I have now oficially started to prepare for the lab. Yesterday I did my first rack rental via Graded labs. This worked flawlessly even though I am located in Sweden. Getting access to the equipment was easy and the command prompt was responsive. The only thing that’s a drag is that it takes so long to load the configurations via the control panel.
I am following this program from INE. I was able to finish 1.1 – 1.12 yesterday. I was a bit shocked first even at the first lab since you need to get the right feel for the diagrams and how to get the information from them that you want. I had to draw a new diagram to get the information I wanted. To do this “show cdp neighbor” and “show interface trunk” is very usable.
Feels very good to have started. I had a pretty good grasp of the labs during this session, it still is easy to forget easy things like creating a VLAN or so. One time I didn’t know the command to do a task and I then looked it up in the DOC-CD. I will try to only use this as my source for configuring and not rely on google to search.
get used to draw your own diagrams, L2, L3 and sometimes IGP and BGP. It will help a lot .-)
Thanks for the input. Do you have any good tips on how to create good diagrams? I haven’t started IGP’s yet so I guess I will have to do a lot of more diagrams later on. I did buy some shiny pencils in different colors yesterday so I should be all setup there 😀