Archive for April, 2009

Updates to the Lab and Written Exam for the CCIE R&S. Cisco is currently doing a lot for the CCIE. some great changes are introduced starting from the 18.10. 2009. After this date, Cisco might be testing also on new equipment, updating to 1800/3800 on 12.4(T) IOS images. Mayor new topic will be MPLS and Layer 3 VPN’s. I was wondering, while this topic was ... Full story

To debug frame-relay there are several possibilities. The first useful command is: sh frame-relay pvc With this command you could list all currently configured pvc’s. This may look like: DLCI = 314, DLCI USAGE = LOCAL, PVC STATUS = ACTIVE, INTERFACE = Serial1/1 input pkts 1 output pkts 0 ... Full story

Thanks very much to the author Chris (Christophe Filot) for dynamips. Which is very helpfull preparing for the lab. Mostly bugfixes, but also now with ISL trunking support. GNS3 is also a nice tool for drag and drop a topology with the needed devices and IOS versions. It`a still a little bugy sometime, but if you can live with that, give it a try. It`s ... Full story

Hi everyone, the new section has been posted and should appear under every account subscribed to IEWB-RS VOL1 v5.0. This is an initial update, containing the following 35 technology-focused labs: Establishing iBGP Peerings Establishing EBGP Peerings BGP Update Source Modification Multihop EBGP Peerings Neighbor Disable-Connected-Check Authenticating BGP Peerings iBGP Route Reflection Large Scale iBGP Route Reflection with Clusters iBGP Confederation BGP Next-Hop Processing – Next-Hop-Self BGP Next-Hop ... Full story

You want to setup your CCIE lab with Simulators and don’t want to spend a lot of money into expensive hardware on ebay? You just nieed an Cisco 7200′er Image and can simulate the machine. Interconecting machines is also possible. Check out: http://www.ipflow.utc.fr/index.php/Cisco_7200_Simulator With the frontend: http://dyna-gen.sourceforge.net/ Here is a nice explanation of how to set it up:... Full story

The latest version of the R/S Core Knowledge Simulation released today. This new version includes the use of Self Graded questions in order to allow the product to more closely simulate the actual Lab Exam Core Knowledge section. Here is a sample of a four question quiz from the prouct: 4 Question Quiz Sample The product also includes: 20 Question Random Quiz 40 Question Random Quiz Answer Key Version with critical More ... Full story