Hi, I’m Richard! I work for a Cisco Partner. I’m fortunate in that I get to work side-by-side with a lot of other great network engineers and 95% of my time is actually spent working on as an engineer on Cisco equipment.
I’m studying for my CCIE and it’s pretty daunting. I have a family and so I need to be efficient in how I spend my time. I’m tired of using Cisco documentation to learn how to do something new as it’s both horribly written and often only understandable if one is already very familiar with the subject. I also often need some help in deploying new solutions for customers.
The other day I had a client who needed to filter traffic over a transit VLAN linking several VPLS linked sites. I couldn’t get an outbound ACL to work for the transit VLAN and the CCIE sitting next to me said only inbound ACLs would work for SVIs. He recommended a VACL, which I had never deployed before.
A quick search on the web and I came across Network Lessons with a very clear and concise example - all the other websites and especially Cisco documentation had written paragraphs and paragraphs and doing a very poor job of explaining what I wanted to know. It seems writing well is a lost art.
I joined up here because I often need very clear, easy to understand examples that are well written. I save the Cisco command reference for seeing all the options for various commands and Cisco support forums for those weird corner cases for which other people may have a solution.
Thanks!