of highly paid
individuals which form part of an club.  What Cisco surely wants is a group
of highly certified individuals that can support their products (as per the
comments of another poster). Cisco are not in the business of creating elite
clubs but like all big business making money.  The Certification System and
tracks is there for Cisco to validate their products and systems and to beat
off the competition.  I think that in the future the mere possession of CCIE
will not guarantee riches but a spread of Certifications, Cisco, Microsoft,
Nortel, Checkpointmight.  Work harder you slaves and for more masters!
Having just gone through Windows 2000 I cannot wait for XP.not!

K
- Original Message -
From: Raul F. Fernandez 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 8:07 PM
Subject: RE: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


 I dont believe its going to get any easier from what I understand. Also,
it
 works your troubleshooting skill throught the Lab. I think this is good. I
 dont think you have to worry about the prestige diminishing.

 Raul


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
 anand ghody
 Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 2:31 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


 I think this also means that you are going to see the prestige of the
 certification
 diminish.  Part of the prestige is that only a few people in the world
have
 the
 certification.  If say 80- 85% of people taking the exam pass then
 increasing the number
 of people taking the exam will increase the amount of people that pass
(more
 people will
 be certified at a faster rate).  Part of the reason CCIE are paid so much
is
 that there
 are so few out there.  From a supply and demand perspective does this not
 decrease the
 monetary advantage of attaining the certification for the individual. For
 Cisco this is
 great ( more people being certified in their equipment at a higher level).
 This comes
 at an especially opportune time when the competition is beginning to creep
 up on them.
 What better way to market yourself than to say look at the amount of
highly
 trained
 individuals out there who can support my equipment.

 John Hardman wrote:

  Hi All
 
  Well Cisco has announced their plans...
 
  http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html
 
  --
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Re: L2TP networks [7:12368]

2001-07-14 Thread hal9001

Is their not a problem at the Singapore end with the large Gov. use of
Proxies and weeding out of web content?

K
- Original Message -
From: jakasemboeng 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: L2TP networks [7:12368]


 Hi all

 Is it possible for L2TP tunneling go through and terminate at different AS
?
 Say, I'm in Hongkong and want to connect my branch at Singapore
 I dial in to LAC UUnet (AS 700) at Hongkong and terminate l2tp tunnel at
 Singapore using Singtel (AS  781).
 Thanks for your attention.

 Thanks

 Jaka




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FWD: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread Eric Rogers

Just popped up on alt.cert

angelfire.com/my/no1daylab/new_format.html

let the flames begin...

-- Original Message --
From: hal9001 
Reply-To: hal9001 
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:49:58 -0400

I do not think Cisco wishes to have an exclusive elite of highly paid
individuals which form part of an club.  What Cisco surely wants is a group
of highly certified individuals that can support their products (as per the
comments of another poster). Cisco are not in the business of creating elite
clubs but like all big business making money.  The Certification System and
tracks is there for Cisco to validate their products and systems and to beat
off the competition.  I think that in the future the mere possession of CCIE
will not guarantee riches but a spread of Certifications, Cisco, Microsoft,
Nortel, Checkpointmight.  Work harder you slaves and for more masters!
Having just gone through Windows 2000 I cannot wait for XP.not!

K
- Original Message -
From: Raul F. Fernandez 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 8:07 PM
Subject: RE: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


 I dont believe its going to get any easier from what I understand. Also,
it
 works your troubleshooting skill throught the Lab. I think this is good. I
 dont think you have to worry about the prestige diminishing.

 Raul


 -Original Message-
 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
 anand ghody
 Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 2:31 PM
 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Subject: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


 I think this also means that you are going to see the prestige of the
 certification
 diminish.  Part of the prestige is that only a few people in the world
have
 the
 certification.  If say 80- 85% of people taking the exam pass then
 increasing the number
 of people taking the exam will increase the amount of people that pass
(more
 people will
 be certified at a faster rate).  Part of the reason CCIE are paid so much
is
 that there
 are so few out there.  From a supply and demand perspective does this not
 decrease the
 monetary advantage of attaining the certification for the individual. For
 Cisco this is
 great ( more people being certified in their equipment at a higher level).
 This comes
 at an especially opportune time when the competition is beginning to creep
 up on them.
 What better way to market yourself than to say look at the amount of
highly
 trained
 individuals out there who can support my equipment.

 John Hardman wrote:

  Hi All
 
  Well Cisco has announced their plans...
 
  http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html
 
  --
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Re: L2TP networks [7:12368]

2001-07-14 Thread Shahid Muhammad Shafi

ya i think it is possible because routing in the core
will take care of it.Also u can configure ur LAC and
LNS with diffeent AS numbers with out any problem. 


--- jakasemboeng  wrote:
 Hi all
 
 Is it possible for L2TP tunneling go through and
 terminate at different AS ?
 Say, I'm in Hongkong and want to connect my branch
 at Singapore
 I dial in to LAC UUnet (AS 700) at Hongkong and
 terminate l2tp tunnel at
 Singapore using Singtel (AS  781).
 Thanks for your attention.
 
 Thanks
 
 Jaka
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Re: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread Kevin Wigle

, that's neat.


- Original Message -
From: Eric Rogers 
To: 
Sent: Saturday, 14 July, 2001 16:05
Subject: FWD: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


 Just popped up on alt.cert

 angelfire.com/my/no1daylab/new_format.html

 let the flames begin...

