I Failed NetworkChuck's Packet Tracer LAB Twice!

[Music] [Music] hi everybody I'm Tony at show IP interface brief and I want to do another epic fail video it seems to be the only thing I'm good at lately is failing and and that's very important to face this head-on about a week ago Network Chuck and Keith Barker traded a lab back and forth Keith Barker created a lab for his CCNA class Network Chuck took that lag lab injected some faults into it and broke the lab and then gave it back to Keith for him to solve and I saw them talking about this on Twitter and and network chuck was saying can you fix this network and put it out there and anyone can download it and try it and I haven't lab din a very long time since I did my CCIE and I thought you know what I'm gonna give it a try no problem so I had some struggles even getting started first I had to get packet tracer then I had to get an account on the Learning Network I had to get the soft getting the software and installed in an account was rough that Saturday morning and what I wanted to do is I wanted to go ahead and record mine before keith Barker aired his solution to the lab so I jumped in that Saturday morning right away and started and started recording after I got packet tracer installed and once I opened the topology it seemed very simple I said you know what okay no problem let's go ahead and get this taken care of we are all quarantined at home because of the corona virus and and it was you know my time to be a dad in the family so I had with me my my beautiful little number three baby girl and and she was helping me on my labs as you can see and it was quite a distraction to have her in my lap while I was doing this lab in fact I felt like kind of a badass having the baby in the lab while sort of working this lab with one handed and working my way through the lab you know I thought I was going to be very successful and a nice sort of boastful show-off moment you don't have many in your life but when you do and that was how the day started and it quickly went downhill working with her in my lap as you can see as I kind of scroll through this video was quite a pain I really couldn't get much done she kept dropping her toys I just I couldn't get anything done she was banging on the keyboard my lovely wife came in to take her from me after a few minutes and and I went and quickly douve into making an excellent solution video that was gonna knock everybody's socks off and if you take a look at the timeline on my editing software here this lab took me if I go all the way to the end of it in hour and 26 minutes in hour and 26 minutes I worked this lab and I did not solve it in fact I was having some real basic connectivity with simple simple connectivity on two hosts sharing the same VLAN I was getting so frustrated I was working myself into the rabbit hole I was going far down the rabbit hole trying to figure out what could possibly be going wrong with this thing to the point that after an hour and 27 minutes I didn't even fix one thing that was working properly and I had to give up and that was a real awakening there was a real awakening to say how far and how far I've come all the studies that I've done in all the labs that I've done in everything that I've worked so hard for to prepare for the CCI and here I'm presented with this little tiny typologies little packet tracer topology it's tiny in comparison to the CCIE labs and I couldn't even get basic connectivity between two hosts in the same VLAN and I did not know what the solution was so I quit after about an hour and a half of not getting it I quit I couldn't sit here the entire Saturday my you know I had my family here I this was supposed to be a quick thing and I was gonna be done so I made my recording and I kept it right here and I failed I was going to publish this and I decided not to so many hours went by and I don't know what time of day it was but later on that evening I said you know what I have to go back and solve this lab I have to be successful I will not let this lab beat me so later on that night after everyone went to bed I fired up the recording software got the microphone ready and started the lab again from scratch I did not start where I did last time I started at the other end of the topology I started at the other end just so I could have a complete fresh perspective on it because out of everything that I've learned through my CCIE preparation efforts I learned a lot of Technology I learned a lot of protocols I learned a lot of configurations but one of the things I learned most of all was not giving up was when you go down the rabbit hole you need to stop quit take a walk come back and reset and that's basically what this was this was a reset this was a mental reset for me because I really had my ego shattered on the first one I couldn't figure out why two hosts on the same VLAN could not ping each other could not reach each other it was absolutely embarrassing and I fit in a phase that I wear as a badge but I didn't want to fail so I wanted to try again so I tried again and I started at the other end of the topology and I'm actually being quite successful I'm being very efficient I'm being very clean and being very methodical with my troubleshooting and I start working the lab and it's doing okay for me in fact I think this right here is a great snapshot on how I felt at the end of my first take just my head in my hand and I have no idea what's going on but as I move