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Well I haven’t had much of a chance to blog this but I had the opportunity to speak with Yusuf at Cisco Live in Orlando last week.  We spoke about the fact that rumor has it that the CCIE Security will change soon.  Here is what I was told.

• Yes it is revising but the official announcement will not be until a few weeks into July.
• The new blueprint, 3.0, will include the obvious 8.x asa with the PIX being removed, the 6.x IPS code and 12.4 IOS.
• I also hear that there are spots in the topology available so you may see a MARS and/or a NAC appliance.
• You will have about 6 months from release to take you lab under the old blueprint but you will probably have a really HARD time getting a seat.
• Also, you have to wait 30 days after you fail to take it again. If you do get a seat in say November and have to wait till mid December you probably wont get a seat and will be forced to take the new blueprint.

I’m curious to see the turnaround at internetworkexpert in updating their gear, workbooks, and classes. While I have a lab seat on August 15th and dont really want to start over again I’m looking forward to the changes.

So I read about Cisco spamming about their learning portal on another blog and then I log into mine and BLAHM- Cisco got me do.  What really gets me is that I advertise for you already Cisco.  Thats what my whole blog is about.  Then you go and pay someone to post spam comments on my blog.  Shame on you Cisco and Shame on you Internet Press Release.  Removed!

BTW, if you had waited I would have posted about it on my own. 

Bad Show.

So if you were planning on getting your CCNA and then going right into the CCNP, CCSP, of CCVP think again!  Cisco just made changes to the certification path.  Here is what you need to know.

1. The CCNA is now a requirement to get the CCNA Wireless, CCNA Voice, and CCNA Security.
2. The CCNA Security is now required for the CCSP
3. The CCNA Voice is now required for the CCVP
4. The CCNA Wireles doesnt have a CCWP at this time but there is a nice open spot for one to show up.
5. The CCNA is still the only requirement for the CCNP

I'm almost finished writing the CCNA Wireless book that I have been working on this year.  Cisco Press should announce Rough Cut access to it via http://safari.ciscopress.com soon.  Print versions are soon to follow. 

Until then you can hop on over to Ascolta and check out the information there on the new CCNA Concentrations.

On a final note be sure to take a picture of the most screwed up data center rack you've and enter the "Gotta Loves Spaghetti" contest to win a $50 amazon gift card!

Well Day 2 of my trip is over and the official Day 1 of Cisco Live is underway. Here are some recaps:

The kickoff session was at 4pm. They had a table of glow sticks at the entrance. My intial question was..What are the glow sticks for?

Turns out they have do do with the Cisco Live theme. Notice the light streams in the opening pic of this post.

Once things got kicked off they opened the World of Solutions. The group of folks waiting to get in was insane.

Yep, 11,000 people at once is a really good idea! Actually it wasn’t bad. Once in It was a little push and shove to get the free t-shirt:

I opted to wait until tomorrow. Instead I swung by the Ascolta Booth and ran into Fred Cutaran, VP of Sales and my good friend Eric Kelch hard at work.

After that the free beer was flowing, food was out and there was a buzz about the room. I had an opportunity to meet up with Wendell Odom, Scott Morris, and Leah Lynch. Many more were there but I only had two hours and spent a bit in the Certification Lounge. I can’t wait for the Tech Sessions tomorrow and another full day.

So here I am at the EconoLodge in Orlando which used to be the Best Western. I have to say that the internet connectivity here is the worst I have EVER experienced.

NEWS FLASH: Id rather pay 10 bucks a night for good internet access versus getting Crappy access for free!!!!

Well, If this post makes it I’ll be amazed. I have much writing to do tonight and Ill get my day 2 Cisco Live Recap up soon!

I remember growing up with my cousin Ryan. He was a very picky eater, whose menu consisted of hot-dogs, mac-&-cheese, and of course, spaghetti. It's become obvious to me that spaghetti is one of those foods that everybody likes. We'll you are in for a real treat. Here is a five course meal prepared just fo you that starts with Spaghetti, then moves on to Spaghetti, then more spaghetti, and well….you get the picture.

Here is the setup:

I have been hooked on failblog as of late and in the spirit of failblog I came across a data center that was, well, failing at being a data center. Here are just a few of the PICS I took. I'm curious to see if any if you can top it.

We begin with what appears to be a normal rack. These are some older Cisco 3000 Series VPN concentrators along with a few ASA 5520s loaded with the AIP-SSM modules.

Next we have a rack of 2600's and some PIX 515s. Still doing pretty good right.

Then the cable contractor took the day, neigh- the week off.

Here it starts getting good:

How about this?

and of course there is this:

And finally this:

And this is all in one room! Think you can top this mess? Lets see you try.

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Now get to cooking!

Well day one is over and here are my first impressions.

1. The Convention Center is too big. They made me park in the back and walk about half a mile just to get registered.
2. They are going “Green” so no handouts for tech sessions. Instead you get a cool 2GB- USB drive that comes with all the session PDFs on it.
3. 
4. You get a nice backpack that comes with a refillable Water Bottle. Its filled with advertisements and some games to get you to some of the vendor booths. Looks like a few vendors are giving away the IPOD Touch and I saw one giving away an X-BOX 360 with Guitar Hero III.
5. 

So all-in-all, day one wasn’t anything exciting. They had the Labtorials and Techtorials today. I didn’t take any although I wanted to take the CCIE Security Techtorial. I’m not Paying 795 bucks for it though.
Tomorrow Ill be snapping off a few pics and I’ll give some highlights of the vendors that are here when the world of solutions opens up.

A valuable member of the CCIE blogosphere is back tonight.  Many of you are aware of the uproar created by a certain Article on Network World.  It sent the online community into an uproar and all of a sudden Ethan was MIA.  Well, his blog was anyhow.

Just a quick apology to those of you that receive email updates from this blog.  I used a new offline blogging software for my post on CLI Shortcuts.  The preview sent in the email was pretty much junk.  Sorry about that.  I'll do my best to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Often I will help one of my students and while doing so I use commands that are not covered in class, mostly because they are either a shortcut or because I am looking for something very specific. Here is a short list of some of my favorites:

show run interface:

blog_demo#sh run int f0/0

Building configuration…

Current configuration : 93 bytes

!

interface FastEthernet0/0

ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

duplex auto

speed auto

end

show run | section:

blog_demo#sh run | section interface

interface FastEthernet0/0

ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

duplex auto

speed auto

interface FastEthernet1/0

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

duplex auto

speed auto

blog_demo#

show run | begin :

blog_demo#sh run | begin interface

interface FastEthernet0/0

ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

duplex auto

speed auto

!

interface FastEthernet1/0

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

duplex auto

speed auto

!

ip http server

no ip http secure-server

ip classless

!

control-plane

!

!

–More–

show run | include:

blog_demo#sh run interface f0/0 | include ip

ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0

show ip interface brief:

blog_demo#sh ip interface brief

Interface IP-Address OK? Method Status Protocol

FastEthernet0/0 10.1.1.1 YES manual up up

FastEthernet1/0 192.168.1.1 YES manual up up

blog_demo#

Also while doing a show run you can use the / character to find something specific:

blog_demo#sh run

Building configuration…

Current configuration : 663 bytes

!

version 12.3

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec

no service password-encryption

!

hostname blog_demo

!

boot-start-marker

boot-end-marker

!

!

memory-size iomem 5

no aaa new-model

ip subnet-zero

!

!

!

!

ip cef

ip ips po max-events 100

/192.168

filtering…

ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0

duplex auto

speed auto

!

ip http server

Enjoy, and If you find this helpful please leave a comment and let me know!