No more CCIE SP Lab dates for 2007?

So, a few of us were trying to schedule lab exams for CCIE Service Provider. It appears that there were no slots available for the remainder of the year. Are they that booked? Has anyone recently scheduled their date? Is Cisco making changes to the CCIE SP lab? Who knows!?!?!?!

Juniper router emulation with Olive

So this trick won't exactly help you get your CCIE, but you now can run JunOS on your PC, even in a VMWare virtual machine. I tested one of the latest version R8 releases, and it seemed to work fine, however, I only have 2 days of Juniper training, so I'm no expert.

Head over to SidSmokes or here for more information.

Cisco 7200 Simulator 0.2.7 final released!

The awesome, open-source Cisco 7200 simlator has been updated with a new version. Version 0.2.7 final has been released, after several stable release candidates. I've had great success running this software in combination with dynagen on my Ubuntu box. I've had as many as 10 virtual routers running in my lab at home - all on my old AMD 3400 with 1 Gig RAM. You can download the latest release as always here.

Welcome to CCIE Lounge!

Welcome to our blog dedicated to CCIE certification at related topics. Several of us have already obtained Routing & Switching status (including me). However, on our journey to obtaining dual CCIE status, we decided to start this blog to share information along the way. Topics will include router & firewall virtualization, tips 'n tricks, hacks, and other geek related stuff. Stay tuned.