For those of you who read this unpretentious blog, you must have noticed this week-end a maintenance window.

The DD of my hosting has crashed. To be more precise, it is crashing. His time to live is near to expire…

So to save my files on this server, a simple tar and scp is not enough. In fact, if you do this, you will create inodes and store on your FS. You will have lot of chance to have corrupted tarballs.

Ok. If you have read my last post, you could say : “Ok, but when do you begin for real ?!”

I have beginning by working on a study plan. When the ennemy is hard as can be CCIE, you must have a plan to beat it. This is what I have now. I think I will update it during the journey toward my objective, but I think it is a right roadmap. For me, it is a TODO List and something which remind/force me to go on…

After a long period withouy working on my CCIE study, I will now plan and work hard toward this objective. I will try to explain, write about my journey toward CCIE Routing and Switching written exam.

Be prepared to read new content about Cisco, CCIE and telco here.

Best regards, Christophe

Week-end equals some fun. First of all, I think I can give you some fun for around 30mn.

For my side, it was this. It will be cool to tshoot this little MPLS topology :

Thanks to Daniel for this MPLS troubleshoot session :)

During this tech fun session, I invit you to listen to : http://youtu.be/3f-JhB9ZfZQ

Rouen, after winning Continental European Hockey cup, wins this week-end the Ligue Magnus (French championship). Thank you guys for this great season !!!

Here it is a little challenge. You will find two CPE connected to two different PE. The two CPE are used in “fail-over” model by using HSRP. The two CPE dial on PE. CPEprimaire dials through a Bridge, CPESecondaire dials directly.

CPEPrimaire :
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on LAN fastethernet:
standby 5 ip 10.0.0.1
standby 5 preempt
standby 5 track Dialer 1
standby 5 priority 105

CPESecondaire :
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on LAN fastethernet :
standby 5 ip 10.0.0.1
standby 5 preempt

 

Just to give you a new challenge. It is supplied by IPexpert.

The URL is :  http://blog.ipexpert.com/2012/01/04/ospf-and-bgp-puzzle/

Have fun with this new challenge. For real, it is not really hard ;)

In reading Cisco France blog, I have discovered this platform : ASR903.

Thank you for the blog post from Jerome Durand (Cisco) about IOS-XE (v3.5) which will be running on ASR903. This piece of hardware is not already sold by anyone, even Cisco. This router seems really powerful in a compact place in your rack. Read it :

• MPLS-TE
• MPLS-TP
• MPLS-OAM
• Hierarchical VPLS (HVPLS), Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS), EoMPLS
• OTV
• in addition to basical functionality.

	We have bought this camera product by Nikon. It is the successor of the D60 (2007-2008). We have bought it to capture the smiles and the laughter of our daughter. After lot of reading on internet, we decided to buy this Nikon D3100 with to 2 lens (18-55 and 55-200), 14,2 Million of pixels…  You can read technical specification on www.nikon.fr.

It will give me some work on technical specification and readings to use correclty this affordable and interesting reflex camera.

	I have received at work this Cisco Small Business units to test it b efore we can sell it to customers. It seems really well. It is well designed (some linux distro is behind), and customized. I love all these features and smart/quickly applied and in action. UC320W is a good prodoct for Small business office.