Finished Narbik’s Advanced Technologies Vol 2
First off, I have been moving VERY SLOWLY through these workbooks. I should have finished Vol 4 today but I just finished Vol 2. The problem with these workbooks is the fact that you have to reboot after every lab.
Finished Narbik’s Advanced Technologies Vol 1
Well I was “suppose” to finish Vol 3 today but things came up and I just got done with Vol 1. Tomorrow is my day to catch up with the remaining volumes.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook BGP Labs
I spent all day today and yesterday working through the BGP labs in the workbook. As it was the case with other technologies, BGP labs started off at a basic level and ended with very advanced level labs. Some of the tasks were repeated from lab to lab and that really helped grasping the concept. I believe I need to get more familiar with the Documentation CD on this topic. I was not able to find some of the commands and had to google it rather than going through the Doc CD. That’s one of the things I have to work one so come lab time I am not struggling finding stuff on the doc cd. Hopefuly I will be that good that I wont have to look through the documentation 
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook OSPF Lab 10
“Lab 10 - OSPF and NBMA” goes over the different OSPF network types. Broadcast, Non broadcast, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint etc. I really covered this last lab half sleeping because I have been in front of this computer for last 8 hours!!! I don’t think I can take it any more. Its 11pm and I have to get to work tomorrow morning. This was a day full of OSPF. I think this got me soaked into OSPF but I def would have to come back and revisit. I am trying to make sure that I have this whole workbook finished before I show up @ Pasadena on the 23rd If you can’t tell already, I am REALLY excited about that.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook OSPF Lab 9
“Lab 9 - Limiting the number of OSPF redistributed routes” goes over limiting the number of redistributed routes in OSPF. Never did this before in my life and this is an interesting option. When I see something for the first time, I want to make sure I read the documentation on it. So let’s see what Cisco says about this.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook OSPF Lab 8
“Lab 8 - Redirecting traffic in OSPF” goes over how to define which path a router will use to get to a path if two equal cost paths are available. We can use the “max-metric” command under the router process.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook OSPF Lab 7
“Lab 7 - Filtering routes in OSPF”
One thing I have definitely learnt while working on these OSPF labs is that by default OSPF advertises loopbacks as /32 and in order for us to advertise the correct mask, we have to use ospf network type point-to-point.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook OSPF Lab 6
Lab 6 - OSPF Stub, Totally Stubby, and NSSA Areas
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Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook OSPF Lab 1
“Lab 1 - Optimization of OSPF and Adjusting Timers”
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook EIGRP Lab 6
“Lab 6 - EIGRP Stub” covers EIGRP stub routing with all the options. This was a nice lab to finish off the night with. It requires that we configure all the different options one step at a time and then answer the different questions on what we see in the routing tables.
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