minimum requirements for ccnp home lab

[2ccnp]

I have passed the ccna and am preparing ccnp lab. Then I will proceed to CCIE ofcourse.
Advice me to create mini ccnp home lab with cisco routers and switches.

 

[scraig84]

This totally depends on you, your knowledge, the way you learn, and your ability to remember how things work and the commands involved to do things. Personally, I have always been able to pick things up fairly well from books and be able to sit down later at the equipment and start plugging away like I've done it before. However, I also have friends who are the opposite and have to have the equipment directly in front of them and the books are no use to them. I'm not saying that I had no contact with the equipment while I worked on my CCNP, but I am just saying that the range of various ways to learn is wide. I personally had nothing for a home lab and just tried to look at equipment that I had access to (without changing the configs) when I needed to see something. So the "minimum" requirements in my mind would be a book.

 

[rburke]

See right now I'm working on my CCNA, but hopefully pretty soon will take the test, pass it and move on. I am the opposite of scraig84, I like to have as much hands-on time as I can. I learn by trying a config and then seeing if it works. If I run into a problem then I will look it up, and usually not make that mistake again. I do have books, for more than reference, but usually I just read over them pretty quickly for a basic idea, and then build from there using the hands on activities. So, like scraig84 said, it is really up to you and the way you learn.

burke

 

[Guest_imported]

< I just completed my MCSE 2000, i have been a CCNA, CCNP since 1999, and now I was thinking about getting my CCIE. I had to get the MCSE 2000 cause my customers asked me of it. So i got it in two weeks. Pretty much i go to a book store and spend about a grand on books every couple months. but i have access to every kind of Cisco router, switch, NAS, Servers, cause I run a huge network that I choose to keep anonymous. However, I have decided to grace your presence with my word of advice. That advice is, open the book and read it, for example. ISBN 1-56592-942-x title = CISCO IOS in a nut shell, read that and learn it... next , wax the floor, and then, for the final lesson for today 2ccnpson,,, you must learn how to read the next book. and this important , i read all day long, and this book is very very good. you must read it, do you hear me... do you Fu*&^% hear me... the ISBN is 0-07-212083-5 and title is CISCO internetworking with windows NT & 2000. For a bonus I have decided to clue you in on not only knowing the IOS commands, and the networking infrastructure that they glue together, but also you need to know layer 2 functions, layer 3 functions, and the reason why we use both. Understanding the IOS is key because essentially the layer 3 router is compiled of a very simple config file which starts with a common first couple of lines like the following &quot; version 12.1
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption&quot;
and then there is the image files, understand the meaning of each letter in the image file,
then there are the IOS commands
&quot;ip cef
no ip domain-lookup&quot;

then depending on the network architecture, you will have VLAN interfaces, with VLAN MEMBERSHIP MODES (3 types, usually) , remember a virtual lan , just like an ELAN, emulated Local area network, the golden rule for these bad boys is use VLSM, Variable length subnet masks save a whole lot of addresses. So once the Vlan is created by you add all your router interfaces to the VLAN, heres an example interface that is a member of a VLAN

interface GigabitEthernet1/1
no ip address
switchport
switchport access vlan 10
switchport mode access
no cdp enable

, notice all of the IOS commands, now , wouldnt a book with exact explanations be nice,,, wow, what a concept...

SO as far as passing your CCNP, good luck.


MASTERMAN....


p.s. just understand the everything, get those books , go to the beach , relax for a few weeks, and read them, if you have a lab, or a real network, then break it, its the best way to learn, remember when all the phones were out in north america, well, that never happened again...

later.

 

[Guest_imported]

< I just completed my MCSE 2000, i have been a CCNA, CCNP since 1999, and now I was thinking about getting my CCIE. I had to get the MCSE 2000 cause my customers asked me of it. So i got it in two weeks. Pretty much i go to a book store and spend about a grand on books every couple months. but i have access to every kind of Cisco router, switch, NAS, Servers, cause I run a huge network that I choose to keep anonymous. However, I have decided to grace your presence with my word of advice. That advice is, open the book and read it, for example. ISBN 1-56592-942-x title = CISCO IOS in a nut shell, read that and learn it... next , wax the floor, and then, for the final lesson for today 2ccnpson,,, you must learn how to read the next book. and this important , i read all day long, and this book is very very good. you must read it, do you hear me... do you Fu*&^% hear me... the ISBN is 0-07-212083-5 and title is CISCO internetworking with windows NT & 2000. For a bonus I have decided to clue you in on not only knowing the IOS commands, and the networking infrastructure that they glue together, but also you need to know layer 2 functions, layer 3 functions, and the reason why we use both. Understanding the IOS is key because essentially the layer 3 router is compiled of a very simple config file which starts with a common first couple of lines like the following &quot; version 12.1
no service pad
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
no service password-encryption&quot;
and then there is the image files, understand the meaning of each letter in the image file,
then there are the IOS commands
&quot;ip cef
no ip domain-lookup&quot;

then depending on the network architecture, you will have VLAN interfaces, with VLAN MEMBERSHIP MODES (3 types, usually) , remember a virtual lan , just like an ELAN, emulated Local area network, the golden rule for these bad boys is use VLSM, Variable length subnet masks save a whole lot of addresses. So once the Vlan is created by you add all your router interfaces to the VLAN, heres an example interface that is a member of a VLAN

interface GigabitEthernet1/1
no ip address
switchport
switchport access vlan 10
switchport mode access
no cdp enable

, notice all of the IOS commands, now , wouldnt a book with exact explanations be nice,,, wow, what a concept...

SO as far as passing your CCNP, good luck.


MASTERMAN....


p.s. just understand the everything, get those books , go to the beach , relax for a few weeks, and read them, if you have a lab, or a real network, then break it, its the best way to learn, remember when all the phones were out in north america, well, that never happened again...

later.

 

[wybnormal]

*never* is a very long time... I fully expect Telcom to follow the rule of the more complicated something becomes, the more unstable it becomes. Hence, phone system outages will become the norm as software becomes more complex, the push for new salable features cut test time and the old timers who know this retire and the young guns make the old mistakes anew.

And for the record, I know of two rather large statewide systems that failed within the last two years. They just were not published as well.

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