Alrighty, so right when you think I am done with OSPF Joe Astorino over at IPexpert.com stirs up my thought patterns in my brain and causes me to rethink OSPF LSA's. I am still digesting it now, but here is the link to the article.

http://blog.ipexpert.com/2009/11/04/ospf-type-4-lsa-the-forward-address-part-1/

The main Focus for me is the following quote:

"Let’s talk about the ASBR and the type-4 LSA. This is a topic that seems to confuse many people. Doing a quick Google search will turn up plenty of results claiming that a type-4 LSA is generated by the ASBR. This is simply not true. The type-4 LSA is generated by an ABR. The purpose of it is simply to inform other areas of next-hop information for the ASBR. In other words, it is injected into other areas by the ABR so that routers in other areas know how to get to external routes through the ASBR."

I'll let that digest for a while as I contemplate my next move.

Car problems:

In other news, my Wife's Ford Explorer fuel pump took a nice large steamy pile of crap (hey I am very descriptive ok?) so $1345.00 for the repair today. $55 dollars shy of a Lab attempt! Yea, I am pretty mad about it but I can't do anything about it. 15 years ago, I was studying for my ASE (Automotive Service Excellence) and decided not to do it and went into IT, so I know a lot about cars, but somethings like taking the gas tank out and dropping the axle out and replacing all that stuff - I just don't have the equipment for that, so I have to pay them to do it.

Studying:

So ok - I am done talking about that. I also took 2 FULL days off to re center myself. I have been studying like a beast and I needed a good break. I think it will do me good, it's 4:30pm and I am just about to crack open Doyle's "Routing TCP/IP Volume 1 second edition" to read more on IPv6, since that is one of my weak areas. Turns out, IPv6 is not that bad which is welcome in the CCIE RS blueprint where everything it seems can be a large list of tasks to get things working right. Ipv6 while yes it's got a lot to it, it's just different.

Trying to get things going so I can get my CCIE RS written done by December 15th 2009, but as you find out things such as stupid car problems and life in general can slow you down. Right now, I am on target to meet this goal but with Thanksgiving coming up, having to go out of town etc - I hope I can still achieve this.

-Nick