Posted in CCIE 2.0, CCIE General, CCIE Humor, CCIE R&S, CCIE R&S Written, CCIE SP, CCIE Security, CCIE Voice, CCIE Wireless, CCIE Workbooks on Sep 22nd, 2009
12-day CCIE R&S Bootcamp students often indicate that the most important day of the training is Day 3 of the 6-Day Mock Lab Workshop. This entire day is dedicated to a discussion about successful strategy for passing the CCIE Lab Exam. The strategy discussion begins with effective study techniques, and then guides students through everything from the night before the exam, to what is best to do during the lunch break!... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE Humor on Jul 8th, 2009
Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend this year’s Cisco Live 2009 in San Francisco, and from the looks of the picture below it seems that I really missed out. Our own Scott Morris and Anthony Sequeira got front row seats to John Chambers’s keynote address! Hey Scott, what’s with the shorts? Was it casual Friday? 
For those of you that I missed this year I hope to see you next year for Cisco Live 2010!... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE Humor on Feb 1st, 2009
Number 10: “Will you please stop talking about VLANs at dinner parties!”... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE Humor, CCIE R&S on Nov 22nd, 2008
Part 3 – A Chapter Closes
Andrew Spruce arrived his usual 15 minutes early to the lab building at the Research Triangle Park Cisco location. He sat in the car with the heater running.... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Part 2 – The Arrival
Andrew Spruce emerged from the fourth floor elevator and checked the sign ahead for his room number.... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE Humor, CCIE R&S on Nov 9th, 2008
Part One – Take Flight
Andrew Spruce looked on in horror as the hard-backed, Jeff Doyle Routing TCP/IP Volume II slide from his unzipped travel bag and tumbled from the overhead baggage compartment. In what appeared to be frame-by-frame video motion, he watched as the book fell through the air, smashing the nose of the frail, elderly, female passenger.... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE General, CCIE Humor on Nov 4th, 2008
I’m currently working on a new design for a customer network, and am trying to decide which routing protocol to migrate to. Brian Dennis mentioned to me that some type of election is going on today… so I decided to have an election of my own!... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE Humor on Oct 20th, 2008
10. Attempt to download pornography.
9. E-mail Brian Dennis from your iPhone.
8. Urinate in your chair. (Errr, according to the proctors – THIS HAPPENED!)
7. At the lunch break, speak of your recent successful investment in Nortel.
6. Doodle on your lab papers.
5. Two words – format c:
4. Feint. (Yeah, this happened too!)
3. Play paper football with the candidate in the next cube.
2. Begin a proctor question with “I hate to bother you, you evil bastard, but…”
And the Number 1 Thing Not to Do While Taking the CCIE Lab Exam:
1. After verifying a successful 4-point configuration task, stand on your chair and scream “I am a Cisco Router God!”... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE General, CCIE Humor on Oct 12th, 2008
I’m over in London this week for a CCIE Voice Bootcamp and a support engineer IMs me asking a question. He needed to remotely reload a backbone router for a new rack but for some reason the standard enable password we use for the backbone routers wasn’t working. I asked him if he could just VPN in and reload it using the power controller. He told me he was telneted into the rack using his iPhone and wanted to just do it via telnet as opposed to opening a VPN connection. For a moment I thought to myself he was just out of luck but I then remembered the old regular expression bug that would reload the router (i.e. “show ip bgp regexp ([0-9]*)(_\1)+”, “show version | include ([0-9]*)(_\1)+”, etc). He types it in, the router crashes and all is good. This also reminded me that I need to update the initial configurations on Brian McGahan’s development rack (see below) ... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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Posted in CCIE Humor on Sep 26th, 2008
Number 10 – Five words – “Shot of tequila, beer back.”... [Read the rest of this entry -->]
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