 -- Original Message --
 From: hal9001
 Reply-To: hal9001
 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 15:49:58 -0400

 I do not think Cisco wishes to have an exclusive elite of highly paid
 individuals which form part of an club.  What Cisco surely wants is a
group
 of highly certified individuals that can support their products (as per
the
 comments of another poster). Cisco are not in the business of creating
elite
 clubs but like all big business making money.  The Certification System
and
 tracks is there for Cisco to validate their products and systems and to
beat
 off the competition.  I think that in the future the mere possession of
CCIE
 will not guarantee riches but a spread of Certifications, Cisco,
Microsoft,
 Nortel, Checkpointmight.  Work harder you slaves and for more masters!
 Having just gone through Windows 2000 I cannot wait for XP.not!

 K




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Anyone studying for CCIE in Pittsburgh Area? [7:12374]

2001-07-14 Thread Kim Edward B

Let me know.

Edward
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ISDN Help [7:12365]

2001-07-14 Thread dt

Hi,
I am pretty new so please be patient. I am wearing my flame retardant suit.

I am trying to configure my ISDN BR. I am running a Cisco 804. Everything
connects just fine. I can ping the inside interface on the router, the
outside interface (dialer) which get an IP address from my ISP. I can ping
the interfaces of my nodes on the LAN. I authenticate to the ISP Radius
server. From the router everything seems to resolve just fine but from my
inside network ( I run NAT)  I can only ping the router interfaces. I can
not ping anything beyond my outside interface.

I know I must be missing something basic but I just can't figure it out. Any
help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Dave T

Here is my sh run from the router.

Current configuration:
!
version 12.0
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption
!
hostname backbone_r1
!
enable secret 5 x
enable password 
!
dial-peer voice 1 pots
 no call-waiting
 ring 0
 port 1
 destination-pattern xx
!
pots country US
ip subnet-zero
!
ip domain-name uswest.net
ip name-server 206.196.128.1
isdn switch-type basic-ni
!
!
!
interface Ethernet0
 ip address 172.16.0.2 255.255.0.0
 no ip directed-broadcast
 ip nat inside
!
interface BRI0
 ip address negotiated
 no ip directed-broadcast
 ip nat inside
 encapsulation ppp
 bandwidth 64
 dialer rotary-group 0
 dialer-group 1
 isdn switch-type basic-ni
 isdn spid1 
 isdn spid2 
 isdn incoming-voice modem
!
interface Dialer0
 ip address negotiated
 no ip directed-broadcast
 ip nat inside
 ip rip send version 1
 ip rip receive version 1
 encapsulation ppp
 bandwidth 64
 keepalive 32767
 dialer in-band
 dialer idle-timeout 300
 dialer string 3032541488
 dialer string 3032541186
 dialer hold-queue 10
 dialer load-threshold 10 outbound
 dialer-group 1
 ppp authentication pap callin
 ppp pap sent-username xxx password xxx
 ppp multilink
!
router rip

router rip
 network 10.0.0.0
 network 172.16.0.0
 network 192.168.0.0
!
ip nat inside source list 1 interface BRI0 overload
ip classless
ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Dialer0
!
dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
dialer-list 1 protocol clns permit
dialer-list 1 protocol netbios permit
!
line con 0
 transport input none
 stopbits 1
line vty 0 4
 password
 login
!
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Re: colt link is not working - [7:12352]

2001-07-14 Thread MariaD

My colleague sent Cisco an email asking where the link had gone-
Cisco advised that we should go elsewhere for training/certification links
and PAY for the practice questions.
The COLT questions have been permanently taken off the website for CCO
users.
I believe only Cisco employees can use it.


HTH,

Alana



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 because the previous URL
 http://www.cisco.com/cgi-bin/front.x/wwtraining/colt/ColtLogin.pl

 is not working. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
 Thanks
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Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread John Neiberger

I was *so* worried about taking this test.  I had been hearing from numerous
people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for the last two weeks. 
Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing that there were going to
be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB, LANE, NAT, Policy
Routing, Redistribution, etc.

Well, the worrying was for nothing.  I passed with a 92%!  However, I think
that's because I was overprepared for the specific questions I received.  I
know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so questions, but I think I
got about 80 of the easy ones.  

Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge was required to take the
CCNP tests.  For many of the topics I listed above, I didn't receive a
single question! What gives??  

With that said, some of the questions were difficult, but only because they
were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it was tough to guess. 
The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions were very basic.  Anyone
with a solid introduction to them and a good memory would be able to ace all
of those topics.

A few months ago I got a subscription to CertificationZone and I'm very glad
I did.  I found the real test to be much easier than their practice tests. 
If you get a subscription and can pass three or four of those exams, you're
probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty of the real exam.  But
that's a good thing!  That just means that you'll be very prepared.

I may have just gotten lucky with the questions, though.  I don't want to
make it sound easy, it wasn't.  The particular questions just weren't as
difficult as I was planning for.  I was expecting WWIII and got a minor
border skirmish with a small third-world country.  :-)

I guess that's why they call this a qualification exam.  The exceptionally
super hard part is yet to come.  

I see that they've announced the new lab format and now I'm wondering if I
should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the two-day version in March
of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st and possibly get the
one-day version sooner?  Hmm... food for thought.

Thanks to all who have helped me so far!  (Howard, Priscilla, Chuck, Pamela,
Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting at the moment)

I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then sleep for the rest of
the weekend!

Regards,
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Re: redundant MSFC synchronization problem [7:12360]

2001-07-14 Thread cisco skin

You need at least 12.1(3a)E4 for high availabilty on the MSFC's.

http://www.cisco.com/warp/customer/cc/pd/si/casi/ca6000/tech/hafc6_wp.htm

Jeff

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 Hi,


 I am facing a weird problem with the redundant MSFC card.


