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OSPF NSSA (Not so stubby area)
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…
Read More »Frame-Relay Back to Back
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…
Read More »Basic Frame-Relay Switch
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…
Read More »PPP over Ethernet (PPPOE)
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…
Read More »Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB)
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…
Read More »PPP Advanced Authentication
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….
Read More »Basic MPLS VPN
Scenario: Service provider “StoryTellers” is intrigued by your performance so far, before they allow you to even look at their production MPLS backbone there is another lab they would like you to configure another lab. By using MPLS…
Read More »Frame Mode MPLS
Scenario: You are working as a network engineer at an ISP called “StoryTellers” and until now you have been responsible for the Frame-Relay network of this service provider. Since MPLS is becoming more popular every day, you are…
Read More »Encrypted GRE Tunnel
Scenario: Your colleagues at “BigLabs” are very pleased with your performance so far…you managed to succesfully configure the “Basic GRE” lab and the “Site-to-Site IPSEC VPN” lab. Now it’s time to show them who the true networking expert…
Read More »Site-to-Site IPSEC VPN
Scenario: Your network colleagues were very enthusiastic when you showed them that a GRE tunnel makes it possible to tunnel routing protocols across VPN connections, and after configuring the previous “GRE Tunnel Basic” lab (see our lab section)…
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