RE: passed CCNA.. now what? any recommendations?
I'd take the CCDA next. The new CiscoPress CCDA book has a CD as well. It's one exam and you get a certification for it!! -Original Message- From: Luther [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, July 30, 2000 7:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: passed CCNA.. now what? any recommendations? Hi I recently passed CCNA v1.0 .. and was wondering if anyone could help me interms of what I should be doing next? I gather CCNP v2.0 is the most logical step I should be taking. Which exam should I take first? .. and what text books can anyone recommend to me? For my CCNA i used: 1. CCNA by Sybex (i didnt like this book very much) 2. Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices by Cisco Press - I loved this book!.. yes I know this is geared towards CCNA v2.0.. but I found it excellent in my studies for v1.0 (which i scored 925/1000 on). I really prefer to invest my money in cisco press books from now on.. Any advice? Many thanks Luther CCNA, MCSE ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CCNP/CCDP certification finally obtained for this Vancouverite
Well, I've finally passed my last 2 exams to obtain my CCNP and CCDP certifications. I thought I'd post a bit of information on how I did this, and what my current role at work is. The study material I used was: - Lots of CiscoPress books, - Some Sybex books, - Some Syngress books, - Network Study Guides and other questions/study notes obtained on various web sites. I have a Palm Pilot (actually a Handspring) and would like to have used Palm based study notes and questions. I believe the Sybex CID book had a subset of questions that were on the CD for the Palm. My web site www.tuline.eu.org has my books listed. The order of exams I took was: CCNA - Used Sybex book, and course material, studied hard and got 94% (really like the Sybex), CCDA - Used CID book, course material, and didn't do nearly as well (wished I'd had the CCDA book), ACRC - Used CiscoPress and Sybex, took a long time and did reasonable (didn't like the Sybex book), CMTD - CiscoPress and course material, was very motivated to learn this, and got 93%, CLSC - CiscoPress, and did reasonable (wished I'd had some actual switches to play with), CID - Used CiscoPress, Sybex, was overconfident, and squeaked through, CIT - Used CiscoPress, Syngress, studied for only 3 weeks, and did reasonable. Since I'm a department manager, and have kids, most of my study time was spent on the subway (we call it Skytrain) to and from work. Additionally, I don't currently get a lot of hands on time, so I'll not be pursuing CCIE for the time being. I'm not interested in selling any of my books or course material, as I'll be using them for reference and probably for CCNP 2.0 down the road. My role is manager of corporate systems support for an 800 employee organization, and I provide technical support of our Frame Relay network of 15+ sites. This frame network is using point-multipoint and EIGRP. Additionally, our WAN also includes a couple of point to point links, as well as a recently installed ISDN site. We're going to be adding some Cisco switches to our branch LAN in October, so I hope to get some decent switch experience. I also occasionally consult to our clients in the area of network design and implementation. Andrew Tuline CCNP/CCDP Sierra Systems Group Inc. Vancouver, BC ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ethernet switches and DHCP problem
Here's a Microsoft article that discussed how DHCP can have problems with the Spanning Tree. http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q168/4/55.asp?LN=EN-US&SD=g n&FR=0 My understanding from this article is that when a port goes active (due to powerup of a PC), that it will cause the Spanning Tree Algorithm to determine if there's a loop, effectively shutting down the port for 10-15 seconds. If I'm to take this literally, then it would behoove me to implement PortFast as much as possible, so that I don't have any problems. Funny, I haven't noticed this before though. Anyone have comments on this? Andrew Tuline CCNA, CCDP (only CIT is remaining) ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: cir, bc, be - (and cost implications)
Tim's discussion below is my understanding of CIR as well. Further to that, I'd like to add the following comments which are my understanding of the financial implications of CIR (however I could be wrong). CIR discussion (the financial aspect): I've also found that there's considerable cost implications with a CIR as well. For instance, we're using an MCI frame network in the U.S. We are charged per megabyte for this. I had always wanted 0K CIR, knowing of course, that MCI's network will be over-engineered, and I'll get the data through. It turns out, that this isn't necessarily the cheapest. MCI has different charges for sending your data, for instance 0K CIR is X$/megabyte 16K CIR is Y$/megabyte up to your CIR (where Y > X) 16K CIR is Z$/megabyte beyond your CIR (where Z << X) If you have little data, then the 0K is cheapest. If you have a lot of data, then you'd better order some CIR, as the X$ per megabyte will add up to a lot more than the Y$+Z$ per megabyte. Not only that, but there's a cap on the maximum if you have 16K CIR, while I doubt if there's a cap on 0K CIR. I wish I could throw in the real $$$ figures to demonstrate, as we're going to convert from 0K to 16K for most of the branches. In conclusion, be careful when ordering up your CIR. 0K is not necessarily the cheapest. Andrew Tuline (CCNA, CCDP) (PS, hey did you see me mentioned in the Fritz Nelson's article in the Linux Issue of Network Computing recently.) -Original Message- From: Tim O'Brien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 12:17 PM To: Taylor, Don; 'Vic Feferberg'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cir, bc, be I thought that when you purchased bandwidth, the CIR that you purchased was the minimum guaranteed amount of bandwidth that the provider had to make available to you? If you bought a T1 with a 128K CIR you would always have at least 128K available to you no matter how much traffic was on their Frame network and you would be able to burst to ~1.5Mbps, provided that their network was not saturated, correct? Tim - Original Message - From: "Taylor, Don" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Vic Feferberg'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:37 PM Subject: RE: cir, bc, be CIR is the average speed you'll transmit overall. In addition to this, you can burst (Bc) up to, in your example, another 128K (256K total) for a predefined period of time (usually about 1 second). Be designates all those packets above the Bc; these are marked DE and will be discarded if congestion occurs. - Don -Original Message- From: Vic Feferberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 14, 2000 2:24 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cir, bc, be I'm having trouble getting my head around how bc and be relate to cir. For example, if all 3 are set to 128k, is bc included in cir, or is it additional to cir. etc, etc. TIA ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. When addressed to our clients any opinions or advice contained in this email are subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing KPMG client engagement letter. * ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fast Etherchannel question
Can you span FEC on different switches in a stack? ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: #BCRAN, CIT and Boson
I've heard good things about quality of the Bosons, however I tend toward the Sybex books for Q&A's. Once you re-format your hard drive for whatever reason (and restore the Boson material), it's my understanding that the Bosons will no longer work. I've dealt with that sort of copy protection in the past for a flight simulator add-on, and it was a major aggravation. If you don't change your O/S, then the Bosons are probably great. That just won't work for me. Andrew -Original Message- From: NedNobody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 8:37 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: #BCRAN, CIT and Boson Anyone that has recently taken the subject exams and used Boson Practice exams, would you please give me some feedback about their effectiveness in helping you prepare for the tests? If the Boson exams were not helpful would you please steer to some that were? ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ UPDATED Posting Guidelines: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/guide.html FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
