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New Idea
Lately I’ve been doing lab posts with walkthroughs, which don’t seem to get a ton of interest. Obviously I’ll continue doing labs for my CCIE studies and I’ll likely post them, but I don’t think I’m going to do the walkthroughs anymore. They take a lot of time and I haven’t been feeling motivated.
My new plan is to go through the Command Guides for each technology I study (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, STP, etc) and do quick posts summarizing the command’s purpose and working through an example of usage. I’ll probably include more than one command in each post, depending on their depth. I think this will help me (and hopefully others) get a better understanding of everything.
What do you guys think of this approach? Any suggestions?
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about 1 year ago
While I will miss the walk-throughs, I will appreciate the command ref’s and some descriptions. Sometimes the id done by cisco on a command is simply not enough, and a good example is needed to solidify it in peep’s minds. Sounds good man, look forward to it. You’ve been quiet lately…how’s the studying?
about 1 year ago
I will definitely will miss the walk-through. But understand giving study and lack responses.
Put the labs up and do support decision.
I was looking to see the WT for OSPF lab2.
Will post my config for your review.
about 1 year ago
I did always enjoy the labs, although I will admit some of the recent walkthroughs have had info a bit beyond me (for now), once I catch up and get to the CCIE myself, I’ll be referring back here a lot for that.
Still, I like your idea for what to do now, if nothing else it’ll be very useful.
about 1 year ago
Yea, I’ve been quiet this week. I couldn’t work up the motivation to do that OSPF 2 walkthrough and I was slammed at work anyway.
Funny thing about the last lab though, I didn’t really test anything with the tasks before I made them up, I just threw stuff down on paper and hoped I could figure it out. Some of it I couldn’t, lol. Stuff I thought would work didn’t, so twoish tasks in the lab weren’t possible (that I could see, if anyone figured all of it out, PLEASE let me know hah).
So anyway, I figure I’ll try out the new idea. I like more interaction from this and the labs just didn’t seem to produce much.
about 1 year ago
I don’t know about everyone else but I’d like to see some good tutorials on setting up eigrp/ospf on MPLS VPN PE routers and redistributing into MP-BGP.
about 1 year ago
Jason, I’ve alread done that. Take a look at the MPLS and BGP series.
I will likely cover it again when I get to MPLS in my studies, but probably not as deep as I went in that series.
about 1 year ago
I looked through those already but I was thinking more along the lines of going over the commands specifically for EIGRP/OSPF, keeping with your new approach. I know you’ve already done enough with MPLS so it probably wouldn’t be a good idea for you to keep covering that ground otherwise you’d have to rename the blog to “AlwaystheMPLS”
about 1 year ago
Hmm, I’ll try to cover them while I go through everything.
about 1 year ago
Agreed: I will miss the walkthroughs, but the command ref’s would be great, as well.