My motivation song : Till I collapse from the slim shady

(Go left, go left, go left right left)
'Cause sometimes you just feel tired
You feel weak and when you feel weak
(Go left, go left, go left right left)
You feel like you wanna just give up
But you gotta search within you
(Go left, go left, go left right left)
You gotta find that inner strength
And just pull that shit out of you
And get that motivation to not give up
(Go left, go left, go left right left)
And not be a quitter
No matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse

Till I collapse I'm spillin' these raps long as you feel 'em
Till the day that I drop you'll never say that I'm not killin' them
'Cause when I am not then I am stop pinnin' them
And I am not hip hop and I'm just not Eminem
Subliminal thoughts when I'm stop sendin' them
Women are caught in webs, spin and hauk venom
Adrenaline shots of Penicillin could not get the illin' to stop
Amoxacilin is just not real enough
The criminal cop killin' hip hop fillin' minimal swap
To cop millions of pac listeners
Your comin' with me, feel it or not you're gonna fear it
Like I showed you the spirit of God lives in us
You hear it a lot, lyrics the shock is it a miracle
Or am I just a product of pop fizzin' up
For shizzle my whizzle this is the plot listen up
You pizzles forgot slizzle does not give a fuck

Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
Till the smoke clears out and my high wear out
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse
(Until the roof, until the roof)
Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
(The roof comes off, the roof comes off)
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
(Until my legs, until my legs)
Till the smoke clears out and my high wear out
(Give out from underneath me)
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse

Music is like magic there's a certain feelin' you get
When your real and you spit and people are feelin' your shit
This is your moment and every sin'le minute you spend
Tryin' to hold onto it 'cause you may never get it again
So while you're in it try to get as much shit as you can
And when your run is over just admit when its at its end
'Cause I'm at the end of my wits with half this shit that gets in
I got a list here's the order of my list that it's in
It goes, Reggie, Jay-Z, Tupac and Biggie
Andre from Outkast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas and then me
But in this industry I'm the cause of a lot of envy
So when I'm not put on this list the shit does not offend me
That's why you see me walk around like nothin's botherin' me
Even though half you people got a fuckin' problem with me
You hate it but you know respect you've got to give me
The presses wet dream like Bobby and Whitney Nate hit me

Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
Till the smoke clears out and my high wear out
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse
(Until the roof, until the roof)
Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
(The roof comes off, the roof comes off)
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
(Until my legs, until my legs)
Till the smoke clears out and my high wear out
(Give out from underneath me)
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse

Soon as a verse starts, I eat it at MC's heart
What is he thinkin'? I'ma not to go against me, smart
And its absurd how people hang on every word
I'll probably never get the props I feel I ever deserve
But I'll never be served my spot is forever reserved
If I ever leave earth that would be the death of me first
'Cause in my heart of hearts I know nothin' could ever be worse
That's why I'm clever when I put together every verse
My thoughts are sporadic, I act like I'm an addict
I rap like I'm addicted to smack like I'm Kim Mathers
But I don't want to go forth and back in constant battles
The fact is I would rather sit back and bump some rappers
So this is like a full blown attack I'm launchin' at them
The track is on some battlin' raps who want some static
'Cause I don't really think that the fact that I'm Slim matters
A plaque of platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest

Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
Till the smoke clears out and my high wear out
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse
(Until the roof, until the roof)
Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
(The roof comes off, the roof comes off)
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth
(Until my legs, until my legs)
Till the smoke clears out and my high wear out
(Give out from underneath me)
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse

(Until the roof)
Until the roof
(The roof comes off)
The roof comes off
(Until my legs)
Until my legs
(Give out from)
Underneath me
I will not fall
I will stand tall
Feels like no one could beat me

CCIE Number going fast

IpExpert announce the CCIE #29981, only 19 number before 30000. It's seems that CCIE number is  going too fast. Is it the exam nowadays not so difficult? or the number of attendants growing too fast.

I can told you that the exam is always difficult, make no mistake CCIE is the most difficult exam in the world, the number of attendant is higher than ever nowaday (with all the chinese guys who want to be CCIE, indian guys)
the growth of the number of attendant can show us one thing the place of networking in today IT world.


What will be my number?  I want to pass the lab in Jan/Feb 2k12 maybe 31560 (lol)

2nd Proctorslabs vrack

During my 2nd proctorslabs vrack, I continue as I say the last week going deeper in layer 2 technologies.

I get into vol 1 lab 4 (rapid per-vlan spanning-tree), lab 5 (L2 tunneling), lab 7 (bridging and frame-relay) and lab 10 (ospf)

Different labs but same problem for me:  Private Vlan, I do my best but I can't remember the steps for properly configuring Private Vlan (some advice?)

