Back on Track...!

1st June:

Me back on Track Finished CCIE SP Written And now going to study for SP LAB, first of all i will mark my current standings in SP lab blue print.

As from Detailed Blueprint of SP lab from InternetworkExpert:

GREEN == Good
Yellow == Average
RED == No Concept

• Bridging and Switching

  • Ethernet

    • VLANs & VTP

      • VTP Modes & Pruning

    • Trunks

      • DTP

      • ISL & 802.1q

      • Allowed VLANs

      • Native VLAN & Tag Native

    • SVIs & L3 Ports

    • STP

      • Root Bridge Election

      • Features (Portfast, UplinkFast etc)

      • Redundancy

      • RSTP & MSTP

    • Etherchannels

      • LACP & PaGP

      • Load-Balancing Methods

    • QinQ

      • MTU Issues

      • L2 Protocol Tunneling

  • Frame-Relay

    • Interface Types (DCE/DTE/NNI)

    • Subinterfaces, DLCIs & PVCs

    • LMI

    • Inverse-ARP & Static Mappings

    • FR Switching

    • Multilink Frame-Relay (FRF.16)

  • ATM

    • Subinterfaces & VC Mapping

    • PVC

    • SVC

      • NSAP Address

      • NSAP Prefix Learning and ESI

      • Signaling and Q.2931 (QSAAL) PVC

      • CLIP

    • ILMI

    • ATM VC Encapsulations

    • Inverse-ARP and Protocol Address Mapping

    • Frame-Relay Interworking (FRF.5 & FRF.8)

  • PPPoE

    • PPP IP Address Allocation (IPCP, DHCP)

• IGP Core Routing

  • Intergrated IS-IS ***

    • Level-1/2 and Areas

    • Network Types

      • Point2Point

      • Broadcast

    • Mesh Groups

    • Route-Leaking

    • Metric-Style & Metric-Types

    • Redistribution & Filtering

    • Tuning Timers

      • Hello/Dead

      • LSA Generation/Throttling

      • PRC/SPF Throttling

  • OSPF

    • Area Types

    • Network Types

    • NSSA Area

    • Filtering (Inter-Area filters, Database, Dist-Lists)

    • Redistribution

    • Summarization (External/Inter-Area)

    • Virtual-Links

    • OSPF Timers

      • LSA Flooding & Pacing

      • SPF Throttle

  • Policy Based Routing

• BGP

  • iBGP & eBGP

  • BGP Timers & Convergence Tuning

    • Advertisement interval (neighbor advertisement-interval)

    • VPNv4 Import Scan interval (bgp scan-time import)

    • General Scan interval (bgp scan-time)

    • BGP Next-Hop Trigger

    • Fast Fallover

    • Keepalive & Holdtime

  • BGP Scalability

    • Route-Reflectors & Clusters

    • Confederations

    • Synchronization

  • Redistribution & Filtering

  • Outbound Route Filtering

  • Route Aggregation & Attributes

  • Conditional Route Injection & Advertisement

  • Route Dampening

  • Communities, Coloring & Signaling

  • BGP Attributes & Best-Path Selection

  • Backdoors

  • BGP Multipath (iBGP/eBGP, DMZ Link BW)

