Nov 30, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 114 flash card reviews
Added 10 new cards about EIGRP

Notes of the day

Watched/Study - INE EIGRP Classic Authentication, EIGRP Automatic Key Rotation, EIGRP Named Mode Authentication

Read more parts of:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7868

Lab cards completed
Floating Static Routes
Local Policy Routing
GRE Tunneling
Protected Ports

Labs cards added/completed
EIGRP Key Chain Rotation
EIGRP Network Statement
EIGRP Auto-Summary
EIGRP Multi-AF Mode
EIGRP MD5 & SHA-256 Authentication

Pet Willow 14 + 6 + 3 = 23 minutes (such a lover today)
Pet Lilly - she didn't come to me *once* today, maybe she was jealous of Willow :(

Nov 29, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 137 flash card reviews
Added 10 new cards about EIGRP

Notes of the day
Really getting into EIGRP.  Maybe tomorrow I will start adding some labs since the lab load felt pretty light today.

Watched/Study - 
This was great:
https://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en_us/training-events/le31/le46/cln/promo/share_the_wealth_contest/finalists/Yap_Chin_Hoong_bsci05_-_EIGRP.pdf
Read parts of:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7868 (prolly refer to that one a lot over the next week...)

Lab cards completed
GRE Tunneling and Recursive Routing
RIPv2 Auto-Summary
GRE Reliable Backup Interface
RIPv2 Filtering with Standard Access-Lists
GRE Backup Interface

Labs cards added
none

Pet Willow 2 minutes
Pet Lilly 6 + 5 = 11 minutes

Nov 28, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 179 flash card reviews
Added 10 new cards about EIGRP

Notes of the day
Thought about adding some EIGRP lab cards but I'm going to take EIGRP slow and focus on the knowledge for a little bit.  I am going to take my time with EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, and DMVPN since they are critical technologies.

Watched/Study - INE EIGRP Classic Metric Calculation, EIGRP Wide Metrics, EIGRP Traffic Engineering & Unequal Cost Load Balancing

Lab cards completed
STP BPDU Filter
RIPv2 Manual Summarization
RIPv2 Default Routing
RIPv2 Filtering with Prefix-Lists
RIPv2 Filtering with Administrative Distance
RIPv2 Reliable Conditional Default Routing

Labs cards added
none

Pet Willow 7 minutes
Pet Lilly 5 minutes

Nov 27, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 152 flash card reviews
Added 22 new cards about EIGRP

Watched/Study - Just went back through some of my notes and did some Googling about the flash cards that were giving me trouble

Lab cards completed
RIPv2 Filtering with Offset Lists
RIPv2 Basic Configuration
RIPv2 Filtering with Per-Neighbor AD
RIPv2 Unicast Updates
RIPv2 Convergence Timers
RIPv2 Authentication
RIPv2 Conditional Default Routing
RIPv2 Broadcast Updates
RIPv2 Offset List
Reliable Policy Routing
RIPv2 Filtering with Extended Access-Lists
RIPv2 Source Validation

Labs cards added
none

Pet Willow 6 + 2 = 8 minutes
Pet Lilly 5 minutes

Nov 26, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 202 flash card reviews
Added 0 new cards

Helped my buddy move over the weekend, resting a bit... just did my flash cards

Watched/Study - nothing

Lab cards completed
none

Labs cards added
none

Nov 23, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 148 flash card reviews
Added 20 new cards about EIGRP

Watched/Study - 1st 2 INE EIGRP videos

Lab cards completed
 Policy Routing
 VTP Prune-Eligible List
 STP BackboneFast
 RIPv2 Filtering with Offset Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Prefix-Lists
 RIPv2 Reliable Conditional Default Routing
 RIPv2 Split Horizon
 RIPv2 Send and Receive Versions
 RIPv2 Filtering with Extended Access-Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Extended Access-Lists
 MST Path Selection with Port Priority
 RIPv2 Filtering with Passive Interface
 RIPv2 Default Routing
 Private VLANs
 STP Loop Guard
 MAC-Address Table Static Entries and Aging
 RIPv2 Convergence Timers


Labs cards added
none

Pet Willow 2 + 2 + 1 = 5 minutes
Pet Lilly 2 + 2 + 2 + 5 + 1 + 1 = 13 minutes

Nov 22, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 140 flash card reviews
Added 10 new cards about EIGRP

No labs or extra studying.  Short day today - Thanksgiving!

Nov 21, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 196 flash card reviews
Added 32 new cards about RIP and RIPng

Watched/Study - Read Chapter 6 (RIP) and Chapter 7 (RIPv2, RIPng) in Routing TCP/IP Vol 1 and made some new flash cards for info I hadn't covered.

