An intensive hands on IP routing course leading to LINX Accredited Internet Technician stage 2 focusing on routing in an IP environment. The course concentrates on OSPF and IS-IS but also covers STP and VLANS. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific manufacturer equipment.
TCP/IP Foundation for engineers
By the end of the course delegates will be able to:
Basic routing
Review of LAIT I routing, reading routing tables.
Setting up a routed network.
Static routes
Why use static routes? Default routes.
Configuring static routes.
First hop redundancy
Default gateways, VRRP/HSRP/GBLP. Load sharing, critical IP addresses.
VRRP.
OSPF
What is OSPF? Process IDs, passive interfaces.
Simple OSPF.
Subnetting
Bit boundary subnetting, calculating network numbers. Exercise: Subnetting.
OSPF
Metrics, convergence, DV vs. Link state, IGPs, classless, OSPF features, load sharing, OSPF authentication.
OSPF features.
OSPF within an area
How OSPF works, LSDB, LSAs, router IDs, hellos, configuring hellos, exchange protocol.
Investigating OSPF structures.
Areas
Scalability, why areas? Area IDs, area 0, ABRs, ABR resilience, areas & LSDBs & LSAs, Type 3s, virtual links.
Multi area OSPF.
Redistribution
Multiple routing protocols, common scenarios, routing distance, External LSAs, E1 and E2. Type 4 LSAs. OSPF and default routes.
Configuring static route redistribution.
Route aggregation
Route summarisation. How to aggregate, ABR summarisation, ASBR summarisation.
OSPF address summarisation.
OSPF packet formats
OSPF packets, protocol stack, packet flows, OSPF headers, neighbours, neighbour states, DRs, adjacencies, BDRs, DR election.
Analysing OSPF packets, troubleshooting.
OSPF stub areas
LSA types, area types, area architecture, stub areas, default routes, benefits & disadvantages of stub areas, TSSAs, NSSAs, Type 7 LSAs.
Stub and TSSA configuration.
IS-IS
End systems, Intermediate systems, how IS-IS works, IS-IS router ID, Level 1, Level 2, IS-IS hierarchy.
Configuring IS-IS, troubleshooting IS-IS.
Routing IPv6
Multiprotocol routing, IPv6 addressing, IPv6 routing tables, IPv6 static routes, OSPFv3, IS-IS and IPv6.
Routing IPv6.
STP and L2 routing
STP, RSTP, TRILL, SPB.
RSTP.
MPLS
Core MPLS, MPLS and the 7 layer model, MPLS protocol, MPLS standard, MPLS runs on routers, MPLS history, Why MPLS?. LSRs, PE and P router roles, FEC, swapping labels, MPLS packet format.
Enabling MPLS. Testing and troubleshooting of MPLS.
EXAM
Appendix: EIGRP: How EIGRP works, DUAL.
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