parlor tricks...

from packet pushers...

http://packetpushers.net/how-to-fail-the-ccie-lab-exam/

this one part really stuck with me today...

The config section had some curves as one would expect and a huge amount of time pressure, but my fears of tons of dirty tricks and wacky configs needed to work around things seemed mostly unfounded. I liked discovering this as it means the current incarnation of the CCIE lab (at least, the lab I got) was less about parlor tricks and more about just being able to crank out a wide variety of features, configs, and tuning accurately, and in a short period of time. That’s the right direction for the exam in my opinion.

this is an astute observation...

parlor tricks...

will you ever use eigrp outside your home lab or gns3? c'mon...

i heard sheba in finance slapped a rogue dhcp server onto the network today... good thing we had dhcp snooping tuned properly... that damn sheba... where does she find the time for her exploits between all her spreadsheets and stuff...

often  as i study route i think of this... will i ever get to actually make a virtual link in a production network... doubtful... something like that is good to know in case your company ever merges, and merges networks, but is that realistic...

especially for routing... you turn the shit on, it works, game over...

frame relay is good to know, i know, but i'll never see it in production again... some of my best friends were dlci's... years ago i implemented an atm connection on the edge; i'll never see that again... what about using a cache engine; if you put your faith in that kind of garbage you are nuts...

the women come and go, talking of michaelangelo...

how much of ccie is actually realistic... you work for a company with a large lan, but on the edge it has a half dozen bgp routes... maybe one day you'll even get to soft reset one once...

yeah, i did a bgp soft reset last week... hell of a thing... i was really concerned about the soft part though...

i learn these things because i want to learn them, and often knowing full well that i will never be able to save the day because someone inadvertently changed the timers in ospf and i was the one who discovered it, and set it right...

bob, what'd i tell you about those ospf timers... damn...

it is often silly, but i still love this shit...