Moving Right Along
Posted by Aragoen Celtdra on September 22nd, 2008
I finished my first pass on redistribution topics last week. In an effort to keep the momentum going, I started on BGP today and will continue with the getting-to-know-you readings on BGP into the weekend. Because of this new strategy, I will not be taking notes until my second pass. There’s just too much materials to go through on this topic if I have to stop and take detailed notes on each major sections. This time my goal is to finish up reading BGP, followed by multicast, then IPv6 in the next 4 weeks. After that, I’ll go back and do the second pass with more intensive readings and detailed notes.
I lost too much study time in the last month and a half working on our network at my workplace. While the experience I gained is very valuable, I also can’t lose focus on my goal to get the CCNP out of the way (I’m shooting for no later than summer of 2010). Now that most of the major changes and network configurations are done, I sort of retracted back to my usual mop up duties (changing printer toners, maintaining RF scanners, software installs here and there, etc). I’m using some free time I have to ramp up my readings. At the same time, I’m also trying to keep abreast of different techniques of maintaining and monitoring my network. Yeah, it feels nice to say “my network” 
as I’ve almost fully taken ownership of all our five offices and their network connectivities.
Here’s this week’s scheduled readings:
Mon, September 22: Read pp. 469-480 - BGP Concepts, Autonomous System, Multihoming
Tue, September 23: Read pp. 481-492 - Path Vecctor characterisics, IBGP, EBGP
Wed, September 24: Read pp. 492-505 - Synchronization, tables, message types, as-path, next-hop
Thu, September 25: Read pp. 505-516 - Origin attr, local pref attr, community attr, MED, weight, configure.
Fri, September 26: Read pp. 516-529 - Configure: multi-hop, next-hop, authentication, synchronization
Sat, September 27: Read pp. 529-541 - Configuration examples, verify and troubleshoot
Sun, September 28: Read pp. 541-556 - Path manipulation using route maps