Hello All!

Today , for the first time ever , i’m done with INE and IPX vol 1 labs. I am pretty damn sure i don’t remember atleast 10% of what i have labbed so far, but it’s time to move on. Also, i’ll definitely be revisiting these labs and going through the DSGs in the coming month.

One real COOL feature that i learnt as a result of today’s labbing was this. I didn’t know 2 things about traceroute :

• There’s a better way to do traceroute . The original algorithm is sorta inefficient for huge networks, so there was a new solution proposed and it involves using the ip option “traceroute”. Here’s the RFC. Please go through it if you’ve the time. It’s an awesome ( and surprisingly short) read.
• Also , i did not know that we could do TCP traceroutes. I always thought , there were only 2 types of traceroutes : ICMP ( windows style ) and UDP (Unix, cisco style ). There’s also a TCP traceroute which uses SYN packets sent on port-80. You can find some documentation about that HERE.

I also watched one of my favourite movies of all time – Dazed and Confused

So overall it’s been a good day. Have fun guys!

Cheers,

TacACK

Whoa! This is awesome.  A friend of mine, Simon Baumann , just passed his CCIE-sec today! He’s from Germany and he’d gone to dubai to attempt his lab.

Congrats Simon! All the hard work has definitely paid off. Now sit back and relax!

You can wish him HERE !

Cheers,
TacACK