 We have three subnets all configured in a single vlan.192.168.1.0,
 192.168.2.0 and 192.168.3.0


 The MSFC is running OSPF and the 192.168.0.0 network is being advertised.


 If both the MSFC's are enabled ( i.e. module 15 and module 16 are enabled)
 one subnet (192.168.2.0) uses MSFC1 as the primary module whereas the
other
 two subnets (192.168.1.0 and 192.168.3.0) use the MSFC2 as the primary
subnet.


 If I telnet from the 192.168.3.0 subnet to the MSFC IP then the sh ip
 route command displays only the directly connected routes. If I telnet to
 the MSFC IP from the other subnets I can view all the OSPF learnt subnets
as
 well as the directly connected subnets.


 If I make any changes in the MSFC1 configuration, the same does not get
 replicated in the MSFC2 configuration and viceversa. The IOS version on
the
 MSFC is 12.0(3) XE2 and the CatOS version on the sup1A is 5.3(2) CSX


 The output of the sh fm features command:


 MSFC15#sh fm features
 Designated MSFC: 1 Non-designated MSFC:2


 Redundancy Status: designated


 Any help will be greatly appreciated.


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RE: New format for CCIE exams (written qualification) [7:12364]

2001-07-14 Thread Dennis Laganiere

Here is my advice to anyone who is even considering the CCIE track in the
near future:

The current exam is fairly well document; there are books, papers, websites,
and of course, the boson exams.  The new exam is just that, a new exam full
of unknowns.  I'm sure it too will become well researched, but for the first
six months everyone is going to be in uncharted waters with no map to get to
shore.  As someone who took the CCNP exams when they were first offered, I
know what it's like to sail without a map, trust me.

In its statement Cisco says that those who pass the existing exam will not
be required to redo the written.

If I were even planning to jump on the written in the next year, my
recommendation would be to take advantage of this time window to cram my
brain full and take the current exam while you can. There should be plenty
of time to take a hack at this before the beta exam period finished on the
new test.  If you need help finding the right materials to study; just look
in the archives.

Grab a couple of the study guides, buy the notes from ccbootcamp, download
the bosons, and absolutely analyze the archives of this group like it's the
Rosetta stone.

Just my $.02



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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: New format for CCIE exams (written qualification) [7:12364]


Hi Group,

Reading about the changes in store for the CCIE program I have a
question.
The following sentence suggests that the CCIE written exam will change
as
well, that much is clear but what I don't understand is how and when the

written will change. Will the exam still be 100 multiple choice
questions with
a two-hour time limit or will you now have to cable some gear and
produce
an addressing plan/diagram? Also, does the new qualification exam begin
on October 1 as well?

 The new CCIE format will move these basic tasks into an extended
qualification exam and Cisco's other certifications, thus freeing the
candidate's time for the more advanced CCIE skills.

Maybe I'm missing something but I could use a little clarity on this
one.

Thanks,
Ray

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RE: OSPF - Cool + an area question [7:11861]

2001-07-14 Thread Symon Thurlow

from a coolness perspective, I agree!

I just got my lab going for the first time, configured basic eigrp and
started looking at what is going on. It's fun!

Symon

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Subject: OSPF - Cool + an area question [7:11861]


This is cool!

I just love to read about a lot of boring stuff in a book, sit down and try
it, and then find out that everything I just read was actually true, and
that it makes perfect sense.

I just took three of my routers and one by one enabled OSPF on one interface
at a time, and after each configuration, I went ahead and did a 'show ip
ospf int' to see what actually was going on, and was happy to see that it
was what I had expected to happen, because I had just read about it in my
book.

That's the fun part of studying - I wish that would have been the same case
with all the M$ stuff I studied years ago :-(

Anyway, I do have one OSPF question to those of you who have been out there
messing with it many times:

What's the most common/practical method when designing the OSPF network. Is
it to give the area a single decimal value (n), or one that matches and/or
looks like an IP address (a.b.c.d), which could be the same as the network?

Also, what method does Cisco prefer if any over the other?

Thanks for comments on this,

Ole

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IGX 8400 [7:12383]

2001-07-14 Thread zee k

Hi all,
Could you please post links to good Cisco IGX presnetation material or
technology overview. I mean easy learning and general. Its very important,
cisco website is no help.
Thanks a million


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Re: dialer idle-timeout [7:12256]

2001-07-14 Thread Erick B.

The traffic that matches the dialer-list defined
initates the call and also causes idle timer to get
reset. If the idle timer got reset for any traffic
(interesting and uninteresting) then if the
interesting traffic went away but other traffic
existed then the uninteresting traffic would keep line
up. Depending on how the ISDN is billed this could
cause the bill to be higher, etc. 

--- Burnham, Chris 
wrote:
 I am currently working throught the Caslow ,
 Pavlichenko Cisco
 Certification Book I have a query on page 163 that
 you guy's and girl's
 maybe able to help me with.
 
 It states that the DDR connection is maintained as
 long as interesting
 traffic is transferred over the connection before
 the dialer-idle-timeout
 occurs.?
 
