What is the best exam test preparation?

Like wrote previously, I’m now intensively doing a research to find out which exam test preparation is the best to help me on the CCIE journey. Doing some search on google, but still unable to draw a conclusion.

Some folks on several forum said that boson is a good one. Unfortunately, I’ve never found any testimonial that somebody passed the CCIE by helping of boson. It’s really weird, it is really good why nobody admit that they are using boson to help their CCIE journey? Some guys just tell don’t use testking, don’t use bla bla bla, but they don’t tell which one is good. It leaves me with no clue, and makes me thinking that they are just showing their power but not sharing anything to the forum.

Finally, I’m still sitting here without any decision yet. May be I’ll try NetMasterClass just to see how good it is.

Time to start CCIE journey

It’s the time to start my CCIE journey. So far, I’m still not sure where to start yet. I have done several browsing and still not found a light yet. I need to find a good book (if there is any), and exam preparation test to measure my understanding. None of them assured me yet.

However, to make me feel not too disappointed, I think that the two blogs below taught me several lessons. I’ll put both of them here so I can find it easily in the future:

http://brokenpipes.blogspot.com/

http://www.ethanbanks.net

I’m still digging if the books offered by the ccbootcamp and  preparation test offered by netmasterclass.net is useful. Anyone has experience with both of the materials ?

Now I need to take s rest…..

Passed ONT

Ups, forgot to record that I passed ONT on 2 Oct 2007. It was the last CCNP exam that I took and passed. What next ? Unfortunately I have to redo my CCNA, it is expired already.

Network troubleshooting on ubuntu

# ifconfig <– to see the network interface

# ethtool ethX <– to see if the NIC is disconnected or not

# ethtool -S ethX <– any error on NIC ?

More ? Click here

Passed ISCW

Today I passed ISCW exam with score 988. It is not a perfect score. I was expecting 1000. Hopefully I will get a better result for the next exam. One more test to be CCNP.

Passed BCSI

Today I passed the BCSI exam with score 925. There are still 2 more exams to be CCNP.

OSPF Neighbor states

There are 8 states of OSPF neighbor, i.e:

1. down
2. attempt
3. init
4. 2-way
5. exstart
6. exchange
7. loading
8. full

For troubleshooting, use the commands below:

• show ip ospf neighbor
• show ip ospf interface

Dinner on the weekend

Below are the list of my previos dinner:

- know that fuzz testing is actually a blackbox testing, a good idea to find a bug rather than waiting for the reported bugs

-  gateD is not free anymore, unable to gather the source code in consequence.

- Zebra is renamed to Quangga. An anwer of why I coud not find zebra anymore.

I’t s time for bed now.  I’ll have quangga for breakfast or lunch sometimes.

tcl/expect to automate cisco configuration

It’s the time of learning tcl/expect today. My first script is to read a template configuration from a file and change all of my cisco switch configurations according to the template in one click by using the tcl script.

I like it better than perl since the tcl can work well on my win box without having to run under cygwin. Cool, isn’t it ?

First Automation with expect.pm

Finally I completed my first automation script to change several cisco switch/routers using expect.pm. By using this script, I can save a lot of time to change my switch passwords in one line command. The rest of the job is taken by the script.

Now I can be ready of managind a thousands switches and routers with similar configuration. But, who will give me the routers ?

Allright, if you are interested to see this script, just follow this link and send me any feedback if you have any.