IE has annouced on their blog their plan to release a ver. 5 of the Workbook Vol. I.
This is a highly welcomed development as the Vol. I really needs some re-work. And for IE to ask for comments before final version is released is a good thing. One major thing that is missing in this workbook is that there is not enough Side Notes to explain some of the technologies in detail. And another nice to have, as part of the Notes, is giving other ways of configuring a feature apart from the one they have used.
As I was “labbing up” chapter 1 of this ver. 5 Beta release last night, I came across some interesting topics and I think I like the organisation of the workbook, but it is not really too different from older version.
The chapter 1 covers most of the common bridging/switching topics like VTP, Trunking, Etherchannel, STP, MSTP, SPAN/RSPAN, Private VLANs, L2 tunneling. One topic that I will like to cover on this blog is the l2 tunneling and Fallback bridging.
You can read comments from reviewer of this vol. 5 at IE Workbookvol.1 ver. 5
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