MY CCIE JOURNEY

got netmetrics ccnp lab guide and its a good one and can be completed swiftly .. so my plan after this lab manual is to go after that and then narbiks guide

any ways on to first of the left out lab . router dhcp services .lab 5-5

Lab 5-5 Configuring the Cisco IOS DHCP Server

Learning Objectives

• Configure and verify the operation of the Cisco IOS DHCP server

• Configure an IP Helper address

• Review the EIGRP configuration

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Scenario

In this lab, R3 will not be assigned an IP address. Instead, it gets one from
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP). R1 will demonstrate the use of
the ip helper-address command

though not completed with all of the topics i have started the simultaneous revision process .. started with ospf and made a drawing with points convered ... this is from the cisco official certification guide so as i shouldnt face any trouble while writing an exam ...

here are some of the slides .. feel free to comment upon if you find any mistakes .

making my way for ipv6 done with ccnp nuggets .. anyways today i faced slight problem with linux let it be the installation of files or playing some of the videos out there .. i had a dual boot with linux and windows so i rebooted several times and performed some of the necessary tasks ... i was doing this for the past several days and was relatively fed up but was ok for me .. i was thinking of this issue and was seeing ccnp nuggets in windows as it was copyrighted and wmv codec with copy right cannot be played under linux .. i thought of using converter to convert wmv to divx and see them in linux and they worked . as i was converting i got an brilliant idea of vmware workstation .. i quickly installed vmware in linux and then you can guess the rest of it .. i have installed windows xp in my linux .. with the help of vmware .. bingo . i could use xp and linux without any trouble

tip of the day : using linux is extremely helpful as it uses gns3 efficiently .. as we are addicted to windows , install windows in linux and for what ever reason if you are facing any difficulties start vm and enjoy with windows ..

installation is damn simple .. any help let me know ...

guday

Its been a while posting here .. but had my reasons as i was completely fed up with multicast .. though sounds simple while listening and doing but i couldnt get the deeper meaning of it .. any ways on to books for the exclusive study of multicast ... and there is a plan from my side .. iam going to develop power point presentations of my studies and i will upload to file hosting services so that some of you could download and see whats in there .. i was going through the hak5 seasons of episodes . they are based on hacking and some the technology underground cover ..

you can always vistit them at www.hak5.org and download an episode and see it for you self . one such thing was clustering .. i heard about this few months ago and thought .. that it would be very hard to implement clustering .. but its not .. it damn easy and the advantage is that two computer can be shared by one process .. in the episode the power was used for hashing the rainbow tables for the windows password but in our case we have even more evil intentions , we can use it for gns3 ... there are ways to do it without clustering but its a bit hard .. anyways i have a old computer sitting in my home doing nothing . so i will try to integrate it with the new one and will let you know ...

guday

simple steps to follow ..

* those who want to install ubuntu linux can order their copy for free at

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu

you can either download or request it .. i would ask you to do both of them ....

* check the compatability with your system most of the desktops should not have problems what so ever .. even all of the laptops are covered well except some of the wifi part

* as linux ships with many of the non commercial softwares you cant even play mp3 files .. for that you need enable repositories .. you can find the entire guide here

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Hardy

* downloading and installing is straight foreward for gns3 ... it should work well other wise browse any of the docs or blindhog ..

after you could install gns3 its all same from there on .... there is a package called compiz fusion which is rocking for eyes .. the guis effects are to bee seen by everyone who hadnt

any help let me know via mail

regards
raaki

my health is not supporting me these days as there is a climate change .. neverthless .. i have made some advancements ...

i have got craze for linux and installed a red hat 9 in my school days on a old compaq computer .. from then on there was some thing or other which was poking at me .. coming back ..

as i have already told you that i would increase my ram for gns3 soft run . but now i have changed my mind to postpone it .. the reason is linux

beleive me or not .. linux has a better management of ram and memory than windows which i used to use for previous labs ..

i have installed ubuntu 8.04 64 bit edition .. had some problems with wifi and vga stuff fixed all of the issues in these two days .. installed gns3 .. obviously not successful in my first attempt due to some of the mistakes but saw it now and posting it immediately ..

i could start upto 17 routers in gns3 with linux in hand .. dint done any lab on it though ... and observed memory ...

firstly the memory was at 919mb out of total 1.7gb availabe ram memory .. and swap memory was around 3.8 which is double the ram ofcourse ..

now i have installed 4 of routers and ram increased to 1100mb and from there on it stopped increasing even though i have increased the number of routers .. the reason being swap memory is taking over it now .

yes the ram memory increase stopped at 1100 mb and virtual memory began to increase . virtual memory = swap memory and so i could increase number of routers to greater extend without any system hang .

so i would recommend ubuntu for users who has a memory hang experiences with their pc's . also tried with dynamips .. but i couldnt do it for long ... as i am used to gns3 ..

so all in all instruments are sharper again for me ...

guday

today as mentioned went to prometric partner for the scheduled exam 70-113 which was offered free by microsoft and discovered that information cannot be retrieved from the server for this exam . i am dissapointed as i had put some quality time for the past 4 days and effort .. ne ways got to get down with cisco ... my apologies for giving you the advise to take the exam .. meet you redistribution lab

regards
rakesh