And one week later...

If anyone is paying attention to this thing, you may think I've fallen off the planet. Quite the opposite. While I have had some moments over the past week and a half to study, I did not have anytime to blog the details. In short, I made two trips to D.C., took my son to the hospital for an MRI (all is well ), took him to the doctors office twice and my wife once. All of that on top of my normal everyday life kept me quite busy.

I've been working on Narbik's Soup-To-Nuts workbook. The workbook is great at getting you intimately familiar with the basics. It does not really cover the advanced or really weird topics, but hey - that's what the bootcamp is for, right? Anyway, here are my notes thus far.

• ip hello-interval eigrp 100 30 - this is the interface level command for setting eigrp hello intervals
• ip hold-time eigrp 100 120 - interface level command for hold time
• metric weight 0 1 0 0 0 0 - sets the k1 EIGRP metric values to use only BW. (sidebar: should I memorize eigrp K values?)
• A leak map will advertise component subnets in addition to summary address. If route-map referenced is undefined, only summary is advertised. If access-list is undefined, summary and all components are advertised. If both are defined, only specified subnets within ACL are advertised w/ summary.
• By default, EIGRP uses up to 50% of interface bandwidth.
  
• ignore lsa mospf - disables syslog messages concerning type 6 LSAs not supported by Cisco
• ip ospf name-lookup - global command to enable ospf domain lookup
• max-lsa [x] - maximum number of non self-generated LSAs that the routing process can receive
• ip ospf message-digest-key 1 md5 [password] sets the OSPF md5 password. (not ip ospf authentication-key .....this sets plain text key)
• no discard-route [internal|external] - disables null routes on summarizing router
• stub routers cannot use Virtual Link but can use Tunnels
• no ASBRs with stub routers
• no type 5 externals w/i stub.
  
• area xx default-cost yy - sets the default route-cost in OSPF
• you only need "...stub no-summary" on the ABR
• Totally stubby filters IA routes
• You can filter LSAs using "neighr [x] database-filter all out". Must be point-to-multipoint network.
  
• distribute-list out only words on ASBR.
  
• Summary address can be used to not-advertise". Cannot be used to filter internal.
• area x range y not-advertise to filter internal routes.
  
• max-metric router-lsa is done so other routes do not prefer configured router.
• Tunnels are almost always an option to a seemingly crazy request!!!

Well, that's all for now. I've got more notes on switching and RIP that I'm just too lazy to type up right now. More studying tomorrow and next week using the Soup-to-nuts workbook. Then it's off to bootcamp March 7th!