On Track?
Back in the saddle again. The past week or so I have been working on switching and frame-relay mainly. I feel I am pretty much across these topics. Trouble is, and what scares me is they (especially frame-relay) just seems a little too easy. Last thing I need is to settle into some complacent state thinking I know everything when really I am leaving something out.
I have been looking a lot at these topics because if your L2 is broken nothing else will work. I will put a similar amount of effort into OSPF/EIGRP/BGP too. If I lose (say) 5 points because I completely screw multicast then that’s too bad. If I screw IGP then I have the potential to lose a hell of a lot more. This does not mean I will ignore QoS/Multicast/IPServices, but I think these topics are a hell of a lot more granular and also don’t have the dependency that L2/L3 does.
Now… onto EIGRP for the next few days then I will drill OSPF more than a couple on their honeymoon night.
Just checked in and saw you are doing switching and frame relay
I just finished that and starting routing protocols. I am going through soup-to-nuts right now and wanted to be ready before I show up @ Pasadena. It really helps when you start putting a schedule in front of you. Do you have your own rack or rack renting?
I am on to EIGRP today. Soup to nuts is a great book… It will set you up ideally for Narbik’s bootcamp.
I have been using Dynamips/GNS3 for most of my study, but using a real rack for the stuff Dynamips cant handle, such as the advanced switching. The NM-16ESWs in 3640s cant handle MST and some other spanning-tree stuff, plus they only use vlan database rather than config mode. For all the L3+ plus stuff its fine (in my opinion).