So much to do, so little time. It’s been tiring lately, work and family have led me to decide to stop the CCIEing for the time being. I just did the RS written a couple of weeks ago and got recerted until  2013, which is very cool, plus that gives me 18 months to sit the new RS blueprint that is about to be implemented in Oct 18th. Will focus on lighter certs until I can have some things straighten out, the next several months I’ll...

Been struggling with keeping up with studying and then writing here. It’s been very busy at work with a Contact Center we are deploying, takes a toll to stay late everyday to do stuff that you can’t while everyone is working. And I consider voice a lot less entertaining than Security or RS, by far. I will be back at working on Frame Relay from the beginning in the next few weeks, I’m sure I will cause we are reaching a good...

After trying to start with this for the past few weeks I managed to hit the keyboard for the first lab on the workbook, particularly the one that goes through with creating a FR hub and spoke topology using R1 as hub and R2, 3 and 4 as spokes. This is quite easy imho, on the hub you go like this: int s1/0 ip add 192.168.234.1 255.255.255.0 encap frame Since most labs are connected in a full mesh topology the most common thing is that they ask...

As I type this Khawar is still lecturing on the SL1 , it’s been an intense bunch of hours, 12 hrs a day for 7 days straight is certainly a challenge. But warriors don’t fear challenges, they charge ahead, proud and brave, all is left at the end of the course is that feeling of how little you know, how much you still have to practice if you want to be as good on a different track. In the following weeks I will be trying to relax, sit...

Back in 2007 I promised myself I would become CCIE RS by the end of the year and then go on with the Security track afterwards, so I started to read on for the written part while I finished my last few months of studies towards my Master’s degree. A month after graduation, I passed the RS written, it wasn’t very difficult to go through an exam after reading so much stuff. I started my lab preparation with the buying of material from...