IEWB Vol II Ver. 4.1 Lab3 finished…

Finally finished. This has a few difficult ones in the System Management section.

• Getting an image from from another router in case of failure – I never would have figured this one out. I really didn’t even know where to look in the DocCD. I opened the SG and took note of the alias parameter for the ftp-server command. That one was a needle in a haystack.
• Autoinstall – interesting concept. I guess the big this with this is being allowing the DHCP/BootP requests through and allow for directed broadcast on the subnet the DHCP server is on. I didn’t think to use the .255 when only the VLAN was given.
• I spent a lot of time on the very last task in the lab. I was thinking of using the parser-view commands to get the only the needed commands for the user, but the solution was just using privilege level. I don’t agree since the “only” keyword was used, but anyways…

I got a 69 on this lab, better that my 50 on the last difficulty 6 lab I did (IEWB Vol 2 Lab 3). I am improving, but I need to move on to a difficulty 7 and see how I do. I have about 8 weeks to get really where I need to be to feel ok about this lab exam.

I have been hammering a lot of QoS – reading, configing (if that’s a word), and reading some more. It does help that I am writing a QoS Basics course at work. I do get somewhat mind-jumbled between the devices that I am writing the course for at work and Cisco QoS. I am really taking in the QoS for switches and now need to put the whole picture together. Man, just understanding the ratios, formulas and such can make my head spin.

I’ve already started on IWEB Vol 2 Lab 4. I spent too much time on frame relay, because I was so exhausted I couldn’t think. I need to get more sleep (and get my 18 mo. boy sleeping in his own bed). Maybe more solid sleep would help, ya think?