Labbing...

Rented a rack session from INE's graded labs today.  All in all, it was a good experience.  I did have some times where the lab froze up, and I had to disconnect several times.  But, like I said, for the most part it operated as intended.  I spend the first part of my day getting used to INE's diagrams out of their Volume 1 WB.  Once I got the hang of things I started cranking through labs 1.1 - 1.21.  It was a good day, touching on native vlans, dtp, router-on-a-stick configs, vtp, pruning, etherchannels (L2/3), dot1q tunneling, and spanning tree.  So all layer 2 stuff basically, and I still have 29 sections to go...  I can easily see how CCIE study's can go well beyond the 1000 hour marks :)

BGP...almost done

Getting a good refresher on BGP, but considering I just finished it up for the CCIP, I am not learning a whole lot that is new to me; but there still are some things.  My notes need to be organized again...yaaaa.  They are almost 10,000 words, and over 41 pages long now.  I think that they will be  GREAT review paper for me before I go in for my written.  Cant wait.....

LSA Propogation in Different OSPF Area's

Well I have been doing ALOT!  Reading a bunch more on OSPF, and hitting IGP redistribution really hard.  I made some video's tonight, mostly doing exactly what the title of this post says.  I goofed in the video, but learned alot from it.  Normally if I do something stupid, or miss something, I dont post the video...but here I felt like it could be a good learning experience for everyone.  It certainly was for me..so a moment of humility on my part will hopefully teach someone, somewhere, a little more about OSPF :)  2 videos...P1 and P2.  I have found they are REALLY time-consuming to do..so I might not post to many more in the future...they deter me from my studies a bit.  Here's the topology for this lab: