Hi Kev,
The reason i am going to do this is because i want as much information about tcpip as possible, the way i am looking at it is if i photoread evrthing i can get my hands on about networking and tcpip then it will help the information i require come to me more easily and my overall goal is to be able to problem solve quicker, you see most of the time in networking, it is trouble shooting as aposed to engineering, setting up the network is a dodle compared to fixing problems as it could be a million and one things thats the problem.
To simplify for you what im saying is this:
Lets say i have set a network up for 100's of computers and everything is going fine, the network is up and running as is working efficiently, when something goes wrong which it will at some point, i am hoping that because i have read just about everything pertaining to tcpip and networking that ill be able to trouble shoot faster and more easily, with all that information in my other than concious mind, it would be unlikly that i wont find the problem fatser as my mind can sift through the information and give me the answer's i require.
As far as the course goes i am just nearing the end of the first part of the course and will be going into the advanced networking topics for the CCIE certification.
Also my ultimate goal is to have such a high level of knowlege about the network industry, so that ill be among a handfull of people that have that knowlege and therefore be one of the ferw people that will be called to fix the problems that arise etc etc.....
I hope this post answers all your questions and i look forward to hearing from you on you 12 book project keep me posted
Kind regards Andreas