 Is this correct?? I was alway's under the impression
 that the interesting
 traffic only determined what brought up the link 
 once the link was up it
 would stay up regardless of traffic type crossing
 the ISDN link
 
 I would like to hear your opinions
 
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Re: IGX 8400 [7:12383]

2001-07-14 Thread Dennis Bailey

check these out--

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/ig8400/

http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/cc/pd/si/ig8400/prodlit/index.shtml


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 Could you please post links to good Cisco IGX presnetation material or
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RE: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread Chuck Larrieu

I don't suppose any of you geeks on this list have ever studied any
economics? ;-

The laws of supply and demand are still in effect.  Consider:

1) there are tens of thousands of us wannabees in the pipeline, drawn
because of the anticipated salaries and other benefits the certification
permits. lab format change or no, how many CCIE's will there be in five
years, given current award rates? by my estimate well over 12,000.

2) there are powerful business advantages to consulting firms with enough
CCIE's on staff to meet the highest Cisco Partner level.

3) it has been difficult for companies to obtain and / or retain CCIE's

4) it is expensive to set up and run testing facilities. in times of
economic slowdown, particularly for a company whose stock has lost 75% of
its value in the last year, Cisco management has other priorities.

5) Cisco is a marketing company first and foremost. Their sole interest is
in selling product

6) Cisco is under pressure from its channel to do something to help the
channel obtain the highest partnership status.

7) the dirty unspoken truth is that everyone - Cisco, the channel partners,
customers - want something to happen to limit the salaries CCIE's currently
demand. The only way that can happen is if there is a surplus of CCIE's in
the marketplace. CCIE's and CCIE candidates, of course, hope otherwise.

There is nothing that can be done to stop this train. thousands in the
pipeline. thousands want their turn on the gravy train. the situation has
occurred because of a shortage of skilled labor. supply and demand. salaries
rose. with thousands drawn into the game, salaries will level out, or even
decline.

when I was in high school, the gospel of the day was that a college degree
was the ticket to the good life. by the time I got my degree, it was not
unheard of to find ads for people with college degrees who could lift 50
pounds.

one last comment to end this long and ponderous post. I'm one of those whose
next lab attempt will be the one day format. so when I pass I will be one of
the CCIE with the *. NOT. the CCIE will remain as valuable as the person who
wears it. Mr. Employer - mediocre employees are a dime a dozen. Outstanding
employees are invaluable. In the end, it is your skill set, your
comportment, your insight, and the value you bring to a situation that gives
value. Not a 2 day versus a 1 day lab.

best wishes to everyone in their journey to the top.

Chuck


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Subject: Re: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]


I think this also means that you are going to see the prestige of the
certification
diminish.  Part of the prestige is that only a few people in the world have
the
certification.  If say 80- 85% of people taking the exam pass then
increasing the number
of people taking the exam will increase the amount of people that pass (more
people will
be certified at a faster rate).  Part of the reason CCIE are paid so much is
that there
are so few out there.  From a supply and demand perspective does this not
decrease the
monetary advantage of attaining the certification for the individual. For
Cisco this is
great ( more people being certified in their equipment at a higher level).
This comes
at an especially opportune time when the competition is beginning to creep
up on them.
What better way to market yourself than to say look at the amount of highly
trained
individuals out there who can support my equipment.

John Hardman wrote:

 Hi All

 Well Cisco has announced their plans...

 http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html

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Re: ISDN Help [7:12365]

2001-07-14 Thread Neil Schneider

After a quick look it appears that your BRI0 interface (and dialer0?)
should be set as ip nat outside, not inside.

Neil Schneider


dt  wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
 Hi,
 I am pretty new so please be patient. I am wearing my flame retardant
suit.

 I am trying to configure my ISDN BR. I am running a Cisco 804. Everything
 connects just fine. I can ping the inside interface on the router, the
 outside interface (dialer) which get an IP address from my ISP. I can ping
 the interfaces of my nodes on the LAN. I authenticate to the ISP Radius
 server. From the router everything seems to resolve just fine but from my
 inside network ( I run NAT)  I can only ping the router interfaces. I can
 not ping anything beyond my outside interface.

 I know I must be missing something basic but I just can't figure it out.
Any
 help will be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks

 Dave T

 Here is my sh run from the router.

 Current configuration:
 !
 version 12.0
 no service pad
 service timestamps debug uptime
 service timestamps log uptime
 no service password-encryption
 !
 hostname backbone_r1
 !
 enable secret 5 x
 enable password 
 !
 dial-peer voice 1 pots
  no call-waiting
  ring 0
  port 1
  destination-pattern xx
 !
 pots country US
 ip subnet-zero
 !
 ip domain-name uswest.net
 ip name-server 206.196.128.1
 isdn switch-type basic-ni
 !
 !
 !
 interface Ethernet0
  ip address 172.16.0.2 255.255.0.0
  no ip directed-broadcast
  ip nat inside
 !
 interface BRI0
  ip address negotiated
  no ip directed-broadcast
  ip nat inside
  encapsulation ppp
  bandwidth 64
  dialer rotary-group 0
  dialer-group 1
  isdn switch-type basic-ni
  isdn spid1 
  isdn spid2 
  isdn incoming-voice modem
 !
 interface Dialer0
  ip address negotiated
  no ip directed-broadcast
  ip nat inside
  ip rip send version 1
  ip rip receive version 1
  encapsulation ppp
  bandwidth 64
  keepalive 32767
  dialer in-band
  dialer idle-timeout 300
  dialer string 3032541488
  dialer string 3032541186
  dialer hold-queue 10
  dialer load-threshold 10 outbound
  dialer-group 1
  ppp authentication pap callin
  ppp pap sent-username xxx password xxx
  ppp multilink
 !
 router rip

 router rip
  network 10.0.0.0
  network 172.16.0.0
  network 192.168.0.0
 !
 ip nat inside source list 1 interface BRI0 overload
 ip classless
 ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Dialer0
 !
 dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
 dialer-list 1 protocol clns permit
 dialer-list 1 protocol netbios permit
 !
 line con 0
  transport input none
  stopbits 1
 line vty 0 4
  password
  login
 !
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Re: ISDN Help [7:12365]

2001-07-14 Thread Dennis Bailey

This happened to me once and turning off fast switching on the BRI interface
made it work.  command is 'no ip route-cache'.  I am not sure if that will
solve your problem but give it a shot.

