About
Welcome to my blog. My name is Daniel Dib and I’m a network engineer. I hold CCNP, CCDA and ENS certifications. I decided to go for the CCIE. I will blog about books I read and how I prepare for the CCIE. I’m planning of doing the lab in 2012 and the written in late 2010 or early 2011. This blog will also other stuff that I find useful like things I run into at my work.
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This blog might be good for your CCIE LAB Exam.
Hello Daniel,
Nice to know you, this is Ricky from China.
Hi Ricky,
Welcome to the site
Are you studying Cisco?
Hi Daniel,
Stumbled over your post at techexams.net when I was looking for CCIE-startup inspiration.
I’m a curious about how you organize the material(and time)?
Keep up the good work.
Mvh
Micke
Hi,
Glad you found my blog. I started out by preparing for the written. I did roughly 200 hours of reading, lots of books and blogs etc. I did not do much labbing for the written. I have a commute to work 45 min one way which I use to study. Now that the written is cleared I used the time on my commute to read and practice my own flash cards to keep things in memory. I highly recommend flash cards. I spend 3-4 nights per week doing labs. I have the INE vol1-4 labs and I’m mostly doing vol2 labs right now. Weekends are familytime except for sunday night which is labtime. I’m closing in on 500h now and I expect to go beyond 1000 before being ready for the lab. Studying for CCIE with a family is tough but I’m in no rush. I’m in this to become a better engineer not just to cram a test. If you have any questions you can write in the comments or mail me.
/Daniel
Hi there.
I’m also studying for CCIE Lab.
I’ve passed the written exam about a month ago.
I’m writing amateur post of my quest to CCIE in http://www.1cisco.com
Also I\m inviting you if you like to write on my blog too.
Dear Daniel Dib, how I can e-mail you directly?
Regards,
Andrius
Hi,
Send an email to blog@reaper.nu
Daniel, where are you in the world? I am in the UK and am aiming for my first attempt early 2012 – it would be good to hook up, I am doing INE bootcammp in Feb then lab in April depending on my bootcamp experience
Roger
Hey Roger!
I live in Sweden so we are almost in the same timezone. I’m doing my lab late feb 2012. If you have google talk or anything like that we could hook up there?
Hi Daniel,
I’m just starting my quest for CCIE….I have not yet completed my CCIE exam, what reading would you suggest for this???
I will also email you if you don’t mind.
Cheers John ( Perth Australia)
Hi John,
You should get the certification guide and the Routing TCP/IP Volumes by Doyle for sure. Internet routing architectures by Halabi is good as well. I’ll send you an e-mail later with some advice. Good luck John!
Hi Daniel,
First of all, your blog is really good!
I am also studying for the CCIE R&S lab. I have passed the CCIE written in October and I will start with lab training from the 01-01-2012 with INE material (workbook 1-4).
I would like to know if you have any suggestions for Lab training with INE material. did u do the INE bootcamp?
It will be nice to hook up there via google talk. I plan to go for the lab Dec 2012.
Regards,
Laurent (Denmark)
Hi Laurent,
I’m glad you like the blog. Petr has a good suggestion on how to study @ http://blog.ine.com/2010/10/09/how-to-pass-the-ccie-rs-with-ines-4-0-training-program/
I started following that but later developed my own strategy. Right now I have been focusing heavily on Vol1 because I think it is necessary to recognize all features and where to find them in the DOCCD if we are assigned them at the lab. I haven’t had the possibility to do any bootcamps unfortunately. INE is probably very good and Narbik is good as well. Dec 2012 sounds like a reasonable date if you can keep a good pace. Add me at Gtalk, I’ll send you an email with address to avoid the spammers
Hi Daniel,
Thanks a lot for your message. I will contact you through Gtalk.
Your blog is great and have some really good contents! I have got inspiration from it to create my own blog.
/Laurent
Great!
Having a blog is really good practice. Unfortunately I don’t have the time to write as often as I want since I’m deep into studies. I do try to blog when there is something I want a deeper understanding of or if it is something that could benefit the community. Good luck Laurent!
hey nice blog….am studying for Written now and hope to finish books as well as Narbik Adv CCIE workbook with written for solid understanding…Can you guide me how to study for lab as i am quite confused and i dont know how much should i cover before sitting for lab.
Basically you need to learn the whole blueprint for the lab. Start by assessing how comfortable you are in each area and practice most on the areas you are weak in. Have you decided on Narbik for the workbooks? If you did my guess is he has some kind of plan or will reply to you if you ask him how to practice his labs.
I have used INE and I think the best strategy is to start by doing technology focused labs (Vol1) and then start mixing them with full scale (Vol2) labs. Tell me if you need more information.
I know the blue print can tell you the topics but not the details that how deeper you should go for each one of them and i think some topics like security focused or BGP and MPLS are not that detail demanding then IGP’s or Switching. I guess Cisco should tell that too because i guess most students fail their attempts by preparing for much less focused topics more then the core topics. I will certainly like to be in contact with you and discuss my study related problems if it’s convenient for you. The other problem that i face and is not common with others is when i go and try to access my weak points i feel i am weak in every damn topic and i know the reality is not same because believe me i have written jeff doyle TCP/IP volume 1 book by hand
Cheers
Hey i just read a post above that you live in Sweden?? I live in sweden too
but i am not from Sweden…i am doing Msc. Information Security from LTU up north wohoo 
and working as a consultant too. Stay in touch
Cool. I live outside Gothenburg. Add me to Gtalk if you want to chat sometime.
yeah sure, mail me your gmail address..will add you
Hello,
can you help me ?
i have a big problem with ipv6 over frame relay interface point-to-point.
Thanks very much
Sure. Describe the issue and paste your config and I’ll have a look.