Yous just answered your own question (the tech economy is bad-- very bad),
and many people face or have faced the same "chicken and egg" problem.
I have often wondered the same thing, about there being almost no ads for
junior network engineers, and very few for midl-levels, even. I can
speculat
To Siva, and hundreds of similarly situated folks:
I don't know you, but if you are like a lot of us, you will find that you
will need more time to prepare for the lab than from now until June, and
want to save you the hassle of trying to reschedule on short notice. Okay,
that will be easy for
This sort of job posting is extremely common here in the US. The
"CCNA/CCIE" thrown together as if they were all in the same league.
Do the tech managers not know that there is a huge difference, or is job ad
written up by some non-techie who had no idea of teh difference. If the
managers are a
Yes. The Cisco client does that, both the older 3.x version and the newest
3.x version.
Every time I VPN into the office network using a Cisco VPN client, I am
prompted for my password. (The username is remembered in my browser). I
think what you will want to do is make sure that you check the
Sonic Wall Firewalls can do some content filtering and there is an antivirus
option you can get. No IDS, though. Pix has a rudimentary IDS, as has been
stated. It has 59 signatures or so.
Tom Larus
""Gunjan Mathur"" wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I'm lo
I just passed it recently, as part of the Routing and Switching partner
specialization for my company. It is challenging, as all Cisco exams are
these days.
I am dying to get a chance to teach BSCI.
Tom Larus, CCIE #10,014
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If you are really serious about your budget being small, then perhaps an old
Cat 5000 or 5500 or two, with a RSM in one of them to deal with VLANs if you
really insist on having VLANs for so few users. People are giving the
things away these days.
Okay, you guys, you can stop laughing now.
Best
Yes, but Brian Dennis cannot be far behind. He already has three CCIEs.
Tom Larus
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> I would imagine the 5 CCIE mark has already been obtained. I met someone
> who was working on their 5th at the end of the summer and I'm sure they
> have pas
I think Dennis Laganiere's own CCIE prep book is very good. He is too
polite to mention it here himself, but I think people should know about it.
I like how it covers a vast array of topics in a summary fashion, but goes
into considerable depth when it comes to especially difficult topics that
cry
You really ought to send the actual configs. The problem could have
something to do with multicast and ATM, but that's just a guess, without
seeing configs.
Tom Larus, CCIE #10,014
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a very unique problem with this part
This sounds like a problem that was discussed here (or on the groupstudy
ccielab list) in the last few days. The problem then was EIGRP over ATM.
Now it's OSPF over ATM. Try specifying your OSPF neighbors manually, so
unicasting occurs.
There may be a better solution, but try this until someone
This may not always be an option, but I would use tagging and route-maps
instead of distribute-lists any time I can. There is just too much room for
serious, show-stopping errors, with distribute-lists. With route tagging,
you could mess up and end up with a packet taking a suboptimal path to a
d
I don't think we can stress enough how important the speed/duplex mismatch
and autonegotiation problems are. If you are having a LAN problem, this is
one of the first things you should consider. The interesting thing thing
about duplex mismatch errors is that things can seem like they are working
Thanks!!! This is why I LOVE this list. You can ask a question that only a
few hundred people in the whole world could answer really well, and one of
them will answer.
Tom Larus
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> Thomas Larus wrote:
&
You have to think about what you want to do, and about the long term. While
the rest of the economy experienced a mild and short recession-- so mild
that it is debatable whether it technically should have counted as a
recession, the telecommunications sector experienced something much more
serious
This reminds me of the sort of swapping that is a solution to the problem of
upgrading IOS on a 2500-series router without the newer bootroms. You
upgrade the IOS in a 2500 with the good bootroms, and then swap the flash
sticks with the router that lacks the proper bootroms.
The sort of common se
Once you type "no shutdown," it will bring up the interface but not leave
anything in the config file. If you type "shutdown," that will show up in
the config file.
Tom Larus
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> Hi guys,
>
>
> I have a question and its maybe a stupid
Your point about frame map statements and layer 3 addresses brings up and
interesting point. You CAN have a different kind of frame-relay
encapsulation on different PVCs, and you do this with frame relay map
statements.
I don't have time to test it now, but I remember learning that to use frame
r
I have bought from symmic, and things have worked out well, too.
Tom Larus
""Wow"" wrote in message
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> I have bought some back to back cables from this place:
> http://www.symmic.com/computer/cabcisco.htm
>
> pretty cheap and no problems.
>
> Dennis
>
> ""Jason"" wrot
""ira"" wrote in message
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> My company has a router w/ 1 WAN address.
> I want to prioritize traffic so that voice is
> preffered to data traffic.
>
> How can I do it? I mean haw can a differentiate
> between data and voice traffic ?
>
> Ira.
>
> __
The home-built Pix strikes me as being more trouble and expense than it is
worth. I read about someone who made one, and he had to use an expensive
flash card that cost nearly as much as a base-model Pix. The home-built Pix
has certain obvious legal deficiencies, and, it is safe to say, could ne
I think you can switch them around as you like except that Support should
come last. Once you have studied for the other three, Support just follows
naturally, because you should have gotten practice using the debugging
commands and show commands and other troubleshooting tools.
