So i didnt blog for the past couple of days, well just been a bit busy, and also i have decided to blog about what i did the night before on the following day.
The past couple of days i worked on IE Lab 2 -3. I have noticed that building consistency with focusing on a few specific topics is helping me with speed, & insight on how to narrow down what configuration options can/cannot be configured for a solution. It used to be when i first started, an hour or more might be spent pouring over the doc cd and cisco.com itself for an answer. Now i have come to the point where i focus simply just on the doc cd unless i get completely stumped. I see that as a sign of progress as well as being able to manuever around the doc cd with much ease. Whomever said practice makes perfect sure was right.
So lessons learned last night. ( alert some of this stuff might be too easy for some of the gurus out there ). You can manipulate the no frame-relay inverse-arp by creating a sub interface and dropping the dlci in there, as long as you dont use it, then its good to go. Just an alternate method for not using the no frame-relay inverse-arp command. But i would prefer to do the forementioned command since its faster to type out then creating a sub interface. If i get a task that i question myself on then via the doc cd find if more then one solution applies.
Taking notes. I am really bad at this but what i have done is force myself to make notes in the google calender on a daily basis on what i need to visit/revisit after going through a lab. Some of the notes make sense to only me, not because English is my second language but more on the manner that i write them in. I hope that made sense. I have started along with my alias list a how to configure list as well. Its more of a list on how many ways can you configure the task on a question. ( I will post said list once i have compiled enough information ) This idea btw was taken from Antonie Hennings blog.
Well folks overall my decision to narrow down my studying/labbing on a few technologies at a time is paying off. I am going through the technologies/protocols ( FR, Eigrp, Rip & PPP ) fairly fast, completing one lab each day. As you can see i added in PPP also since my speed with the other three is picking up. Next month i plan on adding in ospf and then moving on to Bgp. In the past it was i was going through all of the fore mentioned and Ospf/Bgp which was taking me around 2-3 days to complete. I wasnt learning as much since i had stretched myself thin.