to my second take I'm happy things are going well we're working we're working we're working and I shot my second take for about an hour and a half almost two hours more than no more than two hours it took me more than two hours to shoot my so my second attempt at the solution and I noticed some very strange and buggy things going on packet tracer has made a lot of advancements from when I used it when I was used it when I was studying in the netacad program it was very basic functionality back then and there's a lot more functionality and many more devices and many more capabilities and packet tracer but it is still lacking it is still not emulating a real network it's great I think for the CCNA program and some of the CCNP work in getting you used to a nice structured approach in in some predetermined labs that Cisco can build that follow a curriculum it's decent software but for this challenge it is not great software I found some very strange things happening that I cannot explain it was a fun lab I'm gonna tell Network chuckin Keith Barker it was a fun lab for everybody it's definitely fun it's worth trying but what I found most frustrating of all was the lab software itself there are some bugs in there that aren't quite right I had to do a right mem and reload on a couple of devices that shouldn't even a fix anything but it did fix some things once I worked from one into the topology back to where I failed on my very first one I got stuck again I got stuck again at the same place at the same place with the same stuff and I did not know what was the solution that was late Saturday night I spent over two and a half hours recording this lab and right when I was I would say at the end trying to get the last bit of connectivity if I scroll ahead in my lab here somewhere I got a crash I got this crash packet tracer has stopped working unexpectedly please save a Diagnostics dump file I couldn't believe it after putting two and a half hours into working this lab just to have the software crash it was an absolute nightmare for me I felt completely defeated it didn't have the the reason to go again I didn't release these recordings because if you notice at the end here these are two video streams in an audio stream and they should have all began and ended at the same moment and they didn't the audio is started to track off um I'm not sure what the problem was or is and in trying to correct the audio and video would have made it very choppy and just it would have been worthless absolutely worthless anyhow so that was Saturday night I worked very hard at that lab so what I did was Sunday morning I got up I watched Keith Barker's YouTube premiere his YouTube recording of him solving it and I was very happy and relieved to see that one all of the problems all of the faults that were injected I did find them all and I did correct them all however my solution still wasn't working I still did not have client-to-client end-to-end connectivity between all of the clients but I was also very happy and relieved to see that Keith Barker had the same problem I did in the lab that made me feel awesome because I was like okay you're like I'm I'm not crazy like this is this is a real problem but what I didn't do was I didn't stay cool about it instead I got very frustrated and that was that was wrong that was a problem to fix the solution Keith Parker saved the lab I watched me saved the lab he closed the software and he reopened it and that was something I did not do I kept the software open I kept it running I kept trying to reload the devices I guess that approach doesn't work very well and maybe the software needs to be rebooted from time to time so so that was my attempt at these labs it was very humbling because one of the things I learned from my CCIE preparations was never give up when you go down the rabbit hole you need to come back out and one of the things I never expected in all of the labs that I've done I have never needed to close my simulation software or my emulation software whether I'm using gns3 or Eve I never had to shut them down for a lab to keep working sometimes there have been some things where I needed to reboot a device that's pretty common but never need I needed to close the software down and reboot it so that wasn't even a strategy that I wasn't going to employ a few days later I saw Demetri Fiegel also on Twitter said he wanted to give it a try on stream and he's uh he's a excellent software and network engineer with Cisco and I was also relieved to see that his packet tracer was a little buggy also so there were some serious lessons learned there and I just wanted to put this recording out there because because I said I would and I didn't want to not do it because I failed twice so I'm putting it out there I failed twice lessons were learned and it was a fun lab um I absolutely loved laughing that's why I wanted to jump in and do it that's why I said no problem because I enjoy doing these type of things but I failed and the entire time for over week now I've had this recording software open just like this and thinking what am I going to do with these recordings so this is it after this they go in the trash thanks guys I'll see you next time [Music]

Channel: Tony E

Views: 353

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: cisco, packet, tracer, packettracer, networkchuck, ccna, ccnp

Id: -Uxat9ZEdOQ

Length: 15min 11sec (911 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 14 2020