That's really tough luck Aaron. I faced only one issue in RTP during my exam when the connection to lab used to break at exactly 25 minutes o each hour and then it will restore after 5 minutes. It happened 5 times but yes was a concentration breaker and again frustration/anxiety builder.
On Monday, August 27, 2012, Jay McMickle wrote: > Man, that's rough Aaron. Sorry to hear! > > Regards, > Jay McMickle- CCIE #35355 (RS), 3x CCNP (RS,Security,Design) > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 27, 2012, at 6:59 AM, Aaron O'Conner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think it just depends on what URL it’s going to. I know that you have > some config examples available, but if you try to browse to any other site > it will be blocked. I had no issue with trying to pull up a site, but it > would block them unless it was under certain categories that you said > below. **** > > ** ** > > This last attempt I didn’t have any problem accessing the documentation > site. However on my attempt about a year ago, I was not able to look up > items I was supposed to get to. I told the proctor that the documentation > website was not working and he said, “This happens sometimes, sorry.” I > wouldn’t rely too much on the documentation, or the availability of it. > You should only be looking at the site for reference anyway, and not > complete config examples. **** > > ** ** > > With all that said, I must be attracted to things breaking during my lab. > My attempt about a year ago, the fire alarm started going off in San Jose > about 11:00am. Although we got an extra 30 minutes because of it, it’s a > concentration breaker J. My last attempt a couple of weeks ago, my host > computer was not working. I couldn’t use IDM to configure the IPS to get > physical connectivity up. Then once they fixed it, I had issues with my IPS > cabling. Three of the Gig ports where not hooked up physically to the > switch. **** > > ** ** > > Good luck with your studies everyone.**** > > ** ** > > Aaron**** > > ** ** > > *From:* Ben Shaw [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Monday, August 27, 2012 7:04 AM > *To:* Adil Pasha > *Cc:* Aaron O'Conner; [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [OSL | CCIE_Security] Documentation Access in Lab**** > > ** ** > > Hi All > > I would agree that the path of documents under the Products section in the > link above is available however I had a strange issue when I did my exam in > San Jose a few weeks ago. > > I could access the Reference and Configuration Guides fine but whenever I > tried to access the Configuration Examples and Technotes or the Feature > Guides which are in the same location the CPU on my PC would spike and I > couldn't do anything. The pages would only partially load and I would get > the error message at the bottom of the IE window saying "Loaded with > errors". We had to reboot my PC and after it was rebooted I had the same > issue whenever I tried to access those documents under these sections so I > ended up giving up and just focusing on the Reference Guides and > Configuration Guides. > > I can't explain completely why this occurred but I can only think of two > things: > - Web/URL filtering is performed via software on the PC and it was this > which was causing it to spike when I went to these pages and caused them to > only partially load > > -- FNK, CCIE Security#35578
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