• SP Multicast

  • PIM-SM/DM

  • PIM-Bidir

  • PIM-SSM & IGMPv3/UDR

  • RPF failure and static mroutes

  • IGMP

    • Versions

    • Timers

    • Filtering

  • Static-RP/Auto-RP/BSR

  • MSDP and Inter-AS Multicast

  • MP-BGP Extension for Multicast

  • Anycast-RP

  • IGMP Snooping

  • Stub Multicast Routing

  • 3550

    • IGMP Profiles

    • MVR

• MPLS

  • Label Distribution

    • LDP/TDP,

      • Directed Sessions

      • Authentication

    • BGP Send-Label

    • Advertising Labels

    • Label Filtering

      • LDP and ACLs

      • BGP and route-maps

  • Cell-Mode MPLS & Label Merging

    • ATM Control-VC

  • MPLS TE

    • IGP Configuration

    • RSVP Settings

    • Attributes & Affinity Bits

    • Holding & Setup Priority

    • Path Options

    • Explicit/Dynamic Route

    • Routint Options: PBR, Static route, Autoroute

    • Cisco Forwarding Adjacency over TE tunnel

    • Inter-Area TE

    • MPLS TE with L3/L2 VPN

      • PE-PE Tunnels

      • PE-P, P-P Tunnels & LSP recovery

    • Unequal-Cost Load-Balancing

• L3/L2 VPN

  • L3 VPN

    • VRF & RD

      • Controlling Route Import/Export

      • VRF Lite

      • VRF Select & Route-Map VRF selection

    • MP-BGP

      • VPNv4 AF

      • Extended Communities

      • Route-Target

      • Filtering

      • RRs & Scalability Issues

        • ORF

        • Communities & Partitioning

        • BGP RR-Group & Partitioning

    • PE-CE Routing

      • OSPF

        • Super-Backbone and Extended Communities

        • Domain-ID

        • Sham-Links

        • VRF Lite Capability

        • Down Bit and VPN Tag

      • EIGRP

        • SoO Attribute

        • BGP Cost Community

      • RIP

        • Transparent Metric

      • eBGP

        • AS-Override

        • AllowAs-In

        • BGP SoO

      • Redistribution & Filtering

      • VRF Import/Export Maps

      • Importing from global table

    • VPN Topologies

      • Central Services

      • Extranet

      • Hub-and-Spoke (upstream, downstream VPNs)

    • Inter-AS VPN

      • Back-to-Back VRFs

      • Direct VPNv4 Exchange on ASBRs

      • ASBR Send-Label & VPNv4 Multihop

        • IPv4 BGP Route-Reflector for Label distribution

        • Redistribute into IGP + LDP

    • Carrier Supporting Carrier

      • IP only Customer Carrier

      • MPLS Enabled Customer Carrier

      • Hierarchical MPLS VPNs

      • Carrier Label Exchange

        • IGP+LDP

        • BGP+Send-Label

    • Multicast VPN

      • Default & Data MDT

      • PIM-SM/Bidir (ISM) in Core

      • SSM in Core (Ext.Comm/MDT SAFI)

      • Inter-AS mVPN

        • PIM-SM + MSDP

        • MDT SAFI + PIM SSM + PIM RPF Proxy

  • L2 VPN

    • Generic

      • ATM Cell Relay & AAL5 SDU Mode

      • ATM OAM Transparent/Emulation

      • HDLC Frame Tunneling

      • Frame-Relay DLCI-to-DLCI

      • Ethernet VLAN and Port Mode

      • PPP and IP address Assignment

    • AToM

      • PW Setup & MTU Issues

      • Inter-AS AToM

        • Back-to-Back

        • Label exchange

    • L2TPv3

      • Manual & Automatic Signaling

      • Authentication & Cookie

      • Sequencing & Keepalives

      • pMTU Discovery & DF-bit

    • L2 Interworking (IP/Ethernet, Local Termination)

    • Local Switching (with & w/o Interworking)

    • GRE/mGRE Tunnels

    • MPLS BGP VPN over mGRE

• QoS

  • Classification & Marking

    • ACLs

    • DSCP bits, TOS & IP Precedence

    • NBAR & Protocol-Specific Matching

    • Policers (Single/Dual-Rate, Color-Aware/Blind)

    • FR DE bit/ATM CLP

    • QoS-Groups

    • MPLS EXP bits

    • Tunnel Modes:

      • Uniform

      • Short-Pipe

      • Pipe

  • Congestion Management

    • Tx-Ring Tuning

    • Legacy Queueing

      • WFQ/CQ/PQ

      • IP RTP Priority

    • CBWFQ

      • Priority (LLQ)

      • Bandwidth

      • Hierarchical (Queueing at Subinterfaces)

    • Frame-Relay/ATM Per-VC Queueing (Legacy & CBWFQ)

    • WRED for Congestion Avoidance (Legacy & MQC)

  • Traffic Flow Control

    • Rate-Limiting

      • CAR & Cascading

      • MQC Policer

        • Single-Rate

        • Dual-Rate

        • Actions

    • Shaping

      • Legacy GTS

      • FRTS

        • Legacy

        • MQC

      • Class-Based (MQC)

