Well, day 1 was yesterday.

Quite a day it was, running from 9am till 9pm-ish.

We were all delayed at the beginning of the day due to idle timeouts to the terminal server.

For users of securecrt under session options, its pretty eas to resolve this…just send a character every 5 secs or something.

As I am using iterm under mac os x, I somewhat struggled here.

Did find an option to send an ASCII character on timeout for default terminal profile (iterm users will know what I mean). Will test it today to see if my sessions time out.

If my sessions still time out, Ill just switch to the windows virtual machine, and use securecrt.

As I didnt have securecrt under windows, this was the main reason I didnt use windows from the start.

Anyway will see how things go today with the idle timeout.

On the learning side of things, Narbik went over elements of layer 2 security (DHCP snopping, dynamic arp inspection etc), and later covered frame relay.

Now I thought I could not learn anything more about frame relay prior to attending, but there were a few surprises, and I learned stuff that I just havent seen from books etc.

Narbik’s memory really is something else…as others have said, there are no slides, its all whiteboard.

Narbik also does not like you using a option unless its really needed, eg…a lot of ppl *cough* will put no frame inverse under the main serial interface. Well if theres no IP address under the main interface, why do no frame inv? After all no inarp requests will be sent out a main interface that has no IP address assigned to it.

Narbik also does not like the use of the broadcast keyword used after frame maps unless its really needed

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Didn’t really get much work done after the bootcamp this night, as some of my colleagues and I spent some time just trying to find a chinese that was open The chinese takeaway was ridicilously expensive too…can you say over 5 quid for special fried rice?!

Anyway Im sure today will go smoother.

There is a certain challenge though that needs to be overcome and that is with ppl talking about various things non bootcamp related, and you are trying to concentrate

Someone in gs mentioned the use of earplugs, and I can see why!

All in all though yesterday was a good day.