not much for me going on this weekend, watch NFL playoffs, supposed to be very cold (mid 20'sF) and maybe some rain/snow/sleet/freezing rain on Sunday, may get my hair cut, but that's about it for me. see ya all next week.....
I need to track down an electrical problem in my house. My living room lost power to it. All switches and power outlets do not work. I already replaced the circuit breaker which was a no-go. Now I need to open all the outlets to look for anything that might be breaking the circuit. Sucks!
going to be hanging out with the girlie :wub:
watch NFL, and enjoy the weekend.
My back is killing me... so I should be resting up in bed, watching the NFL Playoffs.
I'm rooting for all the teams that aren't supposed to win: Dallas, because I think they will win, and the others because, in order for them to win, it'll have to be one helluva game. Good gosh, if Carolina wins, won't that be a Cinderella story!
I'm rooting for Dallas to lose because they already got a game handed to them.
Working on a migration right now and then taking it easy until Tuesday
I've got an exam in the morning. Following that, I will either a) drink heavily to drown my sorrows or b) drink heavily to celebrate. That should pretty much put a wrap on Saturday. Sunday, I have no plans except a hockey game in the PM.
Last night.. booze, nachos and anime.
Today hangover then a 30th and Sunday a 50something at a pub.
All weekend: Work on server migration for a client as I have free time.
Saturday: Watch my daughter compete in gymnastics (boy has this been an eye opener lol).
Sunday: Watch football, eat hot wings, and drink way more beer then I should. :)
OMG, the weekend thread! I haven't seen this in ages!
Friday: Continue eating pizza, wings, and Pepsi
Saturday: Move
Sunday: Firewall migration, router replacement, and maybe finish unpacking if I don't finish on Sat
Ploughing through JNCIS-SP reading. The first 2 PDFs were a snooze fest (in particular the first one... OK lets read all the RIP/OSPF/BGP crap again, except in Juniper-speak this time).
Then you hit the 3rd PDF which is 458 pages long and goes into MPLS in far greater detail than the CCIE R&S syllabus!!!! eek!!!!
Going to a 1-year-old birthday party tomorrow. The wife has completely subsumed out existence to her mother's group. Every weekend is a frenzy of baby related activity. To rub it in, the father of the kid is a tennis freak (like me) and has a tennis court in his backyard, but guess what, our wives have banned us from having a hit, as its more important that we help out cleaning!!! WTF
Saturday: soccer and socialization hopefully a few beers
Sunday: migrate backbone between two cities to 10G and start moving towards new VRF design.
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Quote from: wintermute000 on January 09, 2015, 11:13:53 PM
Then you hit the 3rd PDF which is 458 pages long and goes into MPLS in far greater detail than the CCIE R&S syllabus!!!! eek!!!!
Haven't hit the 3rd looking forward to it. :D
I just finished off some documentation... man, I know how to party!
Quote from: Network2501 on January 10, 2015, 08:03:38 AM
Quote from: wintermute000 on January 09, 2015, 11:13:53 PM
Then you hit the 3rd PDF which is 458 pages long and goes into MPLS in far greater detail than the CCIE R&S syllabus!!!! eek!!!!
Haven't hit the 3rd looking forward to it. :D
Its good stuff but it gets pretty down in the weeds without tying it together. I've been reading a combination of Google, Darren's blog (mellowd) and subnetzero (another dual CCIE/JNCIE blog) and hopping back and forth a lot. Only got through half of it in one day which is 50% my usual intake speed lol. The main issue is that it gets so into the detail and as usual I start thinking about big picture/design and how it all hangs together and realise I don't get the context/where it slots in.
I only have limited MPLS/MP-BGP/MPLS-VPN XP so the finer points are all new to me. Happy to discuss the material in a separate thread, there is a LOT to mull over.The main pain points for me are
- RSVP - Cisco don't do this at all in R&S track aside from a tiny bit about manually RSVP tunnelling of LDP. By larger implication, RSVP/LDP mixed topologies. Also there is a TON of nitty gritty with various traffic engineering knobs to fiddle with
- Junos weird tables and strange options for tweaking what routes get imported/exported where (not MPLSVPN RD/RT import, different topic) - what is this weird inet3 table and l3bgp table what WTF do you mean use this command to export all inet3 routes to inet0 and why the ---- would you do that?!??!!
- They talk re: RD but they don't use RT, they have a choice of vrf-target or vrf-import/export, which doesn't align with Cisco MP-BGP and RD/RT.
On the bright side reading around the traps the 3rd PDF goes into waaay more detail/depth than is required for the JNCIS, in fact the MPLS material (training course JMV) is the same for JNCIS and JNCIP-SP. I looked at the course notes and it seems pretty much same as this PDF.... not sure how that works but great. Put it this way, I did the test exam on Juniper learning portal before even starting the 3rd PDF and I passed using my exising Cisco (basic) MPLS/MPLS-VPN knowledge. lol
i.e. i doubt you'll be examined on the intricacies of a mixed LDP PE-Core / RSVP Core / LDP Core-PE topology and what happens when a RSVP tunnel starts doing funny things , like this example http://blog.hoff.geek.nz/2013/11/08/ldp-over-rsvp/ (http://blog.hoff.geek.nz/2013/11/08/ldp-over-rsvp/)
But oh yeah so going to lab all of it :partay:
So far my weekend has been spent building a new ferret cage and developing a solution to connect the two together seamlessly. Six puppies running around the house, unable to get their fulfillment of exercise due to the cold rain here in Texas; kind of crazy at times.
