I think I’ve figured out part of the problem I’ve been having. I haven’t been entirely focused on my studies, and I don’t really have a set goal right now. I’ve been dancing with the idea of skipping the CCNP and going straight to the IE written. Because of that, I’ve been reading chapters in [...]
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As the chorus of the ska song goes: “sell out with me, oh yeah… sell out with me tonight!”
I started this blog after reading CCIE Pursuit, Ethan Banks, Bit Bucket, and a few other blogs on a regular basis. It was cool to see the progress these candidates were making, and to see some of [...]
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I feel like a horrible blogger. I haven’t updated in a few weeks. We’ve gotten into the full swing of this transition at work, and I’ve been working like a dog. I haven’t had a day off in two weeks, and there’s no stopping in sight.
I currently work in a Foundry shop, but with our [...]
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My wife managed to keep the kids out of the bedroom long enough for me to get through the IPv6, IS-IS, and Route Map/VLSM/NAT videos from Trainsignal yesterday. I still don’t understand how I did so poorly on the IS-IS section of the BSCI exam two weeks ago. I knew EVERYTHING covered in [...]
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I haven’t done a bit of studying since I failed that exam a week ago. I wanted to jump right back on the horse, this week, and get to studying my weak points (IPv6, IS-IS, and multicast). My wife and both of my daughters came down with the flu last weekend, and I’ve [...]
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My wife took the baby with her to another baby shower today. She left me alone so that I could get some studying done. I dunno what happened, but I’m going to call today a wash. I struggled to focus on anything, and stay with it. I made it through another [...]
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I made it through all four of the trainsignal OSPF videos from Trainsignal. I will say that I am completely impressed by Chris Bryant’s teaching and have been very happy with the products so far. My only issue has been the brief explanation he gave on stub areas/NSSA. I found his explanations of NSSA, specifically, [...]
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Alex Skinger from Trainsignal contacted me last week, and asked if I would be interested in checking out the BSCI/BCMSN/CCNA training materials from them. Until this point, I’ve been relying solely on Cisco Press books and reading things on the internet. I figured I’d give the VBT a try and see how I [...]
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I think I’m coming down with a stomach bug/flu. I’ve been sick all weekend, and was very lethargic all day.
Even still, I made it through the route manipulation/redistribution chapters and labs today. The labs only covered redistributing RIP into OSPF and OSPF back into RIP. nothing with RIP/EIGRP, or EIGRP/OSPF, so I [...]
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Made it through IS-IS and the labs this evening. My wife’s done a decent job of keeping the kids out of my hair long enough to get me through all of this.
I also looked through the Network Academy curriculum and chapter test for IS-IS. I ran across a question that I didn’t see [...]
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