ROUTE - Implementing Cisco IP Routing

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Course Outline

• Describe the Cisco conceptual network models, such as Cisco Enterprise Architectures and the Cisco hierarchical network model
• Describe the Cisco Enterprise Architecture
• Describe the traffic conditions in a converged network
• Describe the Cisco SONA framework
• Describe routing and routing protocols Lesson 2: Common Maintenance Processes and Procedures
• Describe the step required to create a typical implementation plan
• Describe the types of information contained in a typical implementation plan.
• Describe the types of task detailed in a typical implementation plan
• Describe the types of information that should be documented related to an implementation.
• Describe the way that the information related to an implementation can be documented.

• Identify the four key technologies employed by EIGRP
• Describe how EIGRP operates
• Describe the five components of the metric used by EIGRP
• Calculate the EIGRP metric for a range of pathways between routers
• Create a typical implementation plan for an EIGRP based solution.
• Document EIGRP implementation, operations and maintenance processes

• Describe the commands used in a basic EIGRP configuration task
• Select the interfaces and networks that will participate in EIGRP routing use the network command and wildcard masks
• Verify basic EIGRP operations and that the router recognizes EIGRP neighbors and their routes
• Create neighbor relationships using the neighbor command and verify that the router recognizes EIGRP neighbors and routes
• Control routing update advertisements using the passive-interface command
• Configure and verify the last-resort gateway or default route
• Determine why administrators may need to use manual route summarization over default automatic route summarization
• Configure and verify route summarization

• Describe the effect on EIGRP operations when operating over a circuit emulation link like Metro Ethernet or EoMPLS
• Describe the effect on EIGRP operations when operating over MPLS VPNs
• Describe the effect on EIGRP operations when operating over Frame Relay
• Physical interface - dynamic DLCI mapping, static DLCI mapping -broadcast vs. non-broadcast
• Logical multipoint interface - dynamic DLCI mapping, static DLCI mapping - broadcast vs. non-broadcast
• Logical point-to-point interface
• Configure and verify EIGRP operating over Frame Relay
• Physical interface - dynamic DLCI mapping, static DLCI mapping -broadcast vs. non-broadcast
• Logical multipoint interface - dynamic DLCI mapping, static DLCI mapping - broadcast vs. non-broadcast
• Logical point-to-point interface
• Describe the features of load balancing across equal paths
• Configure and verify EIGRP load balancing across unequal-cost paths
• Evaluate why EIGRP defaults may need to be changed to ensure efficient use of bandwidth across WAN links
• Configure EIGRP bandwidth use across WAN links

• Evaluate router authentication
• Describe the Message Digest 5 (MD5) authentication used in EIGRP
• Configure MD5 authentication
• Troubleshoot MD5 authentication

• Describe factors affecting scalability in large internetworks
• Describe how EIGRP uses queries to update its routing tables in the event that a route is lost and there is no feasible successor
• Mark the spokes of a large network as stubs to reduce EIGRP queries and thus improve network scaling
• Describe why stuck-in-active (SIA) connections occur
• Minimize active routes
• Illustrate how graceful shutdown prevents loss of packets when routers go down

• Describe link-state routing protocols
• Describe the two-tier hierarchy structure of OSPF
• Describe how routers running a link-state routing protocol establish neighbor adjacencies with their
• neighboring routers
• Describe how OSPF calculates the best path to each destination network
• Describe how routers use link-state updates (LSUs) to verify that links are still active
• Describe the different OSPF area types.
• Create a typical implementation plan for an OSPF based solution.
• Create a typical implementation documentation package for an OSPF based solution

• Describe the five OSPF packet types
• Describe how OSPF neighbor adjacencies are established
• Describe the process of exchanging and synchronizing the link-state databases (LSDBs, or topology tables) between routers
• Describe how OSPF maintains synchronization of the LSDBs (topology tables) of all routers in the network
• Describe the process of maintaining a database of only the most recent link-state sequence numbers
• Describe how to verify that OSPF packets are flowing properly between two routers

• Introduce OSPF network types
• Determine adjacency behavior in point-to-point links
• Determine adjacency behavior in a broadcast network
• Determine adjacency behavior in a Metro Ethernet and EoMPLS network
• Determine adjacency behavior in MPLS networks
• Select a DR and BDR
• Implement OSPF over different Frame Relay implementations
• Implement OSPF over Frame Relay NBMA
• Use sub-interfaces in OSPF over Frame Relay
• Implement OSPF over a point-to-point Frame Relay network
• Implement OSPF over a point-to-multipoint Frame Relay network

• Describe the procedure to configure basic single-area and multiarea OSPF
• Enable the route process
• Configure a router ID
• Enable OSPF on networks and interfaces using the network and ip ospf commands
• Configure basic multi-area OSPF operations
• Verify basic multi-area OSPF operations
• Neighbor relationship
• OSPF router types
• LSAs defined by OSPF
• Interpret the OSPF LSDB and routing table
• Describe how routing advertisements can be controlled using the passive-interface command
• Describe the effects of a non-contiguous backbone or area that does not connect to area 0 and how (Design note: Network mergers are a good context.)
• OSPF virtual links are used to address these issues
• Configure and verify an OSPF virtual link
• Change the cost metric from default values

• Describe the functions of inter-area route summarization and external route summarization
• Configure route summarization in OSPF
• Describe the benefits of a default route in OSPF
• Configure a default route injection into OSPF

