Finally a pass in v4 exam !!!!!!!!

Finally some good news that someone indeed has passed the V4 routing & switching ccie exam after 2 months of it being introduced to the world !! This news source is from the group study forum.

Update:
Flavio Provedel is the name of the person. He was using INE products. Scott morris broke the news of him passing. No official declaration or comment from Flavio yet.

More updates as I have more news & info !!

CCIE-Dash Reloaded

Well I dint make it in the V3 format of the exam. Now its time to conquer V4. My journey continues into 2010. Looking for a date approximately around March. Although I was studying a few concepts exploring new areas, Its now time to be the ultimate master.

I want to know it all & do it all !!!!!!!!!!!

I am starting out my full time study from today. I am going to explore all aspects of routing from scratch. My plan is to train myself to know everything in the book & everything that the cisco IOS has to offer. I have my weakness worked out. I know what mistake I did in my preparation last time around. I don't want my family to suffer this time because of me. 3 months to learn & be ready.

My plan;

Frame relay --- ETC --- 14DEC
I know the stuff but got to refresh & configure all of it.

RIP --- ETC --- 14DEC
Simple yet got know it all & practice it all.

EIGRP --- ETC --- 15DEC
Got to read some design concepts & practice all possible stuff.

OSPF --- ETC --- 17DEC
Got to read some design concepts & practice all possible stuff.

BGP --- ETC --- 19DEC
Got to read a lot & practice everything I can.

Redistribution - ETC --- 20DEC
This is what got me last time with some loops.

So what am I going to use to study & practise ...... Well its going be the jeff doyle book, INE volume-1, DOC-CD & of course the cisco design guides. Its important I practice everything because I Will have to prepare for troubleshooting . So this time I will use a lot of debug commands & all of the show commands.

I am hoping for the best to get my ccie-dash reloaded for the V4 exam.

Configuring IOS IPS

Well this week I decided to play around with IPS on the cisco routers. So I had a c3825 to try this on in my workplace. Tell you what, I had heard about this but it was the first time that I had configured it. Well the configuration is not that big a deal but it was fun & I loved it.

I went through the DOC-CD fully & practiced everything mentioned there. It will be interesting to see it in the exam.The reason I say is because;

First off when we load the signatures the routers processor is pegged. I wouldn't do it on a production router. I had like a gig of memory on my router so loading the signatures was not an issue but the router was totally non-responsive.

I am not too sure if packet forwarding & other actions would be affected while the signatures are loading(hopefully it isn't) but the router was not accepting my commands that I was typing in. After a minute or so it was available for me to use.

The router console is flooded with the IPS messages when ever we have packet flowing through.
Yes i had enable all signatures, which am sure is not going to be the case in the exam. In production am sure the syslog is gonna have load IPS data filled in day in & day out :)

IMO the ips config would be checked in the exam more than anything else. Just configuring signatures attributes & other related stuff. But on the whole it was really fun to work with & a cool feature to implement.

Some of the interesting links to read include

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I have a friend of mine who has IOS-IPS configured in his production router. So I will be visiting him to see how its configured & what sort of stuff its reporting. Happy weekend :)