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I thought the "experience versus certification" debate had finally died a
few days ago, but now it resurfaces over on the professional list. I may as
well weigh in.
The problem here is clear. Some folks with lots of experience are scared
(or merely offended) that some manager or client might th
Thank you for asking for Mr. Doyle's input. His sentiments encourage me and
inspire me to press on and learn as much as I can. The line "If the
engineer is smart and aggressive, it is easy enough to team him or her up
with a mentor to add the practical experience," is precisely what I needed
to
Because when you "copy tftp run" you are merging the tftp file into your
running config, NOT replacing it.
Tom Larus
""Sim, CT (Chee Tong)"" wrote in message
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> Hi.. Dear all,
>
> Why you I copy the config from the tftp server to replace the old config
If you think a Lammle book is so great that it will make it easy to anyone
to get the cert that you worked so hard for, then you are giving Todd Lammle
more credit than he deserves.
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> Man this bums me out.
>
> Lammle
The Lab Scenarios from CCBootcamp cost a lot more than $150 (and are
supposed to be very good-- I chose Ipexpert lab scenarios mainly because
they use a topology that more closely fits my home lab). I think you must
be looking at the price of their CCIE Written Exam preparation material. I
just
I don't think Cisco is primarily concerned with the "cost" of outfitting
their own labs with 6500s. After all, their cost is MUCH lower than the
list prices. I think Cisco is being considerate of OUR wallets. This is the
same reason they don't have 7200 routers and 7500 routers on the equipment
Do not take it so soon if this is where you are. You can still cancel. If
you have not paid yet, don't. If you have, then switch to a MUCH later
date.
You need to get deep into this stuff. You will have questions once you have
delved into the practice labs, and you will need to go back and do
I believe the 2500 series runs at least partly from flash (as opposed to
routers that move their entire IOS from flash into RAM and run it from RAM),
so you should NOT be able to run a 2500 series router without any flash.
Thomas Larus, CCNP, MCSE
""Scott Lokey"" wro
asking for
some guidance at a more advanced level than this basic cabling level, then
forgive my post.
Thomas Larus
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> Hello groupstudy,
> The problem is that when I configure and no shut
I am trying to edit config files and then save them to the TFTP server, and
WIN2K's Wordpad puts .txt after every kind of file, it seems. Text file is
.txt, but so is unicode. How can I save something without Win2k tacking on
the .txt extension?
Thomas Larus
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that.
Spend a lot of time studying for Routing, for it is very intellectually
challenging material and is the most important material you will study, in
my opinion. I did not spend enough time on it, and now I am having to work
harder as I study for the Lab.
Thomas Larus, CCNP, MCSE
""Piat
link. (Yes, this is
apparently similar to a notorious ccbootcamp lab, but I didn't know that
until I started noticing people posting to the lab list answers to questions
I was having.)
Thomas Larus
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that almost-new equipment
becomes worthless in the hands of anyone but the original owners, but that
could be how it works. Please reply to the group, because I'll bet lots of
other people would like to know the answers to these questions.
Thomas Larus
Patrick Ramsey"" wrote
omeone else can tell you how to use the console port to upgrade the IOS. I
strongly recommend buying extremely cheap TR equipment and trying TR. I
hated token ring before I bought my cheap IBM TR gear, but I love Token Ring
now, and I am studying for my CCIE lab exam, so it's a good thing I
I would suggest that you seek a recent post (yesterday or the day before)
about Mentor on this very website, which post provided a link to an article
about Mentor's recent events. It was on the Professional newsfeed or the
ccielab mail list.
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one myself, but the journey itself is very satisfying.
Thomas Larus
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out to be
101 . I guess that zero saves it from being a broadacst address.
Is this right, or did the Cable ISP just screw up?
Thomas Larus
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Great point. It's not a supernet of anything. Not with the first octet
being 24.
Thomas Larus
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Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 4:02 PM
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: quick response (help) pleas
Your policy is definitely the safest. The stakes are pretty high, and if
you ask, and Cisco refuses to answer, then you will know that it is not
something to discuss on this list. Some may disagree with the policy, but
Cisco is in the driver's seat on its NDA policy, and it is not worth
risking
Congratuations! Any one of your skill areas would be impressive, but to put
them together so well, and to show the employer how you can do things "on
the cheap" and make things work well-- now that is mighty impressive and
inspiring. I particularly like the demonstration using your home lab.
Best
While Mr. Ladrach is almost certainly correct in his statement that the CCIE
is less challenging that physics and calculus, he might be able to speak
more authoritatively once he has passed the Lab Exam.
As for being easier than accounting and economics classes, if you are
reasonably intelligent a
Money is helpful, but the only power I want is some power over my own
destiny, which is asking quite a lot as it is.
With the CCIE, it sometimes possible to find a job that involves studying
network technologies, experimenting with cool equipment in the lab, teaching
other folks what you have lear
DO NOT buy a Cat 5500 for the home lab if you are doing so for the CCIE.
They are taking the 5500 off the Lab. Read the list about these and other
recent changes. They were announced less than a month ago, and there has
been a lot of discussion here.
