Hey Guys,
So I thought I should probably have more to report than I actually do. But here's what today bore for me: I spent about 2-4 hours talking to Marvin this afternoon and this evening about various different areas of the SP lab (yep - it's awesome having the ability to get an IPexpert instructor for a few hours - you should try having access to one for a whole course ;) ). I bought a car off him to thank him for his time, so it was win-win (the car is great by the way, Marvin). It turns out that there isn't that much more to the SP lab than what was in the R&S one (I'm solid with what you'd expect - switching, IGP's, most BGP, frame relay, QOS). The difference seems to be that where the R&S one pushes you to understand the IGP's really well, the SP one will emphasise BGP and how it interoperates with MPLS and other protocols (and they threw in IS-IS - which fortunately I taught in the CCNP courses). I know where my weaknesses are - MPLS (mainly MPLS TE as I'm comfortable with the basics), L2 Tunnelling, ATM and PPPoE (I've only ever needed to configure that on 877 ISR's and there's a GUI for that). So guess where I'm going to focus first? :-) Tomorrow I start working through those labs in the IPexpert workbook. I have to work through every lab for IPexpert anyway, as I'll be adding comments into the master document as I go. My kickoff point will be Lab 9 on MPLS and once I've completed it (bear in mind I don't work in continuous blocks) I'll start on Lab 11 so by this time tomorrow I should have some comments. If anyone wants to work along with me I'll be taking questions and discussing those two labs over the next two days (yes, I know Friday is 4th of July, but I'll be around in the morning before I go to a party at Mark's place - yep, the famous Mark Snow: IPexpert's Voice & Security instructor). And for any of you in the Columbus area apparently tomorrow night is Red, White and Boom which has been talked up to me a lot, so the fireworks better be awesome. Work hard, study hard, play hard. That's my plan. Chat later. Cheers, Jared Scrivener CCIE2 #16983 (R&S, Security), CISSP Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc. Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 Fax: +1.810.454.0130 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