I also notice that you are routing for network 10.0.0.0 and 192.168.0.0 but
do not see any interfaces in those networks.  You can probably remove those
from the config.

On your dialer-list, unless you want the line to stay up all the time, you
may want to narrow your definition of interesting traffic.

HTH-Dennis
dt  wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
 Hi,
 I am pretty new so please be patient. I am wearing my flame retardant
suit.

 I am trying to configure my ISDN BR. I am running a Cisco 804. Everything
 connects just fine. I can ping the inside interface on the router, the
 outside interface (dialer) which get an IP address from my ISP. I can ping
 the interfaces of my nodes on the LAN. I authenticate to the ISP Radius
 server. From the router everything seems to resolve just fine but from my
 inside network ( I run NAT)  I can only ping the router interfaces. I can
 not ping anything beyond my outside interface.

 I know I must be missing something basic but I just can't figure it out.
Any
 help will be greatly appreciated.

 Thanks

 Dave T

 Here is my sh run from the router.

 Current configuration:
 !
 version 12.0
 no service pad
 service timestamps debug uptime
 service timestamps log uptime
 no service password-encryption
 !
 hostname backbone_r1
 !
 enable secret 5 x
 enable password 
 !
 dial-peer voice 1 pots
  no call-waiting
  ring 0
  port 1
  destination-pattern xx
 !
 pots country US
 ip subnet-zero
 !
 ip domain-name uswest.net
 ip name-server 206.196.128.1
 isdn switch-type basic-ni
 !
 !
 !
 interface Ethernet0
  ip address 172.16.0.2 255.255.0.0
  no ip directed-broadcast
  ip nat inside
 !
 interface BRI0
  ip address negotiated
  no ip directed-broadcast
  ip nat inside
  encapsulation ppp
  bandwidth 64
  dialer rotary-group 0
  dialer-group 1
  isdn switch-type basic-ni
  isdn spid1 
  isdn spid2 
  isdn incoming-voice modem
 !
 interface Dialer0
  ip address negotiated
  no ip directed-broadcast
  ip nat inside
  ip rip send version 1
  ip rip receive version 1
  encapsulation ppp
  bandwidth 64
  keepalive 32767
  dialer in-band
  dialer idle-timeout 300
  dialer string 3032541488
  dialer string 3032541186
  dialer hold-queue 10
  dialer load-threshold 10 outbound
  dialer-group 1
  ppp authentication pap callin
  ppp pap sent-username xxx password xxx
  ppp multilink
 !
 router rip

 router rip
  network 10.0.0.0
  network 172.16.0.0
  network 192.168.0.0
 !
 ip nat inside source list 1 interface BRI0 overload
 ip classless
 ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 Dialer0
 !
 dialer-list 1 protocol ip permit
 dialer-list 1 protocol clns permit
 dialer-list 1 protocol netbios permit
 !
 line con 0
  transport input none
  stopbits 1
 line vty 0 4
  password
  login
 !
 end




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Re: Subject: RE: urgent question related to vtp [7:11687]

2001-07-14 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer

Thanks, Paul!

OK, I don't really think VTP is evil. I can definitely understand the 
problem that it solves.

I have it working now. I have one switch set to client and one set to 
server, which works fine. I didn't think I could use client on a Cat 1900 
because the documentation says you can't configure client.

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/lan/28201900/1928v9x/ee_scg/1vlans.htm#xtocid288056


 
  vtp trunk pruning-disable 10 50

I think the effect of this was to have only VLAN1 span both
switches.

The effect is that Pruning of 10 and 50 are Disabled so that they DO span 
the trunk. They should have been spanning it anyway, though.

  Somehow, I am still wondering if you got a trunk
established.

Yes I had a trunk. Show trunk a said it was on and using ISL.

Once the network was stable I was able to remove the command and all is 
working, so now so I'm not sure it really was the problem. But, there was 
something funny going on, that's for sure. I couldn't see multicasts with 
my Sniffer on the monitor port either and now I can.

Regarding VLAN 1, I have one more question. If you give a switch an IP 
address, that address is part of VLAN 1, right? The problem with that is 
that you may not have any other ports that are part of VLAN 1, since VLAN 1 
is the management VLAN generally. So how do you ping or SNMP the switch 
then? What is considered best practice for this?

Thanks again. I walked into this thinking, what could be so hard about 
configuring data-link-layer devices? Hah! Clark and Hamilton devote 900 
pages to it! ;-) It took me a whole day to get two switches, VLANs, DISL, 
VTP, trunking, STP, and load sharing working correctly. Give me a router 
any day! ;-) Seriously, I think my problems all started with not using VTP 
correctly from the start. Thanks for all the advice on it.

Priscilla




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RE: I want HP Openview [7:12298]

2001-07-14 Thread Tim Medley

You might try the HP Openview Website, under See.Try.Buy There used to
be a downloadable eval of Network Node Manager.
http://www.openview.hp.com

enjoy


Tim Medley - CCNP+Voice
Network Architect
VoIP Group
iReadyWorld



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Does anybody know where I can download a free versiion of HP OPenview. I
have
never used it, but I want to start getting experience. Thanks.

