The Cisco Account Team that supports my employer gave a pretty good engineering oriented presentation to us today. Here are some of the CCIE Lab related points made:
1) for the 3550 switch, BGP will appear in the next IOS release, due out in August. Cisco did not say so, but I am guessing that this will be plenty of time for a Lab scenario to be put together and tested where BGP on the 3550 L3 switch will be part of the scenario. Recall that Lab takers will be accountable for all L3 possibilities on the 3550 switch after November 4, 2002. 2) the BGP implementation on the 3550 L3 will not be "complete" The presenter was unable to speak to specifics, but I have a question in to Cisco, and the Account team has promised an answer detailing the differences between the switch BGP and a router BGP. 3) I asked specifically and was told specifically that IS-IS is not planned on either the 3550 or the 4006 L3. I was a bit surprised to hear this because of the recent resurgence in the popularity of IS-IS. 4) Not that it matters, but there are no plans for L3 IPX either. I certainly can find no reference to IPX in the command references and config guides for the 3550 switches as found on CCO. I am still hunting down a definitive word about the number of 3550's that will be in each Lab pod. Some folks have told me there will be two, with all that implies. However, those at Cisco whom I have asked have not said anything so far. Good studying. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=48634&t=48634 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