  • QPPB

  • DiffServ Aware TE

    • Interface Subpools

  • 3550 QoS Features

    • WRR Queue Tuning

    • Classification & Marking

      • Policy Maps

      • Mapping Tables

    • Per-Port/Per-VLAN Classification

    • Policing

• Security

  • Application Level Filtering (NBAR)

  • L3 Security

    • Control Plane

      • Routing Updates Auth

      • Signaling Protocols Auth (LDP, L2TPv3, BGP)

      • Control Plane Policing

    • Filtering with ACLs & ACL Logging

    • RPF and Spoofing (Strict/Loose Mode)

    • CAR and Flooding

    • TCP Intercept and SYN-Flooding

  • L2 Security

    • Protecting STP (BPDU-Filter/Guard)

    • Port-Security

  • DDoS Mitigation

    • Sinkholes/Blackholes

    • RTBH Scenarios

  • Common Attacks

    • Worms & Viruses

    • Smurf/Fraggle/Generic Flooding

    • SYN-Flooding

    • Network Scanning

    • CAM-Table overflow, VLAN Hopping

• High Availability

  • NSF & SOO

    • BGP Graceful Restart

    • OSPF LLS

    • EIGRP NSF awareness

    • LDP Graceful restart

  • LDP Session protection

  • Tuning IGP Convergence

  • GLBP/HSRP/VRRP

  • MPLS TE FRR

    • Link Protection

    • Node Protection

    • L2 PW Protection

    • L3 VPN and FRR

• Management

  • SNMP

  • Syslog

  • Remote Access (Telnet/SSH)

  • NTP

  • Netflow

    • MPLS-aware Netflow

    • Flexible Netflow

    • Export Configuration

  • IP Accounting

  • Other IP Services

Ok Being very honest, its hell alot of topic which are in RED and i really need to work very hard for that because i will have to not only master them but i need to practice all these technologies too so, lets start by reading from REDs and try to improve the current standings with better coloring.

First TOPIC to bring from RED to GREEN is MultiLink Frame relay.

Study Status

Ok till now i have completed All CBTs almost all and now going through all books, little bit overview of all nuggets.

Nuggets
CCIE Service Provider Version 4.0
Excellent to start with, i would love to watch them again and again.

InternetExpert CCIE R&S V4
Good for foundation of knowledge and R&S concepts, have gone through once but will do it again and again.

CBT Nuggets- CCIE
Good and Comprehensive

Cat QoS NMC
They are good for QOS concepts.

NetMasterClass.IGP.COD.Video-LiBiSO
Excellent Nuggets, really liked them.

VPLS
Not too detail, very basic but good to start with.


Books
BGP_Internet_Routing_Architecture
Haven't completed yet, but found interesting.

Cisco.Press.-.CCIE.Professional.Development.Routing.TCP.IP.Volume.1.2nd.Edition
Very good book to start your CCIE Journey, learned alot of new concepts.

Cisco.Press.Cisco.Express.Forwarding
Excellent book, Excellent Book, i really recommend this book for every CCIE, i loved it and learned true concepts in it.

Cisco.Press.CCIE.Professional.Development.Inside.Cisco.IOS.Software.Architecture

Excellent Book, strongly recommended for CCIE candidates.

John Wiley & Sons - MPLS-Enabled Applications- Emerging Developments and New Technologies
Good book to start your MPLS journey, i havnt finished it yet but its very good and informative

Busy Day:

Today i could not study, cause of office work, in service provider Job u are not sure if you r free or not, ny time ny where customers catch you and you have to solve their problem well spent whole day in office while configurations of BGP authentications and LDP authentications, but i did implement my all CCIE Project in MS Project 2007 lol it will really help me tracking my progress :P

ok i have some time let me cash it :)

Start:

Ok The First Book Im going to study is

Development Routing TCP IP Volume 1, A book which every CCIE has admired so i will keep updating the POINTS, but tell u im very lazy :P

During Studies in 1st Chapter,i found some points interesting.

