Sample Frame-relay Switch configuration
October 5, 2008 by CCIETalk
Filed under Frame Relay
I started working through Narbik’s Advanced technologies workbooks today and when I got to the frame-relay section, I had to reconfigure my frame-relay switch. IE uses the FR switch as both BB1 and FRS. Here is my configuration incase anyone needs it.
Back from Narbik’s Bootcamp in Pasadena
August 16, 2008 by CCIETalk
Filed under Bootcamp, Lab Equiment
These last 2 weeks were insane. I had to finish Multicast, QoS, Security labs from Narbik’s WBs and then fly out Pasadena for the bootcamp. I think I have a list of to-do’s esp when it comes to things like IPv6, QoS, Security and Multicast. You gotta love the way Narbik teaches, no powerpoint no computer what so ever. It’s him, 3 different colored whiteboard pens and a white board!
IPexpert and Narbik Kocharians Join Forces
I didn’t expect this to happen but I guess anything can happen in the CCIE World.
Narbik’s Bootcamp - Day 3 (BGP)
What a day it was today! This was like the longest BGP lecture of my life. He has changed his method from last classes and started off with teaching us how to optimize BGP. He thinks that if we know how BGP works then it won’t be hard to work with BGP. After the lecture, we have about 260 pages of labs! Talk about stress and hard work. Narbik expects each one of us to get 100% on FR, Switching, IGP and BGP. I think he covered each subtopic under BGP and my head is still hurting with all this. But as soon as I started doing labs, everything started making sense. One of the many things I like about Narbik’s labs is that they are VERY simple. He doesn’t want us to worry too much about topology but wants all our attention on the actual technology. That’s why most of his scenarios are around 3-4 routers with easy to follow IP addressing scheme so students don’t get lost trying to figure out the topology. So in BGP he covered almost everything under the sun including peer groups, templates, route dampening, ORF, synchronization, you name it.
Narbik’s Bootcamp - Day 2
I was not able to finish all the Frame-relay labs last night so I am already behind. I think I will dedicate my Saturday & Sunday for all the leftovers. Today we covered OSPF and EIGRP with 40% lecture and 60% hands-on labs. Narbik started off with OSPF lecture and covered every single thing about OSPF you ever wanted to know. As always the starting point was that OSPF is a linkstate protocol and I thought to myself “Damn I already know that, is that why I am here?” but by the time he was done - I was like WOW! I didn’t know all this about OSPF. So we had the lecture from 9am - 3pm with a lunch break in between. At 3pm we started cranking the OSPF labs until 7pm. I was not able to finish all the labs so got some more leftovers for the weekend. I have tons of notes from the lecture that I will try to post here later on.
Narbik’s Bootcamp - Day 1
June 23, 2008 by CCIETalk
Filed under Bootcamp, Bridging & Switching, Frame Relay
Finally, the day I have been waiting for has arrived. Its 830am and I am sitting here in the class room. Comfort Inn had a nice Breakfast so I am ready to roll. We have 8 people in the class with different levels of experience. One of the guys has attempted the R&S lab 4 times already. Another guy was in the class with Ethan and Keith so we started talking about the whole Network World fiasco. Narbik looks like a teacher, and I mean Old School teacher! No projector, no power point, no computer screen - Just him and white board and he can spit commands out like a router. Guy knows every single option from the back of his head.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook RIPv2 Lab 6
“Lab 6 - Advanced RIPv2 configuration” was a very interesting lab. I actually got stuck on Task 1 that required that I configure RIPv2 on the ethernet segment. I thought it was funny that it stated if I see R1’s loopback on R2 then the configuration is successful. I thought to myself, that shouldnt take more than a minute. Well I was wrong. I didn’t pay attention the the ip addressing and it WAS NOT THE SAME! After clearing ip routing tables 5 times I said to myself: “Man this must be something tricky”. Well looked up in the answers and guess what? There is a whole paragraph on it in the docCD.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook RIPv2 Lab 1
“Lab 1 - Configuring RIPv2″ starts off as a basic RIPv2 lab that involves 4 routers R1, R2, R3 and R4. R1 & R2 and R3 & R4 have a frame-relay point-to-point connections between them. R2 & R3 are connected via a switch.
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook Frame-relay Lab 6
June 8, 2008 by CCIETalk
Filed under Frame Relay, Narbik WB
Lab 6 - “Frame-relay end-to-end Keepalive - FREEK” requires us to configure a frame-relay cloud with a hub and spoke topology using point-to-point sub-interfaces. This part was similar to the other frame-relay labs I have done in this workbook. To be honest, I have never configured end-to-end keepalives before so I had no choice but to look through the DOCCD. As always, this was a great exercise that helped me get familiar with the DOCCD 
Configuring Frame-relay end-to-end keepalives is documented under Cisco IOS Wide-Area Networking Configuration Guide, Release 12.4. Task 2 asks you to configure end-to-end keepalives using bidirectional mode. Using the command reference listed in the table, use the mode option to configure this. Task 3 requires that we configure request mode on R1 and reply mode on R3. Once again use the mode option to change the modes on the routers. These two tasks were a good starting point for me to understand keepalives. I read through the DOCCD explaination and tried a few other combinations to really master this concept. Read more
Narbik’s Soup-to-Nuts Workbook Frame-relay Lab 5
June 8, 2008 by CCIETalk
Filed under Frame Relay, Narbik WB
Lab 5 - “Point-to-point, Multipoint and PPP” builds on the earlier labs with the addition of point-to-multipoint links and PPP encapsulation. Setting up point-to-point and multipoint interfaces was a breeze and I was able to do it without looking over the DocCD. However, I struggled to configure CHAP and had to look through the UniverCD to make any sense out of it. To make matters worse, I couldn’t find Virtual Template on the DocCd and had to google a few terms. For your reference, Virtual-Template is located under “Dial Solutions” and now I can get to that without a fuss. Anyhow, once I was able to look up the configuration, it all made sense. Use the following steps to configure PPP for the link: Read more
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