Read um and Weep Here’s the short list of books I would recommend to read (at a minimum) during your lab preparation. Find yourself a shady spot outside, and crack the spine of each of these page-turners; it’s the only chance you’ll have to see the sun for a few months:
Cisco Certification: Bridges, Routers and Switches for CCIEs, Second Edition by Andrew Bruce Caslow
Internet Routing Architectures, Second Edition by Bassam Halabi
CCIE Prof. Development Routing TCP/IP Volumes I & II, Jeff Doyle
Cisco LAN Switching (CCIE professional development)
Cisco Catalyst LAN Switching by Louis R Rossi, Louis D. Rossi, Thomas Rossi
Configuring Cisco Routers for bridging, DLSW+, & Desktop Protocols by Tan Nam-Kee
My own lab prep book, once I finish writing it (look for it sometime in 2003)… J
Building your own Pod:
One of the most important elements of your CCIE lab preparation is having equipment to practice on. My advice would be put together a home pod watching every dollar very carefully, and then sell it on ebay when you’re done. If you do everything right, your practice time should only cost you the interest on your credit card, and the depreciation in the value of the equipment. What follows is a list of what I think has the makings of a great CCIE Lab practice pod:
· One Cisco 2511 router to use as a terminal server. A 2509 would work fine if you have one, but trust me, before long you’ll need the extra ports.
· A router with multiple Serial ports to use as a Frame Relay switch. Cisco 2522’s are popular for this, although in my own lab I use a 2610 with an 8-port serial module.
· Two Cisco 2503’s.
· One Cisco 2504 (for the FatKid labs).
· Four or five more Cisco 2500 series routers with a selection of Serial, Ethernet and Token Ring ports, (I love 2513’s, because they have all three).
· One ISDN emulator.
· Two 3550 switches loaded with Enterprise software.
· One Cisco 3620 or 2620 with at least one Fast Ethernet port and a pair of FXS ports for VoIP.
· Two CAB-OCTAL-ASYNC. These 8-lead octal cables (68 pin to 8 male RJ-45s) are used with the terminal server
· One MAU.
· Lots of DTE/DCE serial cables, AUI adapters, patch cables, and crossover cables.
* Please note that all 2500 series routers should have 16 Megs of memory, 16 Megs of Flash and be loaded with an Enterprise Version of 12.1 IOS appropriate to its physical configuration.
The only things missing from the list above is ATM and a Token Ring switch. I consider ATM just too darn expensive for a home pod, and a 3920 is hard to get, expensive, and easy to configure. For both these technologies, I would recommend renting some on-line lab time.
OK, The Equipment Looks Good on the Rack, Now What?
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