Internetwork Expert Volume 3: Lab 4 & 5

My plan was to finish Labs 4, 5 and 6 but was only able to finish the first two. As I said before, these volume 3 labs are made for you to speedup your core skills. Both of these labs had some great scenarios that I got to work on. Lab 4 used PPPoverFR and [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume 3: Lab 3

Finally finished IEWB Vol 3 lab 3. Overall I would rate this at 7 with a huge IGP section. I did have a few issues but I was able to keep up the speed. Section 1 – Troubleshooting (10 min): There were two faults with the initial configuration. SW1′s ip address for fa0/1 was incorrect [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume 3: Lab 2

I was able to run through IEWB Vol 2 Lab 2 tonight. This was actually a full 4 hour lab that I was able to finish in 3 hours and 27 minutes. Some of the tasks were vague so I ended up spending more time than I would have liked.  Section 1 – Troubleshooting (10 [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume 3: Lab 1

After working through full 8-hour labs, this was a nice change. My plan was to finish 3 Vol 3 labs but I ended up doing only 1. I think this is rated at level 2 since I was able to finish this in 2 hours and 15min. IE wants you to finish the lab in [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume II: Lab 12

So after working my way through this lab for 2 days, I am finally done. One word of advice for you, never try to finish these labs in more than a day. This has happened to me over and over again where I will finish everything upto IGP in one day and then start BGP [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume II: Lab 11

IEWB Vol 2 Lab 11 was rated @ a difficulty level 9. I think looking at the rating screws me up and I start thinking that this lab is going to be very tough even before I start reading. So what I have decided now is that I will not attempt any of the labs [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume II: Lab 10

I started this lab yesterday but was not able to finish it in a day. I was able to finish upto BGP section and then some things came up. I finally finished this lab up today. This lab had a difficulty rating of 8 aka tough stuff! IGP section alone had 27 points so I [...]

EIGRP unequal cost load balancing

EIGRP Unequal Cost Load Balancing

EIGRP unequal-cost load balancing is one of those topics that we all try to run away from. EIGRP will not perform unequal cost load balancing by default and we have to use the variance command to do so. While working through IE’s vol 2 workbook, I came across a real nice lab that tested unequal [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume II: Lab 9

This lab is rated at a difficulty level 8 so that means it is harder than an average lab. After reading through the lab, I saw that BGP/EIGRP was pre-configured meaning more work looking through the configs/outputs to draw the topology diagrams. Also there were no initial errors to my relief and I was able [...]

Internetwork Expert Volume II: Lab 8

After getting owned by Lab 7, I was looking at something to get my confidence back. After going over the whole thing, I don’t think it was the lab that was difficult, it was more of the fact that I didn’t understand the basics of redistribution and that in turn reflected on the whole lab. [...]