With some luck and hard work, I have been able to secure three 1841 routers. The plan at this point is to setup the rack per INE topology as I already have the INE practice labs and the online class. After talking to a few CCIE's, it seems like the troubleshooting part of the lab is not all that bad....(that's what they have said, I will only agree with them once I pass the lab :). One thing that I have noticed though is the fact that MPlS portion is pretty straight forward, no traffic engineering or too involved VPN's.
I will be re-cabling the rack some time this week and running my first full lab during spring break....so much for the spring break.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Thursday, January 13, 2011
CCIE RS 350-001
I finally went ahead and took the written exam today during lunch break and passed it. At this point, I'm about a month behind from where I should be in the CCIE studies. I have a feeling that fall behined by at least another couple of weeks as I have some side jobs that are taking a little longer than anticipated.
One a postive note, one of my clients who runs a non-profit called me this week and said "we are leaving our office sapce and moving the business phone lines to our home"....not understanding what exactly she wanted me to do, I asked her if she would need any help with that and she goes "oh no, AT&T will move the phone lines, I just want you to swing by the office and see if you need any IT stuff before we toss it all out"....she goes on to say "we already have a couple of computers at home to work with and do not want anything from here so just take what you want." So....what do I get, I get an 1841 router, a checkpoint firewall (which I asked them to buy a few months ago), a Drobo FS (I bought it for them in July), a high end UPS, a Dell server (it's an old 380 or something), and a few Linksys VoIP phones (about 5).
You guys know what I will be doing this weekend, praying and hoping that all that stuff doesn't get legs and walk away before this monday :)
S.M
****My golf instructor says I'm standing too close to the ball...after I hit it****
One a postive note, one of my clients who runs a non-profit called me this week and said "we are leaving our office sapce and moving the business phone lines to our home"....not understanding what exactly she wanted me to do, I asked her if she would need any help with that and she goes "oh no, AT&T will move the phone lines, I just want you to swing by the office and see if you need any IT stuff before we toss it all out"....she goes on to say "we already have a couple of computers at home to work with and do not want anything from here so just take what you want." So....what do I get, I get an 1841 router, a checkpoint firewall (which I asked them to buy a few months ago), a Drobo FS (I bought it for them in July), a high end UPS, a Dell server (it's an old 380 or something), and a few Linksys VoIP phones (about 5).
You guys know what I will be doing this weekend, praying and hoping that all that stuff doesn't get legs and walk away before this monday :)
S.M
****My golf instructor says I'm standing too close to the ball...after I hit it****
Friday, December 3, 2010
Back from Vacation
So I'm finally back from my month long vacation. Planning on taking the R/S written before the end of the month.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Lab setup update
Finally ordered three 2611XM routers. Now working on getting three 3725's. Also bought a little 851W for home..it's pretty nice but a pain to setup the wireless on it.
Monday, August 9, 2010
CCIE RS Rack Setup
I have been looking around to find some good deals on Cisco equipment to update my old CCIE Rack to CCIE RS version 4. After days of online research and talking to several different folks, I have decided to go with the following upgrade:
1. Replace current 2610/2611/2620 routers with the 2611XM 128M/32M (these will be R1, R2, and R3).
2. Get three Cisco 3725 routers (R4, R5, and R6).
3. Keep the current 3X Cisco 2500 series as backbones.
4. Keep the current 4X 3550 switches with EMI IOS.
5. Keep the current 2610 (already setup as a frame relay switch).
Average price for 2611XM with 128M RAM and 32M Flash is around $130 on Ebay (around $400 for three). As for the 3725's with 256/128 memory configuration, the average is about $200-$225 which is still way better than the $450-$500 price tag of 1841's.
1. Replace current 2610/2611/2620 routers with the 2611XM 128M/32M (these will be R1, R2, and R3).
2. Get three Cisco 3725 routers (R4, R5, and R6).
3. Keep the current 3X Cisco 2500 series as backbones.
4. Keep the current 4X 3550 switches with EMI IOS.
5. Keep the current 2610 (already setup as a frame relay switch).
Average price for 2611XM with 128M RAM and 32M Flash is around $130 on Ebay (around $400 for three). As for the 3725's with 256/128 memory configuration, the average is about $200-$225 which is still way better than the $450-$500 price tag of 1841's.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
IPexpert is a NO GO
Won't be getting the IPexpert stuff anymore as they changed their pricing for August.I have decided to stick with INE for now and will be ordering their Advanced technologies class along with the latest labs.
Monday, July 26, 2010
IPExpert
So I finally convinced my boss to order the IPexpert CCIE VOD class and the latest workbooks. Given that we are a Microsoft shop (systems/apps department), it was a big thing for me to be able to get it approved. I'm waiting for the DVD's to arrive so I can start on the MPLS stuff. One thing that they don't cover in the video classes is the troubleshooting portion of the lab...but the workbooks sure do have the troubleshooting area.
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