This is going to be a series of posts regarding the labs from the CCIE Routing and Switching class at UOIT.
I feel like these labs are complex enough for such posts to be interesting.
Overview/Goals
As the title of the post suggest this is a lab that incorporates various L2 technologies to implement.
Technologies involved:
- Ethernet interfaces
- Serial interfaces
- VLANs
- STP
- LAGG (EtherChannel)
- PPP with CHAP/PAP authentication
- Frame Relay (ugh.)
Logical topology
Pitfalls/Things to watch out for
- The lab requires you to configure VLAN pruning on trunk links appropriately. Make sure to take a look at both the physical and logical topology to figure that out. Do this right the first time, you don’t want to backtrack later to fix issues with that later.
- Frame relay is just as annoying as it was during the CCNA labs. Lack of practice with it does not help. Not all the DLCIs shown in the logical topology actually need to be used.