Mark




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NP-2T Serial Card For 4000 series router for sale!! Cheap! [7:12389]

2001-07-14 Thread JC

Hello,

I have an NP-2T Serial Card for sale (2 Serial Ports), it is an add-on
card available for the 4000, 4500, and 4700 series of Cisco routers.  I will
sell it for $100.00.  If you are interested please e-mail me at:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I just wanted to give everyone a shot at it before I place it on ebay.
I handle all my payments through Paypal, so if your interested please
contact me.


Thanks,

JC




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2 Port Serial Card For Sale (4000 series) Cheap! [7:12390]

2001-07-14 Thread JC

Hello,

I have an NP-2T Serial Card for sale (2 Serial Ports), it is an add-on
card available for the 4000, 4500, and 4700 series of Cisco routers.  I will
sell it for $100.00.  If you are interested please e-mail me at:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I just wanted to give everyone a shot at it before I place it on ebay.
I handle all my payments through Paypal, so if your interested please
contact me.


Thanks,

JC




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Re: Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread EA LOUIE

Hearty congrats, John... go have a few brew-ski's and relax (let your wife
drive, of course  :-) ...that's a great score, and you'll have your
opportunity (just like the rest of us) to do your lab soon enough!

-e-


John Neiberger  wrote:
 I was *so* worried about taking this test.  I had been hearing from
numerous
 people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for the last two weeks. 
 Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing that there were going
to
 be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB, LANE, NAT, Policy
 Routing, Redistribution, etc.
 
 Well, the worrying was for nothing.  I passed with a 92%!  However, I think
 that's because I was overprepared for the specific questions I received.  I
 know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so questions, but I think I
 got about 80 of the easy ones.  
 
 Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge was required to take the
 CCNP tests.  For many of the topics I listed above, I didn't receive a
 single question! What gives??  
 
 With that said, some of the questions were difficult, but only because they
 were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it was tough to guess. 
 The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions were very basic.  Anyone
 with a solid introduction to them and a good memory would be able to ace
all
 of those topics.
 
 A few months ago I got a subscription to CertificationZone and I'm very
glad
 I did.  I found the real test to be much easier than their practice tests. 
 If you get a subscription and can pass three or four of those exams, you're
 probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty of the real exam.  But
 that's a good thing!  That just means that you'll be very prepared.
 
 I may have just gotten lucky with the questions, though.  I don't want to
 make it sound easy, it wasn't.  The particular questions just weren't as
 difficult as I was planning for.  I was expecting WWIII and got a minor
 border skirmish with a small third-world country.  :-)
 
 I guess that's why they call this a qualification exam.  The exceptionally
 super hard part is yet to come.  
 
 I see that they've announced the new lab format and now I'm wondering if I
 should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the two-day version in March
 of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st and possibly get the
 one-day version sooner?  Hmm... food for thought.
 
 Thanks to all who have helped me so far!  (Howard, Priscilla, Chuck,
Pamela,
 Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting at the moment)
 
 I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then sleep for the rest of
 the weekend!
 
 Regards,
 John
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread Jaspreet Bhatia

John,
   Heartiest Conngratulations to you !! Wish you all the
best for the
Real Challenge.. Wish me luck too  as I am taking the written in two weeks
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Re: Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread Anand Ghody

John,
I totally agree with you about more in-depth questions being asked on
the CCNP
exams.  I also recently completed both (CCNP, CCIE written) and was
surprised and
disappointed at the lack of depth in the questions I was asked on the
Written exam.  I
think if you read the intro/overview technology stuff on the cisco website
you are well
on your way to passing the written.

John Neiberger wrote:

 I was *so* worried about taking this test.  I had been hearing from
numerous
 people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for the last two weeks.
 Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing that there were going
to
 be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB, LANE, NAT, Policy
 Routing, Redistribution, etc.

 Well, the worrying was for nothing.  I passed with a 92%!  However, I think
 that's because I was overprepared for the specific questions I received.  I
 know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so questions, but I think I
 got about 80 of the easy ones.

 Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge was required to take the
 CCNP tests.  For many of the topics I listed above, I didn't receive a
 single question! What gives??

 With that said, some of the questions were difficult, but only because they
 were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it was tough to guess.
 The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions were very basic.  Anyone
 with a solid introduction to them and a good memory would be able to ace
all
 of those topics.

 A few months ago I got a subscription to CertificationZone and I'm very
glad
 I did.  I found the real test to be much easier than their practice tests.
 If you get a subscription and can pass three or four of those exams, you're
 probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty of the real exam.  But
 that's a good thing!  That just means that you'll be very prepared.

 I may have just gotten lucky with the questions, though.  I don't want to
 make it sound easy, it wasn't.  The particular questions just weren't as
 difficult as I was planning for.  I was expecting WWIII and got a minor
 border skirmish with a small third-world country.  :-)

 I guess that's why they call this a qualification exam.  The exceptionally
 super hard part is yet to come.

 I see that they've announced the new lab format and now I'm wondering if I
 should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the two-day version in March
 of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st and possibly get the
 one-day version sooner?  Hmm... food for thought.

 Thanks to all who have helped me so far!  (Howard, Priscilla, Chuck,
Pamela,
 Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting at the moment)

 I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then sleep for the rest of
 the weekend!

 Regards,
 John

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Re: Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread Ryan O'Reilly

Hi,

First, way to go, sounds like you worked hard! You Deserve it.

How much time did any of you take to study for the CCIE written after
passing the CCNP exams?

