Well it’s Sunday night and I’m still studying away. I’ve got so much left to cover I can only hope I’ll know the right things. Book #14 out of my book list was great to make sure I’d covered the basic but going through a (hopefully) up to date Testking test I’m not sure whether I’m prepared enough. I seem to score between 50 and 80% on the various topics and I’m only like half way through this test…

What I have been up to though is creating some quick reference pages for BGP, OSPF and EIGRP. Hopefully that will help me to keep things in my head. Follow the CCIE R&S link at the top right if you’re interrested in them, feel free to use them for your own study.

So it’s back to my practice test and praying I’ll know enough this Tuesday.

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For those pursuing R&S certification too, do check out my box of gems. It’s still small but hopefully will grow fast with things one needs to know. Additions are highly welcomed. Have added a section for lab prep too.

Things to know…

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Sometimes things are just too simple to see. It appears a left over MTU statement on a gig sub-int prevented an OSPF neighborship to come up. The software on the 7304 was SBC (One of the new Broadband S builds) which required a hard conffed MTU due to dot-1q [mtu 1504] but as QoS was broken there (no CBWFQ/LLQ) I went back to plain 12.2(25)S.

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For all those who wonder what it was like. ICT-office has put two videos online…

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Right, it’s loading and due to the baud rate of 115200 currently at 13% so I’ve got some time to write this little “note to self”. If anyone else finds this useful then I hope you’re not working away like me at 0:48 in the night.

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The saga continues: vpnv4 route-reflection crashes bgpd just after a vpnv4 peer comes up.

bugzilla.quagga.net [2009-01-07: bugid no longer available]

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Lest I forget: Next Saturday my piccie with the directors (couple?) of ICT-office should be in the Dutch news paper “De Telegraaf”. Didn’t ammount to much really but having my picture taken and Rowdy rubbing his hands while I answered some questions from a reporter did feel nice…

Update #1: Nothing in any paper that I know of yet so am assuming it’ll never show up anywhere.

Update #2: My parents did spot the article somewhere but no piccy of me in there. Oh well…

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Last night’s gala was a nice mixture between social networking and musical surprises. The latter mainly due to the fact that the chosen theme was: “nieuwe en bijzondere combinaties” which kind of translates to: “new and unusual/special combinations”.

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Gallery link:

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Sadly isisd is still in it’s infancy. Seems that the database is built but the routing table is only populated with what is in the neighbour’s routing table… Support I’ll have to route statically for now. If anyone has some good quagge isisd information sources please let me know.

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If anyone knows what the Dutch ICT-gala entails then drop me a mail…

Easynet has given me tickets for this gala evening on the 14th of March, it’s organised by ICT-office which seems to be a lobby organisation. ‘Young professionals’ will be able to do some networking and key business people will be present. Not sure if it comes down to big shots looking for potential employees or not. Suppose I’ll just have to wait and see what the evening will bring.

I do know that I’ll have to rent a tux and Hayley will have to rent a gala dress. Oh how annoying these perks are…

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Anyone ever heard of ‘Strict Source Routing’ or ‘Loose Source Routing’?

Well it’s in IPv4, CLNP and IPv6, but no-one seems to use it. Please leave a comment if you think I’m wrong! It could be ever so usefull for network monitoring and reporting if one could specify the route a packet should take. One could test, monitor or report on links / paths which one can’t do now due to SFP (Shortest Path First) routing, if only… Sigh

Hint: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ip-parameters

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I’m glad Radia Perlman manages to scatter some funny anecdotes into her book “Interconnections”, this one is about the 6 TOS bits in the IP header (page 244):

Some people have affectionately referred to the -IETF Differentiated Services- working group as “200 bald men fighting over 6 combs”.

It’s funny to see the history as she’s describing the future in her book which shows how fast it’s dated. She wrote “Interconnections” in 2000 but it’s still a great book explaining fundamental issues in a comprehensive manner, my print is a 7th edition from March 2005. Definetely a book to use as network protocol reference due to the many explanations as to why things are the way they are.

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Found out today that Comcol.nl can’t deliver the last book I need either! Checked Ciscopress to no avail, they do list the book and it’s price but state:

This publication currently is not for sale

Right back to Amazon Marketplace then. Ordered it there this afternoon so will have to wait for it to arrive, which will probably in about 4 to 6 weeks time sigh. Still waiting for one of the books I ordered through Marketplace on the 13th of Dec. The other book I ordered there, different company/person, was waiting for me on my doormat when I can home from X-mas in the UK.

Update: Joy, oh what joy! Got an email back from the ppl I ordered the book from through Amazon Marketplace. They’re sorry but have run out of the book, they’ll remove the listing on Amazon (which apparently will take 2 to 3 weeks). Good thing is they’ll credit my creditcard.

Thanks to my father-in-law for the tip: Barnes&Noble.com provided usefull eventhough their shiping & handling is extortionate. So get it from B&N if you need this book, no complaints at all…

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It’s finally official: BSkyB has bought Easynet: press release. [press release was removed, Can not be bothered to find an archived version]

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