Sometimes you have to move the mountain to moses. The cost of real routers
is not really that much money. The initial cost versus the experience
gained is so high % wise that it's foolish to do any other way (just
about).
I was on an interview today and the dude said and he was kidding I bet
you have a few routers at home ?
And I told him yes about 20 odd ..
Then I told him why I had 20 and he said that I was one of a very few who
he had interviewed that had labs at home..
then he said about VOIP and much to his surprise I told him I had a couple
of VOIP boxes but just have not has the time to play with them ..
I don't really need this job but I am just keeping my options open in case
something else does not pan out.
But every job I have even from the help desk days it was my playing with
the toys that got me jobs more so than letters and passing exams.
Because thats how newbies get the experience by buying the toys and playing
with them SEEING how it works and or does not work ..
FOR ME that helps me understand it all .
like right now playing with Checkpoint and it's cool I can create a real
complicated access list debug it then export in to a router cool huh.
Kinda make the Cisco was a little arcane but it has helped me understand
access lists a heap more.
Which mean I just learn that I know very little sigh
Oz
http://www.mcseco-op.com/helpfull_links.htm
Maybe the Lab as I strongly suspect and the contributors here have rightly
indicated is the make/break but the simple question is where the devil is
Cisco going to find the Networkers to do the job? Where is the hands on
going to come and who is going to let a newbie anywhere near an operational
router?
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