Do you have any other advice for those of us going taking baby steps from
CCNP studies to the CCIE written? (My co-workers say I should just take the
written but the instant gratification of passing the CCNP exams keeps me
motivated!)

I plan to finish my CCNP/DP before September and then take 2.5 months of
studying for the written I'll take in Mid-December. I hope it's good enough
to score at least over 80%, but wow, 90% is something to be really proud
about. Congrats again.

 - Ryan


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Re: L2TP networks [7:12368]

2001-07-14 Thread Ryan O'Reilly

Hi,

The tunnel endpoints are just normal IP addresses, UDP/IP L2TP tunnels are
also routed as normal IP traffic. If you can ping across the network, you
should be able to configure a working tunnel.

Hope it helps, 

 - Ryan 


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RE: New format for CCIE exams (written qualification) [7:12364]

2001-07-14 Thread Ryan O'Reilly

Hello,

The latest step in this process has resulted in a format change to both the
CCIE qualification and lab exams.

They didn't clarify at all about changes to the Qualification exam. =( I'm
planning on taking this in December - I hope the changes aren't that drastic
or at least well documented by then.

Or else that money I'm saving from lost productivity will go to Written exam
retakes. =(

Anybody know what changes are in store for the Written?

 - Ryan


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RE: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]

2001-07-14 Thread Nigel Taylor

Chuck,

Thank you for another well put response.  One good we can all
ask ourselves now is  
In the end, does my skill set, comportment, and insight, bring to a
situation the value a CCIE should project/display.

Nigel..

From: Chuck Larrieu Reply-To: Chuck Larrieu To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: FYI CCIE Changes announced [7:12345]
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 19:58:41 -0400  I don't suppose any of you
geeks on this list have ever studied any economics? ;-  The laws of
supply and demand are still in effect. Consider:  1) there are tens of
thousands of us wannabees in the pipeline, drawn because of the
anticipated salaries and other benefits the certification permits. lab
format change or no, how many CCIE's will there be in five years, given
current award rates? by my estimate well over 12,000.  2) there are
powerful business advantages to consulting firms with enough CCIE's on
staff to meet the highest Cisco Partner level.  3) it has been
difficult for companies to obtain and / or retain CCIE's  4) it is
expensive to set up and run testing facilities. in times of economic
slowdown, particularly for a company whose stock has lost 75% of its
value in the last year, Cisco management has other priorities.  5)
Cisco is a marketing company first and foremost. Their sole interest is
in selling product  6) Cisco is under pressure from its channel to do
something to help the channel obtain the highest partnership status. 
7) the dirty unspoken truth is that everyone - Cisco, the channel
partners, customers - want something to happen to limit the salaries
CCIE's currently demand. The only way that can happen is if there is a
surplus of CCIE's in the marketplace. CCIE's and CCIE candidates, of
course, hope otherwise.  There is nothing that can be done to stop this
train. thousands in the pipeline. thousands want their turn on the gravy
train. the situation has occurred because of a shortage of skilled
labor. supply and demand. salaries rose. with thousands drawn into the
game, salaries will level out, or even decline.  when I was in high
school, the gospel of the day was that a college degree was the ticket
to the good life. by the time I got my degree, it was not unheard of to
find ads for people with college degrees who could lift 50 pounds. 
one last comment to end this long and ponderous post. I'm one of those
whose next lab attempt will be the one day format. so when I pass I will
be one of the CCIE with the *. NOT. the CCIE will remain as valuable as
the person who wears it. Mr. Employer - mediocre employees are a dime a
dozen. Outstanding employees are invaluable. In the end, it is your
skill set, your comportment, your insight, and the value you bring to a
situation that gives value. Not a 2 day versus a 1 day lab.  best
wishes to everyone in their journey to the top.  Chuck  
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Changes announced [7:12345]   I think this also means that you are
going to see the prestige of the certification diminish. Part of the
prestige is that only a few people in the world have the certification.
If say 80- 85% of people taking the exam pass then increasing the number
of people taking the exam will increase the amount of people that pass
(more people will be certified at a faster rate). Part of the reason
CCIE are paid so much is that there are so few out there. From a supply
and demand perspective does this not decrease the monetary advantage of
attaining the certification for the individual. For Cisco this is great
( more people being certified in their equipment at a higher level).
This comes at an especially opportune time when the competition is
beginning to creep up on them. What better way to market yourself than
to say look at the amount of highly trained individuals out there who
can support my equipment.  John Hardman wrote:Hi All
Well Cisco has announced their plans...
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/625/ccie/ccie_program/whatsnew.html  
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Re: Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread John Neiberger

I used a *bunch* of books to study for this, as well as a lot of material
from CCO.  Here are some of the books I used, in no particular order:

Routing TCP/IP by Jeff Doyle

Internet Routing Architectures by Sam Halabi

Bridges, Routers, and Switches by Caslow

Cisco LAN Switch Configuration by Sybex

Building Cisco Multilayer Switching Networks from Mcgraw Hill

Building Cisco Remote Access Networks from Mcgraw Hill

CCIE Written Study Guide from Sybex

CiscoPress Building Scalable Cisco Networks

CiscoPress Wide Area Network Solutions

CiscoPress Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting

Cisco Security Architectures

CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Cram, which i thought was worthless but in
hindsight it probably covered most of the test.

Add to that list a *lot* of material from CCO, reading through Groupstudy
archives, and a subscription to CertificationZone, which was instrumental in
my passing the test.

Is that enough?  ;-)

Good luck!

