This one is a bit late, but hey better late than never. BGP is next so hopefully no more frame relay.
CCIE Lab Diary – EIGRP Lab
Overview/Goals
Implement EIGRP in a 9 router network with frame relay as the underlying L2 encapsulation to demonstrate protocol behaviours in a NBMA environment. Also involves tweaking of various parameters using summarization, redistribution, various stub types, distribute lists etc.
Technologies involved:
- Serial interfaces
- Ethernet interfaces
- Frame Relay
- EIGRP
Logical topology
Pitfalls/Things to watch out for
- Frame Relay PVC issues
- EIGRP timers on “slow” links, might want to tune them
CCIE Lab Diary – Layer 2 Lab
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.