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Narbik Day 3
Apr 15th
Sorry I didn’t post last night, I was dead tired. This week is tough.
Yesterday was QoS and RIP. It was mostly lecture. I feel like a gained a MUCH better understanding of Policing and Shaping yesterday, I just hope I can keep it in my brain. Learned a ton about RIP too, and the depths of routing in general. Can’t say enough good things about Narbik or this class, I would recommend it to anyone.
Today is the day I’ve been looking forward to all week, BGP and MPLS. Woot!
I should be able to throw something up midday, I hope.
Narbik Day 2, Part 1
Apr 13th
Day 2 is nearly over. It’s been full of OSPF. Lots of lecture and labbing. Narbik has so much in his brain, it’s really unbelievable. Everyone knows that OSPF is very deep, but after today I’m speechless. I’ve made some tables and a diagram (from Narbik’s drawing on the whiteboard) with some of the information I want to save. Here is table of OSPF LSA Types:
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It tells you which type of router sends them, what they look like in the RIB, what commands we can use to see them and some other things.
Here is the table of OSPF Network Types:
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Also filled with good info.
Here is the diagram I made from his drawing on the board:
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Narbik Day 1, Part 2
Apr 12th
We’re still going. Around 10 hours so far (hourish lunch break, and 5-15 minutes here and there).
We’ve covered L2 stuff so far. Mostly security stuff: VLAN Hopping, Port-Security, DHCP Snooping (and Source Guard, DAI), ACLs, PVLANs, and Dot1x. Great information. Narbik is ridiculous, he writes all the commands out on the board… from memory. It’s sick.
Not a ton of lecture so far, just the L2 stuff. Mostly doing labs. Frame Relay is up next.
Class is great so far. I’m a bit sad that STP isn’t covered in much detail. That’s one of my weak points as I haven’t gone into much detail on STP since BCMSN. I asked Narbik about it and he told me there isn’t enough time to cover everything (camp is only ~4 1/2 days), I think L2 is easy for most people also, where routing is more my thing. Whaddya gonna do.
I’m Here! (Narbik Day 1)
Apr 12th
Class is interesting so far. Narbik is an interesting guy. Here’s the layout he’s given us:
- Day 1
- Switching
- Basics
- Security
- QoS
- Frame Relay
- Switching
- Day 2
- OSPF
- Eigrp
- Day 3
- QoS
- RIP
- Day 4
- BGP
- MPLS
- Day 5
- Multicast
We’ve gotten all the workbooks and configs. Getting our racks configured now. Good stuff. I’m a little disappointed that IPv6 isn’t covered, but I guess I’ll self study that stuff.
I’ll post more later.
My First CCIE Bootcamp
Apr 8th
Thanks to my new pal Darby Weaver, I’m attending a Narbik bootcamp next week in Chicago! Darby was kind enough to let me use his spot as he will not be able to make it. My company is even willing to give me the time off (as training, so no loss of PTO, woot) and pay for travel, hotel, and rental car. Needless to say, I’m very excited. I’m hoping to do some type of daily digest post each night, but I don’t know if I’ll have the energy or motivation after 12 hour days of Cisco study.
Here are the details on the class: This program offers Narbik’s Routing and Switching as well as Cisco 360 CCIE R&S Advanced Workshop 1 (CIERS-1) v1.0. This program offers Instructor Led lessons, a lab guide and hands-on labs on specific topics, as well as Assessment labs, including instructor time and feedback to provide student mentoring and support.
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