John

|  hi John,
|  congratulations on your success in this exam.It's no
|  been only you who rates this exam to be very tough.I
|  do too and infact i have to tell you that i'ld be
|  taking the exam in 3 weeks.Could you please tell me
|  what materials books ++ you used to crush this
|  exam.I'ld appreciate it.
|  Thanks
|  
|  chika
|  
|  --- John Neiberger  wrote:
|   I was *so* worried about taking this test.  I had
|   been hearing from numerous
|   people how hard it was so I did nothing but cram for
|   the last two weeks. 
|   Even after that I still did not feel ready, knowing
|   that there were going to
|   be numerous questions on ATM, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, SRB,
|   LANE, NAT, Policy
|   Routing, Redistribution, etc.
|   
|   Well, the worrying was for nothing.  I passed with a
|   92%!  However, I think
|   that's because I was overprepared for the specific
|   questions I received.  I
|   know that each test pulls from a pool of 300 or so
|   questions, but I think I
|   got about 80 of the easy ones.  
|   
|   Seriously, I thought that more in-depth knowledge
|   was required to take the
|   CCNP tests.  For many of the topics I listed above,
|   I didn't receive a
|   single question! What gives??  
|   
|   With that said, some of the questions were
|   difficult, but only because they
|   were the sort that if you didn't already know it, it
|   was tough to guess. 
|   The SRB, token ring, OSPF, BGP, and LANE questions
|   were very basic.  Anyone
|   with a solid introduction to them and a good memory
|   would be able to ace all
|   of those topics.
|   
|   A few months ago I got a subscription to
|   CertificationZone and I'm very glad
|   I did.  I found the real test to be much easier than
|   their practice tests. 
|   If you get a subscription and can pass three or four
|   of those exams, you're
|   probably going to be disappointed in the difficulty
|   of the real exam.  But
|   that's a good thing!  That just means that you'll be
|   very prepared.
|   
|   I may have just gotten lucky with the questions,
|   though.  I don't want to
|   make it sound easy, it wasn't.  The particular
|   questions just weren't as
|   difficult as I was planning for.  I was expecting
|   WWIII and got a minor
|   border skirmish with a small third-world country. 
|   :-)
|   
|   I guess that's why they call this a qualification
|   exam.  The exceptionally
|   super hard part is yet to come.  
|   
|   I see that they've announced the new lab format and
|   now I'm wondering if I
|   should schedule the lab now and plan on taking the
|   two-day version in March
|   of 2002 or so, or should I wait until after Oct. 1st
|   and possibly get the
|   one-day version sooner?  Hmm... food for thought.
|   
|   Thanks to all who have helped me so far!  (Howard,
|   Priscilla, Chuck, Pamela,
|   Stogieman, Peter, and everyone else I'm forgetting
|   at the moment)
|   
|   I'm now going to go eat dinner with my wife and then
|   sleep for the rest of
|   the weekend!
|   
|   Regards,
|   John
|   
|   
|   
|   
|   
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Re: Passed CCIE Written! [7:12377]

2001-07-14 Thread John Neiberger

Thanks for the congrats, I appreciate it.

If I remember correctly, I finished up CCNP in March and CCDP in April.  In
hindsight, one month of studying would have been plenty to prepare for the
written.  It covers (potentially) more material than the CCNP/DP tests, but
I don't think the questions were more difficult.

To use an analogy, I feel that the CCNP/DP tests were a mile wide and an
inch deep.  The CCIE written is 1.5 miles wide and 2 inches deep, but I
prepared as if it were going to be 2 miles wide and 100 yards deep. 
However, all of that preparation was not for naught.  It will come in *very*
handy in the lab, I'm sure.

As far as taking the written before the CCNP/DP tests, I think you gain a
lot of knowledge while studying for those exams and it's worth the time to
finish those up first.  I personally feel that it adds to the sense of
accomplishment to tackle these in order, and the process itself may be worth
more than the certs in the long run.

If you focus on learning and don't focus on just the certifications, you'll
fly through these with no problem.

Good luck!

John

|  Hi,
|  
|  First, way to go, sounds like you worked hard! You Deserve it.
|  
|  How much time did any of you take to study for the CCIE written after
|  passing the CCNP exams?
|  
|  Do you have any other advice for those of us going taking baby steps
from
|  CCNP studies to the CCIE written? (My co-workers say I should just take
the
|  written but the instant gratification of passing the CCNP exams keeps me
|  motivated!)
|  
|  I plan to finish my CCNP/DP before September and then take 2.5 months of
|  studying for the written I'll take in Mid-December. I hope it's good
enough
|  to score at least over 80%, but wow, 90% is something to be really proud
|  about. Congrats again.
|  
|   - Ryan
|  
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Re: Comment on Boson's v3.83 CCIE Written Practice Test [7:12403]

2001-07-14 Thread Tim Ross

Zahid,

The Boson tests are a great study tool. I recommend reading the material for
the study topic, then doing as much hands on as possible on the study
material, then use the Boson tests. After taking the Boson test, review the
material you are weak in, then retake the Boson until consistently over 90%,
then take the exam. They are high quality self-tests and much less expensive
than the ones that used to be available for Novell and Microsoft exams (Big
Red Self-test, Transcender, Self-test software, etc.)

The CCIE Written Boson is especially good.

Tim


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Subject: Comment on Boson's v3.83 CCIE Written Practice Test [7:12361]


 Dear All,

 Would someone pls. comment on the quality and effectiveness
 of  the Boson's v3.83 CCIE Written Practice test ?

 Any other relevant study and preparation tips would be much appreciated.

 Regards,

 Zahid




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