Chronicles of CCIE journey

Have not been writing. Well, I am and will be on break during November. Annual Leaves and Sister's Wedding :)

I've been putting off prefix based BGP filteting throughout my networking life.
I never worked in an ISP, my work mostly comprised of Enterprise campus and data networks design, implementation and support and a lots of compressed voice over ATM, for GSM providers.
So, I never cared for BGP as such. Read a little, and read enough for CCNP.
NOW, when I am trying to get through BGP in detail, I just cannot ...
Maybe its a bad week :S
Maybe its Ramadan and because of fasting, during the day I cannot concentrate.
Maybe because in the night, I smoke like a chimney to account for the whole day passed without a smoke and it messes with my head.
Whatever the reason is, BGP stares in my face like the big monster :(
Before I started the prep, my initial thought was that QOS and Multicast will give me a hard time.
Now it looks, I may never be able to complete BGP.
Its been such a bad day, and from the looks of it, next week won't be better even

Again a very good week.
My targets were to cover OSPF and IGP redistrbution, and I was able to complete these.
OSPF took more time than I imagined, and redistrbution a lot lesser.
Maybe since I am only doing advance technology labs for the while and network is never too complex, redistrbution has been easy.
Next Week Targets: BGP (basic), Multicast.

Well while he previous week was hazardous in the sense that I couldn't do anything, this week has been good.
Completed almost everything related to switching, did IE advance technology switching labs. Also completed EIGRP, IE Eigrp advance technology labs and from the work book did arounf 6 or 7 random labs concerning EIGRP and Switching.

Next week Targets: OSPF, Route redistribution.

Today, rather yesterday was bad day. Got to sleep at 6.A.m and was up at 11 again for office.
The series of fuck-ups continued.
In short, wasn't able to do anything with CAT6513's failed module.
CWM installation failed, even a solaris guy who graciously tried to help me couldn't know why. I keep cursing myself for recommeding this bloody NMS to customer. If only I knew I had to install it :( and I wish for once things happen the way installation documentation says they'd.


Came back home at 6 and decided to wrestle with dynamips. I've been foolishly asking around for dynamips help, and today I decided to give it a go.

From a bad day arrives my moment of cheer:)
I've been finaly able to get dynamips running and made .net files for firsr 4 IEWB labs :)
Its a different story that my notebook almost explodes at 6th router instant.

Tomorrow again after work, have to go to a dinner.
Lolzz, thought about backing out only to realize, it was me who invited all :D

Hopefully on thursday and Friday ( Weekend here) will get to complete switching at least.