When you look at the blueprint for the CCIE lab exam you’ll notice a lot of separate items. These often appear as disparate things. When you study them you think you understand them and are able to apply them during a test. However, they don’t test your ability to configure separate technologies in isolated environments. They will test whether you understand the technologies and are able to combine them to make a solution work.
One of the seemingly complicated things to do in BGP is conditional advertisements. This can be used to apply policy to routes and only advertise specific routes when you (don’t) have another route. For example, you only advertise a default route when you have specific routes from a peer.
Another example is when you’re connected to two ISPs, but you prefer data to traverse just one of the two links. Maybe because one link is more expensive than the other or less reliable.
The tasks below are the first tasks that should be performed for the lab files I’ve included in my earlier post
One of the issues I’m running into now I’ve failed my lab while studying for my second attempt is that I have used most of the resources available out there. Of course I can still learn from those resources, but it will largely be repeating stuff I’ve already done. It will help me to increase my speed and will help reinforce my knowledge, but I still wanted to have some other resources.
Yesterday was my first attempt at the CCIE RS lab. I would have liked to write here that it would also be my only attempt, but unfortunately I failed. I already knew as I was walking out of the Cisco Brussels office that I did not pass, but the e-mail I received this morning removed all (if any) hope I had left. Pass, Pass, Fail, that was my verdict. I knew I was going to fail, but a pass, pass, pass, fail would have been a little bettter.
CCIE blueprint: 2.4.a Implement and troubleshoot RIPv2
When looking at the blueprint for CCIE RIPng is not listed as a subject. However, it is good practice to have some knowledge of this routing protocol.
This post is part of a multipost series about RIP. Other posts in this series are:
RIP RIP configuration part 1 RIP configuration part 2 RIP authentication RIP summarization Miscelanious RIP commands Since IPv6 contains much longer addresses it is more difficult to use the old syntax that is used for RIP.
CCIE blueprint: 3.4.a Implement and troubleshoot RIPv2
This post is part of a multipost series about RIP. Other posts in this series are:
RIP RIP configuration part 1 RIP configuration part 2 RIP authentication Miscelanious RIP commands RIPng Because RIP is a distance vector routing protocol summarization can be applied everywhere in the topology. This makes it easy to apply policy using summarization.
For this post I’m using a very simple network shown in the diagram below.
CCIE blueprint: 3.4.a Implement and troubleshoot RIPv2
This post is part of a multipost series about RIP. Other posts in this series are:
RIP RIP configuration part 1 RIP configuration part 2 RIP summarization Miscelanious RIP commands RIPng This post will zoom in to the authentication process in RIP. This is largely the same for other protocols, so a lot of this information can be applied to other routing protocols.
CCIE blueprint: 3.4.a Implement and troubleshoot RIPv2
This post is part of a multipost series about RIP. Other posts in this series are:
RIP RIP configuration part 2 RIP authentication RIP summarization Miscelanious RIP commands RIPng This post will cover the configuration of RIP. Basic RIP configuration is peanuts and done in seconds. There are some additional features that can be configured, but most of the time these won’t really be necessary.
CCIE blueprint: 3.4.a Implement and troubleshoot RIPv2
This post is part of a multipost series about RIP. Other posts in this series are:
RIP RIP configuration part 1 RIP authentication RIP summarization Miscelanious RIP commands RIPng This post is a continuation of the previous post. This post will cover the following configuration items for RIP:
RIPv1 and Ripv2 interoperability Bidirectional Forwarding Detection RIPv1 and RIPv2 interoperability By default, when you enable RIP it enables version 1.