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		<title>SP done</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a previous post I quoted the phrase &#8216;a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step&#8217;. It also ends in a single step, in this case a single word: &#8216;PASS&#8217;.  This calls for another quote &#8216;laus deo semper&#8217;. I will post some more details soon, first some quality family time and guilt-free call of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=987</link>
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		<title>INE ospf traffic engineering challenge</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While browsing blogs, when I should be labbing, I came across INE&#8217;s OSPF Traffic Engineering challenge. I normally ignore these because I happen to see them when they usually already expired. Well this one somehow managed to pull me in. Petr has a very valid point, most often real network challenges are fixed with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=969</link>
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		<title>Dynamips/Dynagen NET files for IPX SP workbooks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another item to scratch from my &#8220;to do&#8221; list. I built them before the Vol2 and Vol3 merge and not sure what changed to the topologies if any. If you are using the post-merge workbook I &#8216;assume&#8217; that you will need to switch between the two .net files depending on the lab.
Here they are:
Dynamips / [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=958</link>
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		<title>SP Content manager Vincent Zhou introduces himself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First, have a look at the post, some important leads are given towards future plans for the SP track, although we knew it has been coming for a long time:
https://learningnetwork.cisco.com/message/58601
The most important bit, at least for me is:
&#8220;CCIE SP will continue to develop in line of SP industry requirement, a new version is on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=952</link>
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		<title>SP lab Switching vs Dynamips</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a short post regarding the above, should have posted this long ago. 
I often get the question or see someone asking this on the forums. &#8220;How much switching is required in the SP lab?&#8221; or &#8220;Can I prepare using only dynamips?&#8221;. The short answer is you can rely 100% on dynamips for SP preparation. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=949</link>
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		<title>The best way to predict your future is to create it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, I have been away from studying for two and a half months. It is hard to believe that time went by so quick. Time is one of the most mysterious things, one day you are preparing for a lab the next two years have passed. The last two months have been hectic, both at [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=940</link>
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		<title>Thank you for coming, please come again &#8211; Bangalore</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About an hour after the lab, while still researching my OEQ answers the results arrived. By this time I already knew that I got one completely wrong because I did not have an idea what the abbreviation stood for and the second question I could only remember two of the required four answers. So it was game [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=926</link>
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		<title>BGP fast-external-fallover &#8211; Common confusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most will know the feature and what it does, but to recap the process level command:
R5(config-router)#bgp fast-external-fallover
R5(config-router)#no bgp fast-external-fallover
This feature will enable fast fallover in the event of a link failure for all neighbors peers. In layman terms shutdown the bgp neighbor as soon as the interface reset is detected and not wait for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=916</link>
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		<title>Old habits: Soft-Reconfiguration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While on the subject of old habits, I had to mention this one. I remember back when studying for CCNA and maybe even CCNP that it was always recommended to configure soft-reconfiguration in order to propagate route policy updates/changes without hard resetting the bgp neighbor. This is one of those things that sometimes just becomes routine, a habit, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=904</link>
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		<title>Another day, another CCIE track &#8211; SP Operations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I initially started with this post and thought hard about whether this post is a knee jerk reaction to another SP track. A couple days later and nothing has changes. CCIE SP Ops is still not a winner.
Sometimes when news is made you either get a positive or negative vibe. When the rumors surfaced about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=889</link>
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		<title>Autonegotiate &#8211; The debate continues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The saying, old habbits die hard holds true to this one. Quite a while ago I read an article by Greg Ferro regarding the force speed and duplex myth. Today I stumbled on Terry Slattery&#8217;s blog regarding the same &#8220;autonegotiate duplex or not&#8220; topic. For those that dont know Sir Slattery, he is practically CCIE#1. Yes, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=870</link>
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		<title>Mixed feedback on SP OEQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last week and a bit I have been doing what I consider preparing for the OEQ. My method of attack consist of reading a topic on the blueprint and then labbing up what ever I read. Again a simple approach. After reading the first feedback regarding the OEQ on the SP lab, my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=864</link>
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		<title>CCIE Worldwide stats &#8211; RS still dropping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A month after the first RS number drop of 48 Cisco updated the stats again, this time the RS numbers dropped by a further 62 or about 2 a day. Interesting that so many people don&#8217;t recertify.
Comparing the stats from the beginning of 2009 with 2010:
Total new: 2136
Total RS: 1382
Total SP: 622
Total Double: 438
Total Sec: 340
Total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=861</link>
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		<title>BGP Best Path Selection Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of those topics that is really fundamental to passing Cisco exams and labs or more importantly, predicting the behavior of BGP, is knowing the BGP route selection process well.
Following is a summary for quick reference.
1. Next_Hop: The next hop of the BGP route has to be in the routing table else if it is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=336</link>
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		<title>BGP scan-time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BGP scanner process monitors the next hop of installed routes to verify next-hop reachability. It is also responsible to select, install, and validate the BGP best path. By default, the BGP scanner is used to poll the RIB for this information every 60 seconds. During the 60 second time period between scan cycles, Interior Gateway [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=409</link>
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		<title>CCIE SP gets OEQ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[OEQ to be tested on SP from 4th Jan 2010. Guess I will have some use for that extra month after all. Just glad I worked it into the study schedule. Now, the next question, how to prepare for this and what to expect. If the RS feedback regarding the OEQ is anything to go [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=846</link>
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		<title>CCIE Data Center</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Very interesting track that is making the rounds in the usual gossip corners. Now I have already decided SP will be my last CCIE (excluding CCDE), but Data Center would be very tempting. Wife would kill me though  
Apparently it will replace/consolodate the current Storage track which I think is a good idea. Storage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=842</link>
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		<title>CCIE worldwide stats &#8211; RS numbers dropping</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I never thought this would ever happen: RS numbers officially dropping, SP taking the lead. Probably just a glitch in the system while the cheaters/vendors/360 program catch up. I wonder whether the 360 ads will change their 1.2 pass ratio.  From the latests stats: 71 New SP ccie&#8217;s of which 20 were RS holders. That [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=837</link>
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		<title>Game plan two</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The definition of a game plan is any strategy devised to reach a given objective (From en.wiktionary.org/wiki/game_plan). As someone once said, not to plan, is planning to fail. Therefore I need a concrete strategy for the next attempt. Game plan one was simply to invest all my effort into mastering the technologies. This I believe [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=829</link>
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		<title>Postmortem &#8211; Brussels</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As promised a bit more about the Brussels lab (a month or two over due). It is probably the most documented venue on the net so I wont go into too much detail about the venue it self.

Lab day started off well. The proctor was late but this was a minor, almost expected. In fact I preferred to start [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://21500.net/?p=817</link>
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