Sign up with GoogleSo Ive decided to take the leap of faith and hop on over to networking which I have suddenly developed a keen interest in. I do not have any formal experince but willing to compensate that with hands on training via a Cisco certified training institution and the likes. I've gone through the 74+ threads on this topic but most are old, so I need help with updated info on simulations and videos that i can get hold of, if you have any material please pm me or post here....any help and advise, please id appreciate that
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Ah dude, I've got something awesome for you! I'll pm you
For training you pay for, I guess torque IT is the way to go, for DIY, Ponder has it spot on.
GNS3 is without doubt, the no.1 utility for passing the CCNA
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Awesome - post or pm, also quite interested
Yes im actually doing training with Torque IT, every folk i know who has gone through them has a decent job,
dont mean to get ahead of ma self here but would like to specialise in this field, how hard or easy is it to be considered 'the go to guy'
thank you much guys
the "go to guy"
If you wanna contract or consult...at least 10 years experience...I am not kidding here...miminum of prof level qualification (if you have a good name in industry) else its CCIE for you..
Routing and switching is the most common, and you are gonna have to know ur stuff....ISP environments are the way to go for this..
Security, i would recommend banking or financial institutions
Voip....i have no clue...
But all in all, you are gonna have to work the ranks, get experience...the piece of paper just gets you an interview...
go speak to an ISP senior level guy and you will see how little you know about networking and more importantly troubleshooting
Doing my ICND2 on Monday, passed the ICND1 a few weeks back with a 928\1000
Using the ICND set from Cisco Press and CBT Nuggets. Lots of messing around on PacketTracer and a switch my work loaned me.
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Ja, experience is a biggie. Seen plenty of paper CCNPs etc but they still don't have a clue.
Troubleshooting methodology is lacking I reckon, this is something that requires an analytical mind & things you pick up with experience. I used to hate those calls I got round about lunchtime on a Friday from the NOC because a fault has now become critical after 2 days and you have to drive 100km to site because the NOC & 3 stooges on site cannot figure it out because they lack a telecoms background in order to understand whats actually wrong
Doing my ICND2 on Monday, passed the ICND1 a few weeks back with a 928\1000
Using the ICND set from Cisco Press and CBT Nuggets. Lots of messing around on PacketTracer and a switch my work loaned me.
where did u get them CBT nuggets from VonPickle, you can send me a link ill download em later
For everyone that want study materials for CCNA and CCNP I would HIGHLY recommend Train Signal CCNA & CCNP.
Sorry for derailing but does anyone know about some decent training materials in Juniper Networks?
I'm writing my JNCIA next wednesday and I'm thinking of doing my JNCIS early next year. Any suggestions?
Thanks guys
Sorry for derailing but does anyone know about some decent training materials in Juniper Networks?
I'm writing my JNCIA next wednesday and I'm thinking of doing my JNCIS early next year. Any suggestions?
Thanks guys
Ja, experience is a biggie. Seen plenty of paper CCNPs etc but they still don't have a clue.
Troubleshooting methodology is lacking I reckon, this is something that requires an analytical mind & things you pick up with experience. I used to hate those calls I got round about lunchtime on a Friday from the NOC because a fault has now become critical after 2 days and you have to drive 100km to site because the NOC & 3 stooges on site cannot figure it out because they lack a telecoms background in order to understand whats actually wrong
indeed, and things always go south when you have something planned for the evening or its a friday...
troubleshooting for me, tells me how good someone really is. Nothing is more valuable to a company, especially a financial institution, than someone who can resolve issues quickly
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Lol, what on earth was wrong?
i think we have all had those tickets which just wont go away....
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i think we have all had those tickets which just wont go away....
Fortunately it was not my doing or due to a lack of interest on my part, problem was with Cisco.
It involved 3660 Telco + NM-2W + NM-2CE1U. The NM-2CE1U would lose sync on a E1 dropping the link going into a down/down or up/down (cant remember) locked state which required reboot or reseat. TAC case was opened and after some time troubleshooting they handed it over to a developer in engineering which sent me special debug ios images (no, not the ios debug command) to load and collect logs with low level hardware information of which we went through a few, after a long time he managed to replicate the problem in their lab and narrowed it down to a microcode/firmware bug running on the NM-2C1U. This however did not happen on all modules. After making some changes to ios we tested it for a month or so and then they released it to rest of the world via the normal ios updates they do. The entire process took about a year, the TAC log was huge and the email trail even bigger with TAC contacting me each week and the account manager following up each month.
It was actually a very interesting situation, those special debug logs were huge and gave you details all the way down to the physical IC's, cpus, registers etc, not stuff you will ever see in a normal ios version. Fortunately having studied elec. eng. I could actually interpret some of the stuff just for interest sake but the majority of it was lost on me.
Beyond this it was very rare not to meet all our SLAs each month.
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Nothing you could do about that hey.
One thing I do love about network trouble shooting... it sort of makes me feel like a detective
We had this problem where our hosts use a 3750 for dhcp, but if they were on VLAN10 would get the gateway for VLAN20, All other settings were fine. Oh, and it only happened on IP phones.
After much investigation, it turned out that some numb nuts connected a little 4 port switch to 2 access ports on different vlans on the same switch.
Luckily, for them, no one has owned up to this.
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One thing I do love about network trouble shooting... it sort of makes me feel like a detective
We had this problem where our hosts use a 3750 for dhcp, but if they were on VLAN10 would get the gateway for VLAN20, All other settings were fine. Oh, and it only happened on IP phones.
After much investigation, it turned out that some numb nuts connected a little 4 port switch to 2 access ports on different vlans on the same switch.
Luckily, for them, no one has owned up to this.
Sent from my HTC Hero using MyBroadband Android App