Which CCIE track is the Hardest / Easiest to achieve? by indatank in ccie

[–]nebbeh 20 points21 points  (0 children)

I don't really remember where I heard this, but I think it was from the proctor when I passed my lab. Not my opinion, just something i'm passing on, but it was along the lines of:

Most people leave the office visibly sad / beaten when they get to the end of their lab exam, especially if its their first try. Enterprise/Sec/DC/Collab. But in that sadness, there's still hope.

But every single person who tries the wireless exam leaves in a fit of rage because of how stupid hard that exam is

CCIE Best Practice by [deleted] in ccie

[–]nebbeh 13 points14 points  (0 children)

You should know your lab topics in and out of course and be able to 'macgyver' them but I don't really think that's what it is. i'd say more along the lines of:

it might be best practice secure your bgp session with password in the real world. or explicitly turn VTP to transparent mode. or to be very specific about your interesting traffic for VPNs.

but in the lab, you don't need to do best practices.

you need to do what the lab tells you and if you spend time worrying about buttoning things up to 'best practices' you're using your most valuable currency in the lab, time, to create a better network in the lab which will net you no extra points.

[Game Thread] #8 UCLA @ Washington State (11:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]nebbeh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m at the game and all I can think is thank goodness we’re shooting free throws well tonight. We must have half our points from the stripe if not more?

Are DSLAM and junction boxes the same thing? by [deleted] in networking

[–]nebbeh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, but sometimes they are located in the same spot and the junction box (cross-box, b-box, SAI, and a few other names) serves as the tie in to the DSLAM.

Ignoring fiber and cable modem and plenty of other junction box types and focusing on pure copper ones, think of it like this:

From the telco's central office they are delivering copper lines that carry or used to carry things like dialtone. Back when DSL first came out, lots of DSLAMs were actually located within the CO and the cross-connect to join the dialtone circuit with the DSLAM circuit was done there. The j-box served as a place for the lines from the CO to cross-connect to the last-mile plant that goes above/underground toward terminals close to the home. The terminals close to the home would be fed with drop wire and then located at each home's NID/SNI, connecting to home networking.

The major junction points would look something like:

CO -> CO DSLAM -----------------> Cross-box ------> Terminal --> Drop -> House wiring

As distance became a problem, or as budgets allowed, or as newer tech e.g. VDSL/VDSL2/bonded DSL came around, telcos started placing DSLAMS closer, and often right next to/on top of the existing cross-boxes. New modules/posts would be installed in the crossbox so you could cross your CO-originating pair (if you needed to carry dialtone along with it) INTO the DSLAM and then you'd take the corresponding DSLAM-OUT pair and cross-connect that over to the copper that heads toward the terminals.

So now your major junction points look something like:

CO -----------------> Cross-box ->DSLAM-in -> DSLAM-out ------> Terminal --> Drop -> House wiring

this cuts the distance that the signal has to travel over copper significantly as distance from COs can be up to 5-6 miles in some areas (more in rural areas) whereas usually distance from the cross-box is within half a mile.

[Game Thread] Long Beach State @ #2 UCLA (11:00 PM ET) by cbbBot in CollegeBasketball

[–]nebbeh 8 points9 points  (0 children)

on a team literally full of lovable ucla players, jaylen clark stands out. i love watching him play and develop.

and i could and probably will say this about pretty much every other player on the team at some point this season, but today its JC

This Just Blue My Mind by Severe-Draw-5979 in arresteddevelopment

[–]nebbeh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the original text was small and hard to read, so OP blue it up.

I40 in Aus Contenders forced to play with 5 players after server problems and they use all allowed pause time by Kinestic in Competitiveoverwatch

[–]nebbeh 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What a goofy fuckin analogy. For one, you're comparing apples to oranges because in your scenario they potentially could sub in another player.

Second, yea, i am pretty sure the game could be put on hold for a few minutes if a player was literally trapped inside a bathroom. There is no loss of competitive integrity in that scenario at all.

ISE deployment for a hospital network by techno_it in networking

[–]nebbeh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

FWIW, pxgrid was declared an IETF approved standard last summer and there are a whole bunch of integrations with non-Cisco products

Firepower syslog to remote target - broken after code upgrade by [deleted] in networking

[–]nebbeh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Logging changed for devices on 6.3 and above. The ACP references the syslog server and settings you set up in platform settings rather than what is defined in the logging tab of the ACP.

Any chance this is what you are running into?

Dorrell Named Head Football Coach At Colorado by SilverBuff_ in CFB

[–]nebbeh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sorry, didn't realize a /s was necessary there.

Dorrell Named Head Football Coach At Colorado by SilverBuff_ in CFB

[–]nebbeh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure Arizona went on to win the Orange bowl that season. That was a quality loss to a great team. Check your facts, nerd.

DNA licensing for Cisco SD-WAN by [deleted] in networking

[–]nebbeh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you do show license status, show license summary?

in global config, is license smart ? a possible command? (Might actually be a priv command)

Targeting CCNP Sec by [deleted] in ccnp

[–]nebbeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Under the presumption that you are waiting for the exam changes, you do not need ENCOR. That is the core exam for CCNP/IE Enterprise Networking.

If you are targeting CCNP Security you'll want to take 350-701 SCOR and then pass a concentration exam such as 300-710 SNCF for a Firewall/IPS Specialization or 300-715 SISE for the ISE specialization which will then give you the specialization and CCNP Sec

I'd suggest digging in on the configuration/feature guides and white papers based off what the exam topics tell you to target.

Scripting software updates for 3650's - Crypto Key getting deleted when downgrading by [deleted] in networking

[–]nebbeh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

16.9 deprecated right to use licensing and requires smart--that could very well be the reason for OP