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CCIP Practice Lab Topology
Jan 27th
I’m bored with the CCDA stuff so I’m going back to the CCIP. In preparation for this I’ve made up a new topology. Figured it couldn’t hurt to share.
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I plan on making up some requirements for a few different labs using this topology, lots of BGP and MPLS VPNs. Hopefully I can get one posted by the end of the week or early next week. I’m considering making a new page dedicated to lab challenges.
Here’s the .net file I’ve created for this one:
CCIP Lab .net file
Tell me what you guys think. Also, if anyone has some good lab requirements to throw out, I’d love to hear them.
MPLS and BGP Lab Guide, Part 6
Dec 31st
This is the sixth post in the series, the goal of the series is to provide a guide for the MPLS and BGP Lab I posted awhile back. The labs consists of MPLS VPNs and BGP along with some OSPF, NAT, IPSEC and GRE exposure. I will be posting the files needed for this lab at the bottom. Here’s the topology and the requirements:
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Requirements:
Internet
* The two Internet routers should serve as transit ASes. No other routers should permit transit traffic.
* Internet sites (modeled by loopbacks) should be accessible by all lan IPs.
MPLS and BGP Lab Guide, Part 5
Dec 22nd
This is the fifth post in the series, the goal of the series is to provide a guide for the MPLS and BGP Lab I posted awhile back. The labs consists of MPLS VPNs and BGP along with some OSPF, NAT, IPSEC and GRE exposure. I will be posting the files needed for this lab at the bottom. Here’s the topology and the requirements:
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Requirements:
Internet
* The two Internet routers should serve as transit ASes. No other routers should permit transit traffic.
* Internet sites (modeled by loopbacks) should be accessible by all lan IPs.
MPLS and BGP Lab Guide, Part 4
Dec 16th
This is the fourth post in the series, the goal of the series is to provide a guide for the MPLS and BGP Lab I posted awhile back. The labs consists of MPLS VPNs and BGP along with some OSPF, NAT, IPSEC and GRE exposure. I will be posting the files needed for this lab at the bottom. Here’s the topology and the requirements:
(click image for fullsize)
Requirements:
Internet
* The two Internet routers should serve as transit ASes. No other routers should permit transit traffic.
* Internet sites (modeled by loopbacks) should be accessible by all lan IPs.
BGP ORF Tutorial
Dec 5th
Yesterday I learned about a really interesting BGP feature that I’d never heard of. It’s called ORF (Outbound Route Filtering). With traditional filtering we have two options, filter updated in (coming from your neighbor) or out (going to your neighbor). This method works well, but there is overhead on both sides, one neighbor sending all the updates with the other neighbor filtering some or most of them. ORF is a better way of accomplishing this. Here’s the topology:
The goal of ORF is the ability of the neighbors to tell each other what prefixes they want BEFORE they are sent. This saves bandwidth and processing. For instance, R1 can tell R2 that it only cares about the 24.95.102.0/24 and 128.27.45.0/24 networks, so R2 doesn’t bother sending the 72.89.30.0/24 network at all.
Let’s get to the config:
R1
hostname R1 ! interface Loopback1 ip address 41.58.12.1 255.255.255.0 ! interface Serial0/0 ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.252 ! router bgp 6505 no synchronization bgp log-neighbor-changes network 41.58.12.0 mask 255.255.255.0 neighbor 10.1.1.2 remote-as 5680 no auto-summary |
R2
hostname R2 ! interface Loopback1 ip address 72.89.30.1 255.255.255.0 ! interface Loopback2 ip address 24.95.102.1 255.255.255.0 ! interface Loopback3 ip address 128.27.45.1 255.255.255.0 ! interface Serial0/0 ip address 10.1.1.2 255.255.255.252 ! router bgp 5680 no synchronization bgp log-neighbor-changes network 24.95.102.0 mask 255.255.255.0 network 72.89.30.0 mask 255.255.255.0 network 128.27.45.0 mask 255.255.255.0 neighbor 10.1.1.1 remote-as 6505 no auto-summary |
MPLS and BGP Lab Guide, Part 1
Dec 4th
This is the first post in the series, the goal of the series is to provide a guide for the MPLS and BGP Lab I posted awhile back. The labs consists of MPLS VPNs and BGP along with some OSPF, NAT, IPSEC and GRE exposure. I will be posting the files needed for this lab at the bottom. Here’s the topology and the requirements:
(click image for fullsize)
Requirements:
Internet
* The two Internet routers should serve as transit ASes. No other routers should permit transit traffic.
* Internet sites (modeled by loopbacks) should be accessible by all lan IPs.
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