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Man it's coo I'll just make snide remarks at night when no one is watching and everyone can respond to them during normal people hours. Starting in May I'll be doing the day shift so in a couple of months things will be back to relative normalcy.

My boss asked me, "What's eye-eye-dee-ecks?"


... Oh boy

Merk wrote:I regret to inform everyone that these forums are probably going to die now. I will be working the night shift so unless you all are insomniacs then I'm going to be making posts to myself.

It's been a great couple of years but really I was probably going to get banned anyway so maybe it's best that we all move on.

lol do you ever re-read shit that you've posted a long time ago and chuckle to yourself?


Anyway, work is going well but I feel like I've sort of plateaued as far as learning and being introduced to new shit goes, I am taking the CCENT certification exam this Saturday to start my illustrious career up the Cisco cert ladder and pad the fuck out of my resume. Who needs to know what they're talking about when the certs can do the talking for you, am I right?!?!?

I have been promoted from Tape Monkey to SIP Slinger

I will still be around for data center shenanigans if anyone would like to come and visit us however I be out in the cubes and not in the NOC

Merk wrote:My boss asked me, "What's eye-eye-dee-ecks?"


... Oh boy

What did you say?

I believe I said something to the effect of, "Don't worry about it"

Scheduled my CCNA Routing & Switching exam for Saturday, October 4th (my birthday)

I really, really hope I don't fuck this up otherwise I am out $150

If you don't have any, I have some Cisco gear you're welcome to use for a lab. They're not being used for anything else at the moment, anyway. I have 5 Cisco routers (2x 2651XM, a 2851, a 2811, and a 3745) and two switches (a 3550 and a 2950). I also have a couple ANCIENT Cisco switches (they will definitely be running CatOS) laying around somewhere else if you care. A couple of the Cisco routers are voice-ready, if you care, and all have various TDM interfaces in addition to Ethernet. The same two are also ATM capable.

I've also got some stuff that can do TDM DS0 TSI on DS1 (T1) interfaces, if you want to play with that. The 2851 can do it on the MFT cards, and I also have some stuff that's intended to be used as TDM ATAs, but one has 6x T1 interfaces and can do TSI across them all.

I might be interested in dicking around with the switches since there aren't any emulators for that kind of shit and the test has a strong focus on every aspect of STP and a little bit of VLAN stuff. The CCNA for the most part is still theory and as I understand it the most complicated thing you'll need to do on the simulator questions is run a couple of "show" commands and interpret what you see to answer the test questions.

Spanning tree can be a bitch. There are some libraries and tools out there to simulate it, though I don't think any of them support the (Cisco-proprietary, though somewhat commonly implemented by other vendors) PVST or (IEEE-standard) MSTP, which is where stuff can start to get really confusing and/or difficult to configure and predict behavior. Cisco might have such a simulator somewhere.

VLANs are pretty straightforward, though I wish Cisco would get off their butts and widely support GVRP (or I guess just go straight to MVRP, which they do have on SOME devices) like everybody else, rather than sticking with VTP on almost everything.

Also, if you just want to lab up some bigger spanning tree topologies, I can just give you remote console access to my entire lab rack with a full mesh physical topology. It's a total of 10 switches and 5 routers. The routers are all Cisco, while the switches are a mix of Cisco, Foundry/Brocade, and HP Procurve. You just configure as desired and enable/disable ports to create your preferred physical topology.

Sure! If you're offering I'd like to get access to that sweet, sweet lab rack

I'll have to get it cabled up and get the console server set up for you. Do you know if you'll need all 10 switches or just the Ciscos or some other subset, etc.?

I'll also need to know when you want to use it. I don't leave it on all the time because it's frigging loud and pulls something like 500W just to sit there and heat my office up.

I'd need just the Cisco switches and probably just 3 three of the routers so I can get more practice in on configuring IPv4/6 OSPF and EIGRP on real ass hardware.

As far as when I need it, pretty much any time as long as it's Monday through Thursday -- I won't be doing any lab studying on the weekend. If you want to set it up next Monday or whenever it's most convenient for you then that would work for me!