It’s been a while since I heard this song on the radio : “Rolling in the deep”. So it is giving me the curiosity about this singer : Adele. She is giving a pretty jazzy (I don’t think it is the right term) atmosphere and her melodies are melancolic and strong. I like it ! It is really appreciated on these times where the weather is near of an early automn…

Yesterday, I received the first one of a CCIE book’s series. So, I received : “CCIE Routing and Switching (certification guide)”. 1080 pages to study networking technologies deeper toward CCIE Written (350-001) exam. I can’t wait to open this book and other (TCP/IP vol 1 and 2 (to buy)) to study. But before, I must finish Qos Exam (642-642), the last part of my CCIP studies. After reading table of contents of CCIE cert guide, I am really happy to have choosen CCIP course before test my knowledge against CCIE…

Qos, MPLS, BGP studies/knowledge acquired during CCIP will be great appreciated for CCIE studies :)

	I am not really as we can say a gamer. I don’t have any PS2, PS3, Xbox or whatever. But, I have really liked Diablos series. I have ended these two last games.
For those of you, that like and wait for Diablo 3, it may help to wait by reading this article : http://diablo3.judgehype.com/index.php?page=commentaires&n=123421. Sorry it is in French.

	I do some work in the house. It arrives at the end. I am really happy. As well as to the work of electrical wiring as network wires in the house ;) Here is come some pictures… => http://jupiter.mcom.fr/~clucas/blog/index.php?static11/gallery

	If you are a SecureCRT Manager or putty CM user, I think GCM (Gnome Connection Manager) (which run under Linux) is for you. => http://kuthulu.com/gcm/?module=home&lang=

Update: You can use pacmanager too : http://sites.google.com/site/davidtv/

To answer to BGP problem about BGP and static route (big subnet) to Null 0 : http://lacuisinedegandi.net/post/2011/06/20/Quand-Null0-et-BGP-peuvent-causer-probleme.

A solution can be :

R2#sh run | inc track
track 10 ip route 217.169.255.1 255.255.255.255 reachability
ip route 217.169.240.0 255.255.240.0 Null0 track 10

Where 217.169.255.1 would be IP of loopback IP address of an iBGP/Transit eBGP router. So that, if it is unreachable, static route to 217.169.240.0/20 will be removed and announcement to an eBGP neighbor will not be sent.

This blog seems deserted since one or two months. There are some reasons about this. First of all :

The death of my mother. 14 months after my father, she is gone… I don’t have enought words and want to talk about it here.
God bless them and gives us a little happiness in these dark times of life (The grandfather of my wife also died in the last two weeks).

For those of you who search for a good trafic generator, I recommend you : Mausezahn aka ‘mz’. It is built-in in good linux distro.

The website is : http://www.perihel.at/sec/mz/index.html.

• The command line documentation : here
• The interactive mode : here

Source: the GCU-Squad!

There’s some new stuff in Cisco world. We are now able to access Cisco-Labs directly there. These labs are planned to fill the pratice in certification. The official page is here. I think I will use it when MPLS Cert time will be there…

Lab 2-1 Establishing the Service Provider IGP Routing Environment Lab 3-1 Establishing the Core MPLSEnvironment Lab 5-1 Initial MPLS VPN Setup Lab 5-2 Running EIGRP Between PE and CE Routers Lab 5-3 Running OSPF Between PE and CE Routers Lab 5-4 Running BGP Between PE and CE Routers Lab 6-1 Overlapping VPNs Lab 6-2 Merging Service Providers Lab 6-3 Common Services VPN Lab 7-1 Establishing Central Site Internet Connectivity with and MPLS VPN Lab 8-1 Implementing Basic MPLS TE Real interesting labs, aren’t it ? You can access/read an interesting point of view on @etherealmind website here.

To keep it in mind :
OSPF adjacencies only form over primary networks, not secondary networks.

Source : http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk365/technologies_tech_note09186a0080094050.shtml