Functional Protocols: it Describes what something Does For example, "Request to Send" is the functional description of pin 4 of an EIA-232-D connector.

and
Procedural protocols describe how something is done. For example, a binary 1 is represented on an EIA-232-D lead as a voltage more negative than 3 volts.

My Road to CCIE

My Road to CCIE

Ok, The Rest days are over, Today is the first day im going to start my CCIE studies (Regular) , for that I have collected enough data, books, CBTs which I think would be enough if I study with more concentration and focus.
Ok here is the summary of contents I will be using for CCIE Studies.

Books:
Advanced MPLS Design
CCIE DESIGNING LARGE NETWORKS
CCIE Routing and Switching Exam Certification Guide
CCIE_Advanced_MPLS_Design
ccie_foundation
Cisco Press - CCIE Lab Study Guide
Cisco Press - Inside Cisco IOS Software Architecture 2000 (PDF) by CiscoNet
Cisco Press CCIE Professional Development - Cisco LAN Switching
Internetworking Technologies Handbook Fourth Edition
KnowledgeNet_Preparin_for_the_CCIE_R&S_Lab
Morgan.Kaufmann.MPLS.Next.Steps.Apr.2008
Springer - The Complete IS-IS Routing Protocol
Alex.Zinin.Cisco.IP.Routing.Packet.Forwarding.and.Intra-domain.Routing.Protocols
Cisco Press - Cisco BGP-4 Command and Configuration Handbook 2001 (CHM) by CiscoNet
Cisco Press - Cisco Ospf Command and Configuration Handbook (CHM) by CiscoNet
Routing.TCPIP.VolI.2nd.Edn
Routing.TCPIP.VolII
Cisco Press - CCIE - Practical Studies Volume I
Cisco Press - CCIE - Practical Studies Volume II


Books Need to Download:

Cisco Catalyst QoS: Quality of Service in Campus Networks
Cisco OSPF Command and Configuration Handbook
Troubleshooting IP Routing Protocols (CCIE Professional Development Series) Troubleshooting Remote Access Networks (CCIE Professional Development Series)
Design and Implementation of DSL-Based Access Solutions
End-to-End DSL Architectures
Internetworking Technologies Handbook, Fourth Edition
Planet Broadband
CVOICE 6
Building MPLS-Based Broadband Access VPNs
Layer 2 VPN Architectures
MPLS and VPN Architectures
MPLS and VPN Architectures, Volume II
Traffic Engineering with MPLS
Cisco Self-Study: Building Cisco Metro Optical Networks (METRO)
High Availability Network Fundamentals
MPLS Configuration on Cisco IOS Software
Troubleshooting Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Routing In the Internet, Second Edition

And Nuggets:

CCIE Service Provider Version 4.0
InternetExpert CCIE R&S V4
CBT Nuggets- CCIE
Cat QoS NMC
CCIE RS Labs Breakdown P4S
Frame-Relay
IE CCIE LAB strategy
IE CCIE SERVICE PROVIDER LABS BREAKDOWN
INTERNETWORK.EXPERT.CCIE.ROUTE.REDISTRIBUTION.DEMYSTIFIED.DVDR-HELL
IPEXPERT IPV6
MockLabs CCIE RS
NetMasterClass.IGP.COD.Video-LiBiSO
VPLS

Ok Ok Ok, I know these are the hell out of books, lol I never studied these books in 4 to 5 months but I need to because of my study plan,
I will study this all in 2 phases, in first phase studies would be for CCIE SP Written which im going to attempt in January 2009, This Covers all these books and Nuggets and a very light touch to labs, but Jan after written there will be no theory no books all labs with cisco univercd, so I need to finish these books before January then I will target workbooks and practice labs as much as I can cause my target would be to apply for the LAB in August.

In My phase 1 I have both CCIE RS and CCIE SP books, cause I will have to study for CCIE RS for foundation even then I can do good in SERVICE Provider.
Ok, Here is the material and Nuggets, now how will I keep updating this Blog, basically I will keep updating this blog not for everything but I will keep writing a new concept I will learn from any book, anything interesting, or anything which I would think that I have learned is valuable.

ok Basically in first phase i need to cover all these things after that i will start totally focused topic by topic studies for CCIE (SP).