The Walterland Blog

Well, I have begun my journey towards obtaining the numbers... I'm not sure why right now, but I felt like documenting this journey as something to look back on. I'm not sure I will as I don't look back on any prior postings, but I am going to use this as my own personal CCIE journal as I inch my way towards the finish line.

For the past week I have been reviewing the Advanced LAN and WAN topics... Specifically

LAN: VLANs, VTP, EtherChannel, STP, Advanced Switching Features
WAN: HDLC & PPP, Frame Relay, Traffic Shaping, ATM and ISDN

This is basically just an overview of the material at this point... As the CCIE is changing in a few months I am going to need to replace this material as well (as it still has ISDN and no MPLS). Next up on the topics is Internal Routing Protocols. I found this portion of the CCNP pretty interesting so I am looking forward to it.

My home lab is... stil lacking. I have the Cisco CME deployed as well as the phone sets... I purchased a PoE switch so I am not restricted to deploy phones and WAPs where power is available. I still have to get a few more routers, another 3500 switch and deploy the PIX.

All and all... I think everything is moving in the right direction...