Lab cards completed
 RIPv2 Default Routing
 RIPv2 Unicast Updates
 RIPv2 Source Validation
 RIPv2 Filtering with Administrative Distance
 RIPv2 Reliable Conditional Default Routing
 RIPv2 Broadcast Updates
 ODR - On-Demand Routing
 GRE Backup Interface
 RIPv2 Filtering with Per-Neighbor AD
 RIPv2 Filtering with Standard Access-Lists
 RIPv2 Offset List
 STP PortFast Default
 RIPv2 Manual Summarization
 RIPv2 Auto-Summary
 RIPv2 Conditional Default Routing
 GRE Reliable Backup Interface
 RIPv2 Authentication

Labs cards added
none

Pet Willow 11 + 2 = 13 minutes
Pet Lilly 1 + 2 = 3 minutes

Nov 20, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 208 flash card reviews
Added 30 new cards about RIP and RIPng

Got caught up a little on some old IPv6 cards.
And some of the finer points of RIP timers.

Watched/Study - Nothing in particular, just checking forums and Cisco docs to help figure out things from the labs/cards I missed.

Lab cards completed
 RIPv2 Filtering with Extended Access-Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Offset Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Administrative Distance
 RIPv2 Filtering with Per-Neighbor AD
 RIPv2 Default Routing (this one messed me up lol)
 RIPv2 Convergence Timers
 RIPv2 Basic Configuration
 GRE Tunneling and Recursive Routing
 GRE Tunneling
 RIPv2 Conditional Default Routing
 RIPv2 Reliable Conditional Default Routing
 RIPv2 Unicast Updates
 RIPv2 Broadcast Updates
 RIPv2 Source Validation

Labs cards added
none

Pet Willow 5 + 2 = 7 minutes
Pet Lilly 3 + 3 = 6 minutes

Nov 19, 2018

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 190 flash card reviews
Added 20 new cards about RIP

Review took a bit longer today, I hit some snags on Multicast again and had to lab some stuff up but I got it sorted out (hopefully I remember this time!).

Watched INE Written + ATC RIP Videos,  made a few cards

Pet Lilly for 2 + 2 + 2 + 5 = 11 minutes

Lab cards completed
 RIPv2 Convergence Timers
 RIPv2 Send and Receive Versions
 Local Policy Routing
 Routing to Multipoint Broadcast Interfaces
 MAC-Address Table Static Entries and Aging
 SPAN
 RIPv2 Filtering with Prefix-Lists
 Longest Match Routing
 Routing to Multipoint Broadcast Interfaces
 RIPv2 Filtering with Extended Access-Lists

Labs cards added
 RIPv2 Filtering with Offset Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Administrative Distance
 RIPv2 Filtering with Per-Neighbor AD
 RIPv2 Default Routing
 RIPv2 Conditional Default Routing
 RIPv2 Reliable Conditional Default Routing
 RIPv2 Unicast Updates
 RIPv2 Broadcast Updates
 RIPv2 Source Validation

Nov 18 Update

##Monthly Update November 18

Completed Monthly Knowledge Assessment - Click to see the spreadsheet

This month I did my flash cards every day! Hopefully I can keep it  up :)

## Daily Update Nov 18

Flash Card Knowledge Review
Completed 172 flash card reviews
Added 20 new cards about RIP

Networklessons.com RIP sections
Watched INE ATC videos on RIP (1.5x speed with a few rewinds)

Lab cards completed
 RIPv2 Basic Configuration
 ODR - On-Demand Routing
 GRE Tunneling and Recursive Routing
 GRE Reliable Backup Interface
 GRE Backup Interface
 Custom Multicast-IGMP-Proxy lab I made based on Networklessons.com scenario
 Storm Control
 RSPAN
 Reliable Static Routing with Enhanced Object Tracking
 MAC-Address Table Static Entries and Aging

Labs cards added/Completed
 RIPv2 Authentication
 RIPv2 Split Horizon
 RIPv2 Auto-Summary
 RIPv2 Send and Receive Versions
 RIPv2 Convergence Timers
 RIPv2 Offset List
 RIPv2 Filtering with Passive Interface
 RIPv2 Filtering with Prefix-Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Standard Access-Lists
 RIPv2 Filtering with Extended Access-Lists

Today I really dug into RIP after getting my flash cards done.  It won't be typical for me to add this many lab cards each day, but I want to try to get RIP out of the way pretty quick.  It is a pretty simple protocol and I don't think the lab will have anything too intense RIP-wise.

Maybe Some Public Pressure Will Help

First blog post in ever!
I have been at this since August but I figured I would start a blog to track my progress and hopefully keep me motivated.  I'll just try to keep regular updates on here as far as what I have been working on and what my methods have been.  For now, I'll just throw this blog up and start keeping a regular journal of sorts.  Slowly I will add in some "core posts" of my overall methodology/master plan, and figure out how to sticky them to the top.