• Describe the OSPF area types
• Configure OSPF stub areas
• Configure OSPF totally stubby areas
• Interpret information shown on routing tables for stub areas and totally stubby areas
• Configure OSPF NSSAs
• Verify all types of OSPF stub areas

• Distinguish between the two types of authentication used in OSPF
• Configure simple password authentication
• Configure MD5 authentication
• Troubleshoot simple password authentication
• Troubleshoot MD5 authentication

• Determine common network performance issues
• Identify How distribution lists work
• Use distribution lists to control routing updates
• Identify how prefix lists work
• Use a prefix list to control routing updates
• Identify how route maps work
• Use route maps to control routing updates
• Use route maps to filter routes
• Suppress routing updates using passive interfaces

• Describe the need to use multiple IP routing protocols
• Define route redistribution
• Illustrate how to configure dynamic routing protocol updates for passive interfaces and distribute lists.
• Illustrate the use of Policy routing and route maps
• Identify the seed metrics that are used by various routing protocols
• Describe the process for points of distribution in a network and identifying possible routing loops.
• Create a distribution and loop map for a given network.

• Describe the procedures necessary to configure route redistribution
• Describe how to redistribute routes into RIP
• Describe how to redistribute routes into EIGRP
• Describe how to redistribute routes into OSPF
• Assess the advantages of administrative distance in terms of routing protocols
• Modify administrative distance on the router globally for a particular routing protocol or specifically for certain routes to control path selection
• Assess the impact of administrative distance changes on routing tables
• Implement route maps with route redistribution to prevent routing loops
• Verify route redistribution operations

• Assess path control network performance
• Use filters to determine path selection
• Use PBR to determine path selection
• Configure and verify PBR
• Configure and verify PBR operations on a Cisco router

• ROUTE-01 of 3: Implement Path Control
• ROUTE-01 Lesson 1: Parallel processes when implementing Path Control
• ROUTE-01 Lesson 2: Directed Demo of Procedures to Implement Path Control by Other Methods
• ROUTE-01 Lesson 3: Self-Check Assessment

• Describe connectivity requirement between an enterprise network and an ISP.
• Describe the methods for exchanging routing information across an ISP.
• Static routes
• Common IGPs
• MPLS VPNs
• Circuit Emulation
• BGP
• Describe the types of enterprise-to-ISP connections and their effect on the selection of an exchange method.
• Single-homed
• Dual-homed
• Multi-homed
• Dual multi-homed

• Describe connectivity between an enterprise network and an ISP that requires the use of BGP, including a description of the issues that arise when an enterprise decides to connect to the Internet through multiple ISPs
• Describe BGP multi-homing options
• Describe how BGP routes between autonomous systems
• Describe how BGP uses path-vector functionality
• Describe the features of BGP in terms of deployment, enhancements over other distance vector routing protocol and database types

• Define terms used to describe BGP routers and their relationships
• Describe the requirements for establishing an external BGP (EBGP) neighbor relationship
• Describe the requirements for establishing an internal BGP (IBGP) neighbor relationship
• Use of metrics

• Initiate basic BGP configuration
• Activate a BGP session for external and internal neighboring routers
• Administratively shut down and re-enable a BGP neighbor
• Select the factors and options to correctly configure BGP
• Describe BGP neighbor states
• Configure MD5 authentication on the BGP TCP connection between two routers
• Configure and verify BGP operations in a single-homed environment.
• Troubleshoot BGP configuration

• Characterize BGP attributes that effect outbound EBGP path selection
• Select the criteria for selecting a BGP path
• Configure the AS path attribute to effect outbound EBGP path selection
• Describe how the local preference attribute can be configured to effect outbound path selection
• Configure the weight attribute to effect outbound EBGP path selection
• Use route maps to set selected attributes for selected routes to control outbound EBGP path selection
• AS Path prepending
• Local preference
• Weight
• Describe how the MED attribute can be configured to effect inbound EBGP path selection
• Describe how the AS path attribute (AS prepending) can be configured to affect inbound EBGP path selection
• Describe how to use route maps to set selected attributes for selected routes to control outbound EBGP path selection
• AS Path prepending
• MED

• Lesson 1: IPv6 Addressing and Unicast
• Lesson 2: Implementing RIPng, OSPFv3, EIGRP and Redistribution in IPv6
• Lesson 3: IPv6 Transition Techniques
• Lesson 4: NAT and PAT with IPv6

• Lesson 1: Analyzing Branch Office Designs and Planning for Branch Office Installations
• Lesson 2: Directed Demo - Implement Special Facilities for Branch Offices.

• Create an implementation plan to implement Branch Office facilities.
• Configure changes to the core network to connect to Branch Offices.
• Verify correct operation and required performance of the installed services.
• Document implementation, operations, and maintenance for the installed services.
• Lesson 3: Lab Debrief
• Lesson 4: Analyzing Mobile Workers Designs and Planning for Mobile Workers Installations
• Lesson 5: Directed Demo - Implement Special Facilities for Mobile Workers.

• Create an implementation plan to implement Mobile Workers facilities.
• Configure changes to the core network to connect to Mobile Workers.
• Verify correct operation and required performance of the installed services
• Document implementation, operations, and maintenance for the installed services
• Lesson 6: Lab 03-2 Debrief
• Lesson 7: Self-Check Assessment

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