Mark

Don't ask the rose that grew from concrete why it has damaged petals. Celebrate its tenacity. And its will to reach the sun | CCIE#30234 Security

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@Sam_A_CH @danieldibswe I bought INE material based on a newly certified CCIE’s experience. Got fortunate. But did a boot camp with IPExpert though because of timing. They had a great instructor.

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@Dayvee87 Always swore I’d do these end of every day just to keep up. But my end of day was typically well into the start of another day !

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@iunderwood @iwiizkiid Oh I hear you. Just very recently supported a customer with an ACS config. Joy and despair at the same time. Kinda like working on a Cat 6500 these days. Thankfully they were staging ISE at the time too.

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@Dayvee87 Just got through the Cisco rev up to recert course on ThousandEyes. Impressed with what I read about it.

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@realsluh @FOXSoccer No typo. Bafana Bafana is the men’s team.

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@webernetz Failover testing

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@AlaskaAir Departing Honolulu ...

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@Witty_Networker All the best.

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@iwiizkiid The Ultimate Kali Linux Book 👍🏽

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@iwiizkiid Totally agree. The BGP and route table output, plus NAT with VPN have most impressed me

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@danieldibswe Aren't they trying to rebrand everything as "Secure" something ? Firepower now Secure Firewall (it's what a firewall is supposed to try & be!). AMP Endpoint -> Secure Endpoint. ESA -> Secure Email. WSA too.

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@danieldibswe Got it. So that's got me thinking NAT Gateway is probably best placed in a "private" subnet i.e. one with VMs that don't have PIPs attached to them. I believe that is the AWS approach if I'm not mistaken.

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@iwiizkiid Congratulations.

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@SharpNetwork Yep. Ordered Cisco Catalyst 8300 routers in Oct 2021. Initial ETA was April 2022, then August 2022. Recently told Dec 2022 !

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@iwiizkiid All totally valid points. Step away for as long as you need, enjoy family & congrats on the baby on the way. Take care of your health. The CCIE is a brutal journey. Took me 4 attempts in 10mths to get there, abt 3 wks b4 my own baby. May feel different after a decent break.

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@TeneyiaRenee Keep at it. You're so close.

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@iwiizkiid First couple of times, no. At my last attempt when I passed I made sure I had no study material with me the night before. Was so bored I actually managed to go to sleep at a decent time. Was up before my alarm though but well rested.

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Tucked away in probably the farthest corner at the World of Solutions ~ Cisco's Crisis Response beast of a truck #CiscoLive

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@iwiizkiid Still have to live with it for my PBRs, but I won't complain now that EIGRP is easier to config on FTD

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No more EIGRP config via FlexConfig with the release of FTD 7.2. Happy days. If that's all I came to #CiscoLive to learn then I'm well pleased.