I'm clearing out our spare bedroom today to setup my CCIE lab in there, I have a full rack loaded with L2 and L3 equipment from a barrage of manufactures, handful of Raspberry Pi boxes, NAS appliance and a vmware whitebox running CSRs, AD servers, Kali, and the such. Going to setup a point-to-point wireless network to extend my L2 domain from my firewall to that room, which should be fun :D
Ravens-Pats game did not disappoint.
Left the Seahawks-Panthers game after Seattle got that pick-6 to make it 31-10. Carolina put up a good fight, but made too many errors to last a full 60 minutes against Seattle at home.
Looking forward to the Cowboys-Packers game today. Will the cheeseheads be supreme, or did the Pokes bring their graters?
THREE-DAY WEEKEND IN THE USA!
I'mma make some videos. I think I'll make one on tracer-t!
not much for me, got to run to Costco, stock up on supplies, they are running low
been wanting to check out this place http://madhorsebrewery.com/index.html for a while.. local brewpub.
Watch NFL Football on Sunday.
Monday off.
1.) Play 18 with an old buddy (carts!!!!! WOOHOO)
2.) Finish labbing VRF route-leaking, RSVP explicit ERO, RSVP-TE with classes and any L2 SP features the vSRXs can handle (not a lot is my understanding.... no VPLS for me!)
3.) Finish reading all the JNCIS-SP PDFs and start on practice exams/re-reading weak points (metro ethernet OAM, ugh)
4.) Steel up for my final week in my god-forsaken current position. FINALLY FINISHED WOOHOO :excited: [size=78%] [/size]
attending Texas Hawking Association's annual field meetup outside Fort Hood. Here's some friends I've made so far:
Gyr-Peregrine falcon hybrid
(http://i.imgur.com/RX5NM6O.jpg)
Male Peregrine falcon
(http://i.imgur.com/x8m7p9t.jpg)
Female Peregrine falcon
(http://i.imgur.com/CgGHM8H.jpg)
Many other raptors out here: Harris hawks, red tail hawks, red shoulder hawks, and even a golden eagle!
Great shots, Settit. Putting your SLR to real good use.
:professorcat:
Worked from home from 8am-12pm on some SharePoint bullshit. Went to the data center and racked our new Seagate PnP Evault 50TB cloud storage backup appliance from 2pm-5pm.. Took the Family to dinner and a movie this evening. Seahawaks Tomorrow!! :excited:
Cthulhu Wars arrived yesterday. Weekend plans just took on a more Lovecraftian aspect... :not_worthy:
supposed to be a wet sloppy rain/ice/sleet/snow event tonite and tomorrow then again sunday night into monday.
hunkering down at home, for most of the weekend. got to get new shoes on the car though Sat AM. should be a fun ride in the ice and snow on badly worn tires.
I have a couple INE rack rentals planned for this weekend, finishing up their CCIE R&S workbook's coverage of Layer2, may rent a DC rack to play with OTV.
Sunday is dedicated cooking day, but my girlfriend is taking me on hawking in west Houston. Never seen a rabbit taken out before, but I'm sure the hawks will do just fine. No Ted Nugent style photo ops, promise.
Makin' vids for networking-forums.com
On-call this weekend so not much. I need to sit down and do some reading on QoS, though. I either don't understand what I'm seeing happen or I've got a bug on an ASR-1006.
Celebrating my daughters 6th Birthday! Also enjoying the snow, its coming down pretty good right now.
(http://i.imgur.com/PGB2OeG.jpg)
We took in a red-tailed hawk last night, his name is Fred and he's partially blind.
beautiful bird
Well using Seittit's post in the Guides section I ran up a dedicated linux GNS3 server and loaded it with IOU. Amazed at how much faster everything runs in Linux.
I also bit the bullet on VIRL so I now have more labbing options than I know what to do with - CSR100Vs on ESXi, IOU on GNS3, IOU on VIRL, any combination breakout to my real rack....
And to think I'm still banging my head on the INE v4 multicast lab in the old GNS3..... God I hate multicast so much.
In meatspace, played 9 rounds and hosting a BBQ tomorrow for 'Straya day. Unfortunately its not my beer buddies but rather our mother's group, which means the house will be over-run by babies. To avoid accidentally stepping on anything I will just park myself next to the grill with a supply of meat and beer so there's worse things to be doing I suppose! LOL
EPIC WEEKEND THREAD GRAVEDIG
I plan to ban anyone else doing epic gravedigs this weekend. :D Nice to see there's a warning if it's been more than 120 days since the last post.
Anyway, I get to move some boxes into a storage room so that my wife can proceed along with her remodeling project.
So no bans for adding to this right? You already dug it up.
Wife's birthday is Sunday. We are going out with friends tomorrow for dinner, and got tickets for Jeff Dunham. Sunday my wife wants to go train BJJ in the morning, I will take her somewhere nice for lunch. Then she will probably play Destiny all afternoon. She took Monday off as well, but I have a project finishing on Monday so I have to work. If the other side will get their shit together I can have this wrapped up in a couple hours, and head home.
-Otanx
hey, that exercise and loosing weight thread was only about a month old, no epic grave dig there. It was on page 2.... :)
Nightshift :(
12 hour nights in the NOC for me!
Wrote a fun story called "The Truth About Dragons." It's set in an alternate universe in which old British towns could have "shire" in their names. Also, dragons.
http://zzzptm.com/wordpress/?p=1894
Was working on moving to new house this past weekend. Hoping to be done moving this Wednesday so I can focus on cleaning the old house to get it sold.
Question: if I work from home all this week, does my weekend start whenever I finish replying to an email and there's no new email awaiting my reply?