I really appreciate the lab 5 and lab 10 because I do them without any help (no look to the solution guide)

In your path to the CCIE, you will see great improvement in your comprehension of multiple technologies and how to configure and tweak them in the craziest way as possible ; but when you can’t answer a question in a lab you feel disappointed because you though that you catch all the parts of the puzzle . I think now it’s just a reminder for being always humble and always keep learning. 

You will always find problems that you can’t solve, but at least you should always try to.

1st Proctorlabs vrack

I just finished my 7h45min of vrack on Proctorlabs.

What can I say about their vrack system, honestly nothing.

All the switches and routers respond quickly, we don't see the distance when we are in front of our securecrt (or putty) we completely forget that the equipment are far away from you.

I used my 7h45 min to do Lab1, Lab2 and Lab3. As I already sayed in the past these labs are on layer 2 technologies.

It’s important to take time to master layer 2 technologies because, when we use gns3 like me, gns3 don't offer you all the layer 2 commands you need for a complete preparation.

I will plan to take another 7h45min of vrack for the other layer 2 technologies lab (especially for frame-relay, bridging and tunelling)

After today vrack , I need to review private-vlan and ethertype number (for doing mac access-list)

IpExpert Vol1 : Lab 1 - Lab 7

All theses labs are related to L2 technologies and some miscellaneous topics

We learned about:

> STP, MSTP, RSTP, PVST+, RPVST+ (how to deal with Cost, Priority, Root Bridge, Secondary Root Bridge, Diameter, Timers,  Uplinkfast,  Backbonefast)

> DOT1Q (tag native vlan), ISL, trunking, VTP (mode, password, pruning, manage extended vlans)

> Ether-channel (PAGP, LACP, static with port-channel command), UDLD (udlp port [aggressive])

> QinQ, L2 protocol tunneling (l2protocol-tunnel, dot1q-tunnel)

> CDP (no advertise vtp infos, CDP source interface)

> 802.1X with aaa (port-control auto|force-authorized|force-unauthorized, dot1x system auth-control, aaa new-model)

> Monitor Session (remote span)

> Frame-Relay (encapsulation type, interface-dlci,frame map ip @ip <dcli>, no frame inv), MFR, PPP Over FR (virtual-template), back 2 back FR (no keepalive)

> Switch Port-Security, Error Recovery, Private-Vlan, Protected Port

> Bridging (bridge x protocol ieee, bridge irb, bridge 1 route ip, bridge-group x)

> NTP (basic config)

> How to use special characters (Ctrl-V before the special character)

Read carefully the questions, for the anwsers avoid over-thinking: KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)

Break the questions in small part an try to resolve these parts

Pay attention that your new configuration isn't breaking the past config; never break the old until it's specified to you in the scenario)

Independance Day

Today is my country bithday, 51 years old.

Peace and Love for my country.

May God grant that CISCO, HP, IBM, GOOGLE and the other big IT companies opened offices in Cote d'Ivoire. :-)

GNS3 tips !!

I'm involved in, IPExpert Vol1 Workbook as many others students i use gns3 and the topology file give to us by IPExpert on their website.

The topology use router with two NM-16ESW card for emulate a switch (gns3 can't emulatea real switch) after redesigning their topology for my gns3 environment, I began to see two pbs:

1- speed and duplex mismatch
 (correction when you use the default ethernet interface of 3725 you have to fix the speed and duplex on both side of the link)
2- can't ping even the vlan ip addres of a switch instead of having a router port in that vlan, cant't ping ip address on a different switch in my topology, meanwhile everything in my config was good
(correction2 NM-16ESW card on a router can't communicate I don't know why, even if some times the forum on the web say the opposite, if your traffic needs to go from one card to an other one it's will be impossible, try to use only one NM-16ESW card)

After all these changes everything seems working properly.

CCIE R&S Written Exam Passed

Ok, as i promise i successfully passed the CCIE 350-001 written exam this morning.

I'm very happy, even if i know get the written doesn't mean you are 5% ready to the lab it's just a prerequisite, but i think it's better to have it than not.

Let's go to the Lab i plan to take it on February or March 2K12

IPExpert VOL1 -Lab 1

I made this week-end the Lab1 of IPExpert Vol1. It’s a very good introduction to the rest of the book some tricky tasks (always).

The most difficult part wasn’t the lab itself, but the way to adapt the gns3 topology to the proctors labs diagram. Why IPExpert doesn’t give us a fully ready to go gns3 files (.net files, initial and final configs) it’s would be a great time saving for the CCIE aspirants.

The most funny task was how to change the console password to ip?expert, yes ? is in the password