NSE8 – Blog 10 – Wrapping up Routing

I’m coming up on the end of our first section, routing, after right around 100 hours of studying. Let’s get to the tracker:

This past week has been slightly different in that I did divert from my consistency in daily studying while I completed an overnight maintenance window for a network migration at work (and subsequently recovered from the sleep change). However, progress is still very consistent and after another 1-2 hours of studying tonight I will go ahead and move to the next section, VPN and Overlay Technologies:

I’m excited to get going on this next phase as I have found myself slowing down and losing momentum during this routing review period I’ve been in over the past week and a half.

My only other major update is that I’ve finally received some evaluation licenses from Fortinet for a few FortiGate VMs, FortiAnalyzer, FortiManager, and FortiAuthenticator. There really won’t be application for anything but the FGTs for at least another couple of months so we’ll keep the rest stashed until then. Although I may try to set up ADVPN in the lab which I believe requires FMG.

A short update this week, and no update last week so I went ahead and posted my BGP deep notes as articles. I’ll likely do more of those moving forward for my more comprehensive notes – It forces me to extensively verify the claims I make in notes and make sure I’m keeping very high documentation standards.