Well its been 5 months since I passed my R&S switch lab and things have been a bit hectic, I’ve changed jobs, moved back to my home state, Got engaged, Planning a Wedding and started to study for SP.
My SP studies took a big hit when I moved/changed jobs. My new job allows far less study time than my previous one unfortunately but I plan to dedicate atleast one night a week to labbing/workbooks. I will be continuing to create my own labs so stay tuned, The pace will be …

This post is all about detailing the time from my first attempt up until today. Disclaimer: I have done very little editing so it is me rambling.
On 15-Dec-08 I failed my first attempt at R&S, I was devastated that night and for half of the following day, The hardest part about the entire experience for me was showing up at work the next day and  answering all those questions with ” I failed”.   I’m not entirely sure if I was just unlucky or lazy, But If I had to …

This post is about a month late, Been busy with some other tasks. And it probably reads like I wrote it without thought, and thats because I did.
I had the luck to purchase a two for one deal from IpExpert, this deal was for  IpExperts bootcamp and Narbik’s bootcamp.  Its been about two months since the IpExpert class and one month since Narbik’s.
Day 1 was a bit interesting, There was a very late change in the course venue and I was not aware of this, Thankfully the original venue pointed …

Welcome to Part 2 of the dynamips,terminal servers and virtual rack tutorial. This time we are configuring 4 virtual racks. Each rack consists of 9 routers, 4 switch and a fully meshed frame relay cloud.
The virtual racks are controlled with dynagen and each user has their own automatically created .net file and seperate working directory so they can save their work. If a user access a different rack. The control script with rewrite their .net file with values for the new rack. So the user doesn’t any difference except for the terminal server address changing. Curious? read on for the howto.

Welcome to Part 1 of another dynagen,dynamips tutorial. This time we are focusing on having Dynagen and dynamips start automatically on boot. I had a need for four terminal servers to start on boot. So I have included my .net, config files for the routers, init scripts and init config file. Read on to learn how to do this yourself.