CCIE — My EtherealMind

Low Level Design – Think About the Next Step

18th March 2011 By John McManus Leave a Comment

A while back Greg wrote a great article about the “Rules of Design Documentation”†http://etherealmind.com/rules-design-documentation-etherealmind/these are really valuable rules when it comes to writing a design document and in my opinion is particularly relevant to a Low Level Design AKA Detailed Design Document. Ask yourself Before you can apply these rules of design you must [...]

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Show 23 – We Love the Love and Love Your Questions

17th October 2010 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Packet Pushers, who love the love, take all your questions and attempt to provide answers. Well, at least we talk about them. Or something.

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Internets of Interest:16 Aug 10

16th August 2010 By bookmarks Leave a Comment

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 16 Aug 10:

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Packet Pushers – Show 9 – Bogon Poetry

29th June 2010 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

Ethan and Dan form up the podcast this week with JT as guest and discuss varous topics.

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Teach a Man to Fish – On Learning to Learn and Certification

7th June 2010 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Musing on “learning something” as opposed to “learning to learn something”. I believe this is a vital part of understanding certification.

Filed Under: Blog, Musing Tagged With: CCIE, certfication, Cisco, study, worklife

Techtorial: BGP Redistribution With OSPF and Statics

3rd June 2010 By Joe Astorino 1 Comment

Joe Astorino says : Today I would like to share with you all a few obscure specific details related to both BGP and redistribution. Having things like this down will be important to your success in the lab. I know that some of the details I will be discussing were surprises to me when I first learned them, so hopefully it will help you guys out!

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Packet Pushers Podcast – Show 4 – The Interview Process

23rd May 2010 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

This week Dan, Ethan and Greg cover some news and then put Marko Milivojevic through a “job interview” to deep dive the Interview Process.

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How Long Does It Take to Become a CCIE From 0?

20th May 2010 By John McManus 23 Comments

I donít have the answer but in this not so brief post I can show you how long it took me and tell you a little about my journey.

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Musing: On Permananent and Ephemeral Knowledge and Exam Study

13th May 2010 By Greg Ferro 5 Comments

Like many tech-workers, we need to ingest vast quantities of knowledge to get started in our jobs. Without that knowledge, there is no working in our business. What is unique, however, is that we continue to ingest knowledge for the remainder of our careers – often consuming large portions of our personal time and energy. Worse we even get tested on it by sitting formal examinations.

How can we manage this process to be more effective ?

Filed Under: Featured, Musing Tagged With: CCIE, Cisco, study, worklife

Packet Pushers – Show 2 – Attack of the PacketPushers

9th May 2010 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

This is the second podcast by the PacketPushers crew. We’re slightly more prepared this week, and had more of an idea what to expect. Hopefully that’ll be evident in the podcast!

Filed Under: Blog, Featured Tagged With: CCIE, f5, ipv6