Now you could still buy a Cat 5500; just don
I believe it costs a fortune (over $1000) for us mere customers/end users.
I imagine Cisco thinks you resellers need to have it to support your
customers, so they don't have to do as much of the support. I love my 12.1
printed docs, which I paid $400 plus shipping (around 43 dollars, I think)
on
Keep the two ports apart by keeping them in separate VLANs, and turn the
port that they both need to be able to access into a trunk port.
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> Not sure, because I do not have a 2924XL-EN handy.
> Try setting port securit
Someone just asked me ISDN simulators, and told me that the price of the one
they were thinking of buying, an Emutel, had dropped 500 dollars.
I have a Teltone ISDN Demonstrator, and I like it fine, but I would look
into the Emutel if its price has fallen so much. You don't need NT1s for
the one
I know the IPEXPERT folks are coming out with a new Workbook in about a week
that incorporates the 3550.
Tom Larus
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> Team,
> Do you happen to know any new book for the lab which already cover the
3550
> switch on full
Teltone ISDN Demonstrator (U interfaces only) in original box with floppy
disk. (probably not original power cord, though, as they are generally
fungible) $1,200 plus $15 flat shipping for FEDEX 2nd Day Shipping to
continental US.
2x NM-1V plus 2x VIC-2FXS. Original owner and original packaging,
I can narrow down the field by telling you that my Catalyst 2828-EN (2820
series-- modular brother of the 1900-series) is NOT quiet. Mine makes so
much noise I avoided using it (and my Cat 5000), and used a combination of
quieter 3Com switch, 3Com hub, and crossover cables. This was a mistake an
You can use an NM-4A/S, but these ports can go no faster that 128kbps. This
will also use up your NM slot, which you may want to leave open for
something else (like a Voice module).
Shop around for these NM-4A/S modules, as the prices vary drastically from
vendor to vendor, and day to day on ebay
I think some people tend to be intimidated by ATM more than by frame relay
because it is more expensive to get into a home lab and most of us are less
likely to have a job configuring ATM on a regular basis than configuring
frame relay on a regular basis.
Yes, I know you can get ATM in your lab w
I have sold so much of my lab that I no longer need this small, stackable
and wall- mountable rack. It has nice big rubber feet for standing on a
surface. Wall mountable with door, but I cannot find the key. I have the
door off for easy Lab access and because the door could cramp the
wiring/cab
Sorry. The Fredericksburg, VA location got cut off.
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> I have sold so much of my lab that I no longer need this small, stackable
> and wall- mountable rack. It has nice big rubbe
The Cat 3550 is currently a new product so used items are hard to find.
However, if you are not too far along in your CCIE preparation, you have
some time. The fact that this question was not posted to the CCIELAB
mailing list suggests that you may not be in a huge hurry yet. Many of the
importa
I know I've seen a Pix 501 that comes with 3DES on ebay priced around $100
more than the straight DES ones, if that helps a bit.
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> Do any of the PIX firewalls come with 3DES or is it an upgrade option on
all
> the models
Dream lab
2 3640s with 2 FE, 2 t1 serial ints, and ATM 155 (or 2621 with two wic-1ts,
if ATM cannot be part of this dream)
3 2610s with two t1 serial
3 2611s with 2 t1 serial
2 2501s (to be used as backbone routers in scenarios like Ipexpert's)
1 2523 or 2522 as frame switch and third backbon
Good thought. Let's add that to the list.
Tom
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> As long as we're dreaming...how about adding a big whiteboard with Caslow
or
> Pavlichenko stationed in front? :-)
>
&g
Thanks for the eye-opener. I did not know that many of the errors one finds
in technical books are introduced in the editorial process. Nor did I know
that the publishers are not strong on things like diagrams and cover art.
It sounds like I might do better working out the kinks in my Visio diagr
"I can't fail it a second time..."
You'd better lose that attitude now. If you really can't fail it a second
time, then you had better stop now. I hope you will not give up, though. I
just suggest you alter your attitude and expectations.
To get the CCIE, you will need to be prepared to try an
With $1,000 dollars, I would first buy a 4 port frame switch router, perhaps
a 2520. I say 2520, not 2521 (Token ring), because the ethernet port on the
2520 allows it to serve as an additional router-- perhaps a "backbone"
router that you would connect to using ethernet. $200-$300, if you are
luc
Look into Dennis Laganiere's and Brad Ellis' Study Guide for the CCIE
written. I got a deal on it through Amazon.com. "Laganiere" makes a good
search term.
Check out Dennis Laganiere's website, too. www.laganiere.net I am amazed
how much advice he gives away. As someone who is almost finished
Rollover cables.
Tom Larus
""Natchaya Radhikulkaralak"" wrote in message
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>
> I am having difficulty finding this out. Does anyone have a definite
answer
> on what type of cable do I use to connect from (lets say)Port 1, on the
> AS2511-rj, to a 3600/260
The big difference, for me anyway, is that it is a lot easier to find
answers to technical questions about the equipment on Cisco's website.
Cisco's website is voluminous and easy to search.
Perhaps you can get good info with some sort of Extreme login or from
Extreme's technical support folks, bu
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