To use or not use the broadcast option.

I started working on Vol 2 lab 6 tonight. Got through some of the tasks, didnt finish it up and am calling it a night. Overall i am getting faster at configuring, but now one thing is bugging me. I seem to be missing the point on when to configure the broadcast command. I know when the obvious statement is given requesting that multicas traffic is sent across the circuit, then the answer is to configure broadcast. Now i dont feel comfortable in posting the question from IE vol 2 lab 6 here, but for those folks who have it on hand, my question is if i configured broadcast across the board, would i still get the points for the question.  I posted about this on IEOC forum and am waiting to see what reply i get back. I went and scoured the doc cd about broadcast and it points me to the command portion of the cd.  Not much happening there on explaining the command, i didnt get that aha moment after reading the explanation.  I am beginning to wonder, am i getting overly concerned about this option. I know when the task asks not to use it and when to use it, but when the question doesnt ask either, then i sometimes end up screwing it up.

Ok thats my ramble for this Sunday evening. Hoping to hear something back on that. My main concern other then knowing when to use the option, is do i still get the points for the question. I guess i will find out when i do some mock labs.

Sunday lovely sunday.

So one last sunday to work before i get my freedom again. I worked out a deal with one of my coworkers to work Sunday so he can go to church, and in return he works on Saturdays. So far so good, i am holding on to the weekend days i worked for my trip to San Jose for the lab.

Ok now back to the task at hand and thats the daily study routine. I havent posted in a couple of days, there is a reason for that which i will discuss in a bit.  My lab work is going along just fine, i am now able to complete one lab on a daily basis, keeping in mind the technologies that i am only working on ( see previous post ).  So far i have completed up till lab 5. Tonight i plan on working lab 6. I have been dying to get to the higher labs ever since i got started and have finally reached them. I am looking forward to working on this lab and the remaining ones.

Well as i mentioned earlier i havent posted in a couple of days for a reason.  This past weekend i found out that someone i had met a while back recently passed their Security lab.  I found that the newly minted CCIE had visited with Cyscoexpert. Thus i decided to fire up mozilla and check out their website.  After looking at what they provided, i felt that this was a good approach to teach based on the individual students strenghts/weaknesses.  I placed a call to cyscoexpert and had a long conversation with Narem who was very gracious in discussing with me where i was at, and why i wanted to pursue the CCIE certification. Narem recommended that i visit with them for a week to see where i was technically with my skills.  Well i have been contemplating this now for the past couple of days, which is the reason for me laying low on the blogs scene. I thought about it long enough ( a couple of days ) and decided that i am going to take a one week session with cyscoexpert. I know what my weaknesses are, and yes i am working on them daily.  But i would like to engage someone else to see where i am at, and provide me with guidance.  I fired of an email to Narem asking if we could arrange a time in October, i feel that will give me ample time to work my hand at the technologies, while not letting me look like a complete novice when i show up for my session with them.  Now based on what i hear back from cyscoexpert, i might delay my lab date a few weeks or a month, depending on what their thoughts are about my skillset.

Well that sums up where i am at. Still working on the labs. I cant wait to knock out Vol 2 and then get started on Vol 3.  I have given myself till the end of this month to be well versed with FR, Eigrp & Rip and i feel my progress is going good.  Next month i plan on incorporating ospf for 2 weeks straight with redux of all the previously mentioned technologies.  Once done with Ospf,  the beast BGP will be added as well.  This is my layered approach and seems to be working out just fine for me.

Well time to get back to work.