Author: Rene Molenaar

René - CCIE #41726 is the creator of GNS3Vault.com where he shares CCNA, CCNP and CCIE R&S labs. He also blogs about networking on http://networklessons.com

OSPF Totally Stub

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Scenario: This lab is a follow-up of the OSPF Stub lab. I’d recommend you configure that lab before this one. The company specialized in selling Fantasy E-books is becoming more popular everyday and after your trainee period they…

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OSPF Stub Area

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Scenario: You are working as a trainee for a company specialized in Fantasy E-books. Since the E-book market in fantasy stories isn’t very promising at the moment they company is still using older network equipment. One of their…

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OSPF NSSA (Not so stubby area)

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Scenario: You are the network engineer for a new service provider called “Mythical Bits”. The routing protocol for the backbone of the network will be OSPF. To reduce the size of routing tables the company decided they want…

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Frame-Relay Back to Back

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Scenario You are working for a huge international car company as the senior network engineer. You need to connect a new branch office to the Headquarters. Since the company believes in proven technology they want you to connect…

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Basic Frame-Relay Switch

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Scenario You are working for a huge international car company as the senior network engineer. Recently the Frame-relay switch of one of your WAN links died and you decided to replace it with a Cisco Router. Goal: Take…

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PPP over Ethernet (PPPOE)

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Scenario: You are working for a small company as a network engineer and currently you are still using a dial-up modem for Internet access.  The company will upgrade the Internet access to a DSL connection and your service…

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Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB)

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Scenario As the network manager for a greek company called “DivineLabs” you are assigned the task to configure Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) on some of your routers. Some of the older applications that the company is still…

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More labs next week

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Hello everyone! I’ve been really busy teaching Cisco the last weeks, so there hasn’t been much time creating labs. Next week I got a week off so expect to see some fresh new labs! Please let me know…

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PPP Advanced Authentication

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Scenario: After configuring some basic PPP authentication, the management of the puppet business decided they want to increase security. One of the things they want you to do is change the behavior of using the hostname as username….

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RIP Advanced

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  Scenario: You are a freelance network engineer and one of your customers has an old network based on the RIP routing protocol. This networks needs some tuning so it’s time to use some more advanced RIP tricks….

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