Narbik’s Bootcamp - Day 2

I was not able to finish all the Frame-relay labs last night so I am already behind. I think I will dedicate my Saturday & Sunday for all the leftovers. Today we covered OSPF and EIGRP with 40% lecture and 60% hands-on labs. Narbik started off with OSPF lecture and covered every single thing about OSPF you ever wanted to know. As always the starting point was that OSPF is a linkstate protocol and I thought to myself “Damn I already know that, is that why I am here?” but by the time he was done - I was like WOW! I didn’t know all this about OSPF. So we had the lecture from 9am - 3pm with a lunch break in between. At 3pm we started cranking the OSPF labs until 7pm. I was not able to finish all the labs so got some more leftovers for the weekend. I have tons of notes from the lecture that I will try to post here later on.

At 7pm we started EIGRP lecture and ended around 10pm. As expected he covered every aspect of EIGRP but he still expects us to get on the labs and ask questions if we don’t understand something. His recommendation is that we are not trying to be a typist Even monkeys can type commands. He expects us to understand every command and know when to use what.  His goal is to make all of us better Networking folks than his Grand Mother