Passing the lab is a lot about psychology. You will be put into an environment you have never been in before. You won’t know what the room looks like, what keyboard you will use and there are a lot of
CCIE link of the day # 4 – Faster, harder, CCIE!
To pass the CCIE lab we need to be fast. It is important to be fast in a smart way though, we have not use for mindless speed. We need to know the protocols and in what order to do
CCIE link of the day # 3 – Join the forum
Since I use INE I often visit their forum, which is called IEOC. This is the place to ask questions specific to your workbook. There are a lot of CCIE candidates and previous students who are now CCIE’s that are
CCIE link of the day # 2 – Get with the program
When studying for the CCIE you need to make a plan. I am following this plan from INE. The important thing here is not that I’m using INE and you are using IP Expert or another vendor. The important thing
CCIE link of the day # 1
Becoming a CCIE is a lot about gathering information from a lot of sources and read through them and lab for yourself to see how it really works. I’m starting a new section on my blog which will contain a
Generate traffic with traceroute
I found a very useful tool when practicing the INE labs. How to generate traffic with traceroute. I’ve used telnet lots of times to generate TCP traffic on different ports but what if we want to generate UDP traffic instead?
RMON – Remote MONitoring
RMON stands for Remote Monitoring. It is an extension to SNMP that lets us enable event notifications when certain thresholds are met. We can monitor the performance of interfaces or the CPU and everything that has an OID in the
Lock and key ACL
The lock and key ACL is one of those features you’re not sure how to use in production but it is viable for the CCIE lab. The lock and key ACL is a form of dynamic ACL which requires a
Transport preferred none
Have you ever mistyped a command and the router thinks you want to telnet another device? Sure you have and so have I. The most common solution is to turn off name lookups. no ip domain-lookup This will tell the
Filtering traffic with a route-map
This post describes how to filter packets with a route-map. I have never used a route-map for the sole purpose of filtering packets before. I ran into this while doing a vol2 lab and the task was to filter ICMP