10 Years Groupstudy.com
This august groupstudy.com will have its tenth anniversary and Paul Borghese has announced a companion site to groupstudy.com called ccie.net.
I think that the groupstudy mailing lists are one of the best sources for the CCIE preparations and Im looking forward on where the new site is evolving to.
Just below the announcement itself:
GroupStudy.com is 10 years old this August. In celebration you will be
seeing some major enhancements and upgrades to GroupStudy.com.
Military Service
Again close to two weeks no update, but this time its due to my annual military service which is lasting until the end of this week. Even though I got time in the evenings Im too tired to focus on complexer stuff than watching TV 
Im looking forward to tomorrow when my service ends for this year and I can start writing acticles again. The stuff Im planing to do is quite similar to my last forecast:
- Lock and Key Security
- BGP Path Attributes
- IPSec Overview
- Virtual Tunnel Interfaces
- Testing Connectivity with TCL script and macros
- OSPF LSA types and areas
VTP “Specials”
VTP is a nice tool if you have a larger network with a lot of VLANs and modifications, but it also has its dark sides. Im going to show three different scenarios and how VTP behaves in those, the first two might not be a big suprise, neither the third (cause its written in a warning inside the config guide) but maybe it shows why and how VTP is going to behave in those situations. Im going to start with some copy&paste action (why should I write something by myself if there is already a well written text? 
) from the Cisco Config Guide about VTP and its three modes.
About
Im a network engineer working for an international medical company based in Basel, Switzerland. I began my professional life in 2000 after 4 years of an IT apprenticeship. I started as the Network Management System responsible with quite a lot other of other tasks inside the Cisco networking field. In 2005 I changed to my current employer where I changed my field of knowledge from part NMS part Networking to full time Networking. I also started to educate myself deeper into networking. After passing the CCNA and CCNP exams I wanted to go further with my education and took the CCIE R&S track instead of doing a school with lots of stuff Im not interested in 
I started the CCIE journey in August 2007 with the first of 5 workshops at the Cisco Network Academy in Rapperswil and passed the CCIE in Brussels at 07th of May 2008.
During that time I wrote a lot of documents to keep the stuff I learned and I thought it might be an idea to make it public so it might help other people on their path through the Cisco Certifications. I hope this site gets useful not only for CCIE candidates but also for other networking professionals on their search for knowledge.
If you have any questions or want to contact me, please drop me a line to pashtuk at gmail.com
