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Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
The Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) set of remote lab exercises provides the practice and skills that help the CCIP candidates to achieve the CCIP certification. This subscription-based product consists of exercises associated with the following courses:
- Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) v3.0,
- Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP) v3.2,
- Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS) v2.2, and
- Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QOS) v2.2.
The BSCI lab exercises cover the BGP configuration as well as advanced aspects (including route redistribution) of the common interior routing protocols such as EIGRP, IS-IS and OSPF. The set of exercises also includes IPv6 addressing, tunneling and OSPFv3 labs. IP Multicast routing is also covered.
This BGP lab exercises cover all aspects of BGP configuration, including simple BGP connectivity with a service provider, influencing BGP route selection and configuring BGP filtering mechanisms, such as AS-path filters, prefix lists and weights. Additionally the configuration of a transit autonomous system with scalability solutions such as BGP route reflectors and BGP confederations are covered. The exercises also address configuration of advanced BGP features such as Local Preference, AS-Path prepending, MED, BGP communities, peer groups, and route flap dampening.
The MPLS lab exercises cover different aspects of MPLS configuration and monitoring, including Frame-mode MPLS and several MPLS VPN scenarios such as overlapping VPNs, management VPNs and Internet VPNs.
The QOS lab exercises cover different aspects of QoS configuration and monitoring, including classification and marking, congestion management using various queuing mechanisms, traffic shaping and policing. The Modular QoS Command-line Interface (MQC) as well as AutoQOS mechanism to provision QoS on Cisco platforms is covered.
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This set of lab exercises contains the following exercises:
- Configuring Basic BGP
- Configuring a Transit AS
- Using Multihomed BGP Networks
- Employing AS-Path Filters
- Filtering with Prefix-Lists
- Implementing Changes in BGP Policy
- Influencing BGP Route Selection with Weights
- Setting BGP Local Preference
- Understanding BGP Multi-Exit Discriminator
- Addressing BGP Communities
- Introducing Route Reflectors
- Configuring and Monitoring Confederations
- Limiting the Number of Prefixes Received from a BGP Neighbor
- Implementing BGP Peer Groups
- Using BGP Route Dampening
- Configuring and Tuning EIGRP
- Configuring Single Area OSPF
- Configuring OSPF for Frame Relay Environment
- Configuring a Multiarea OSPF Network
- Configuring Intergrated IS-IS in Multiple Areas
- Configuring Route Redistribution
- Configuring BGP
- Scaling BGP
- Configuring Multicast Routing
- Configuring IPv6 Addressing, OSPFv3 Routing and IPv6 Tunnel
- Establishing the Service Provider IGP Routing Environment
- Establishing the Core MPLS Environment
- Initial MPLS VPN Setup
- Running EIGRP Between PE and CE Routers
- Running OSPF Between PE and CE Routers
- Running BGP between PE and CE Routers
- Overlapping MPLS VPN Topology
- Merging Service Providers
- Common Services MPLS VPN Topology
- Internet Connectivity in an MPLS VPN
- Implementing Basic MPLS TE
- Baseline QoS Measurement
- Configuring QoS with AutoQoS
- Classification and Marking Using MQC
- Classification Using NBAR
- Configuring QoS Pre-classify
- LAN-Based Packet Classification and Marking
- Configuring Basic Queuing
- Configuring LLQ
- Queuing on Catalyst Switches
- Configuring DSCP-Based WRED
- Configuring Class-Based Policing
- Configuring Class-Based Shaping
- Configuring Class-Based Header Compression
- Configuring LFI
Objectives
Upon finishing this set of exercises, you will be able to:
configure basic BGP and BGP in a Transit AS
- use multihomed BGP networks
- employ AS-Path filters and prefix lists
- implement BGP policy by using parameters such as Weight, Local Preference, MED and Communities
- configure BGP Router Reflectors and Confederations
- limit the number of prefixes received from a BGP neighbor
- implement BGP Peer Groups
- use BGP route dampening
- Configure and Tune EIGRP
- Configure OSPF in various scenarios
- Configure Integrated IS-IS
- Configure Route Redistribution
- Configure and scale BGP
- Configure IP Multicast
- Configure IPv6 addressing, routing and tunneling
- configure IGP and Core MPLS in a Service Provider environment
- setup the initial MPLS VPN support
- configure PE-CE routing protocol using EIGRP, OSPF and BGP
- merge two service provider network by configuring the central P router
- configure various MPLS VPN topologies including: overlapping VPN, common services VPN and Internet VPN
- implement basic MPLS Traffic Engineering
- establish baseline QoS measurement
- use AutoQoS for configuring QoS
- classify traffic by using MQC and NBAR
- configure QoS Pre-classify feature
- configure LAN-base packet classification
- configure basic queueing and LLQ
- configure queueing on LAN switches
- configure DSCP-based WRED
- configure Class-Based policing shaping and header-compression
- configure LFI
Importance
The CCIP remote labs subscription is highly recommended to the students who already possess basic internetworking knowledge and skills and would like to improve their skills with advanced configuration and troubleshooting, particularly in the service provider-related technologies. The exercises contain advanced network configurations to give you experience in configuring and verifying the network technologies covered in the BSCI, BGP, MPLS and QOS courses.
Target Audience
The lab exercises are targeted at CCIP candidates as well as at pre- and post-sales technical support engineers who have to design, implement and troubleshoot their internetworks for advanced operation related to service provider as well as enterprise environments.
Prerequisite Knowledge
To successfully complete this set of exercises, you need advanced internetworking knowledge and skills in configuring and troubleshooting Cisco IOS. The prerequisite knowledge is best gained by attending the Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI), Configuring BGP on Cisco Routers (BGP), Implementing Cisco MPLS (MPLS) and Implementing Cisco Quality of Service (QOS) courses.