What You'll Learn

• Plan and document the configuration and verification of routing protocols and their optimization in enterprise networks
• Technologies, components, and metrics of EIGRP used to implement and verify EIGRP routing in diverse, large-scale internetworks based on requirements
• Identify, analyze, and match OSPF multiarea routing functions and benefits for routing efficiencies in network operations in order to implement and verify OSPF routing in a complex enterprise network
• Implement and verify a redistribution solution in a multiprotocol network that uses Cisco IOS features to control path selection and provides a loop-free topology
• Evaluate common network performance issues, and identify the tools needed to provide Layer 3 path control using Cisco IOS features
• Implement and verify a Layer 3 solution using BGP to connect an enterprise network to a service provider

Who Needs to Attend

• Network engineers, technical support personnel, and help desk technicians
• Anyone involved in implementing, configuring, and verifying routing protocols in enterprise networks

Pre-requisites

• CCNA certification
• Familiarity with internetworking technologies and the ability to perform basic router configuration
• Experience installing, operating, and maintaining Cisco routers and switches in an enterprise environment
• Knowledge of IP, including the ability to perform IP subnetting on non-octal boundaries, configure IP standard and extended access lists, operate and configure distance vector routing protocol, configure serial interface, and interpret a Cisco routing table

Course Outline

1. Planning Routing Services to Requirements

• Assessing Complex Enterprise Network Requirements
  • Cisco hierarchical network model
  • Cisco Enterprise Architecture
  • Traffic conditions in a converged network
  • Cisco SONA framework
  • Routing and routing protocols
• Common Maintenance Processes and Procedures
  • Typical implementation plan information and tasks
  • Implementation documentation

2. Implementing an EIGRP-Based Solution

• Planning 
  • Four key technologies employed by EIGRP
  • How EIGRP operates
  • 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
• Implementing and Verifying Basic EIGRP for the Enterprise LAN Architecture
  • 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
  • Compare manual route summarization to default automatic route summarization
  • Configure and verify route summarization
• Configuring and Verifying EIGRP for the Enterprise WAN Architecture
  • Effect on EIGRP operations
    • Circuit emulation link such as Metro Ethernet or EoMPLS
    • MPLS VPNs
    • Frame Relay
  • Physical and Logical multipoint interfaces
    • 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
  • Features of load balancing across equal paths
  • Configure and verify EIGRP load balancing across unequal cost paths
  • Configure EIGRP bandwidth use across WAN links
• Implementing and Verifying EIGRP Authentication
  • Evaluate router authentication
  • Configure MD5 authentication
  • Troubleshoot MD5 authentication
• Advanced EIGRP Features in an Enterprise Network
  • Factors affecting scalability in large internetworks
  • Using queries to update routing tables when a route is lost and there is no successor
  • Mark the spokes of a large network as stubs to reduce EIGRP queries and improve network scaling
  • Why stuck-in-active (SIA) connections occur
  • Minimize active routes
  • Illustrate how graceful shutdown prevents loss of packets when routers go down

3. Implementing a Scalable Multiarea Network OSPF-Based Solution

• Planning
  • Link-state routing protocols
  • Two-tier hierarchy structure
  • How link-state routing protocols establish neighbor adjacencies
  • How OSPF calculates the best path to each destination network
  • How link-state updates (LSUs) verify active links
  • Different OSPF area types
  • Create a typical implementation plan and documentation package for an OSPF-based solution
• How OSPF Packet Processes Work
  • Five OSPF packet types
  • How OSPF neighbor adjacencies are established
  • Exchanging and synchronizing link-state databases (LSDBs) or topology tables
  • Maintaining a database of the most recent link-state sequence numbers
  • Verifying that OSPF packets are flowing properly between two routers
• Improving Routing Performance in a Complex Enterprise Network
  • OSPF network types
  • Determine adjacency behavior
    • Point-to-point links
    • Broadcast networks
    • Metro Ethernet and EoMPLS networks
    • MPLS networks
  • Select a DR and BDR
  • Implement OSPF over Frame Relay
    • Frame Relay NBMA
    • Point-to-point Frame Relay network
    • Point-to-multipoint Frame Relay network
  • Use subinterfaces in OSPF over Frame Relay
• Configuring and Verifying OSPF Routing
  • 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 and verify basic multiarea OSPF operations
  • Neighbor relationship
  • OSPF router types
  • LSAs defined by OSPF
  • Interpret the OSPF LSDB and routing table
  • Controlling routing advertisements using the passive-interface command
  • Effects of a non-contiguous backbone or area that does not connect to area 0 and how OSPF virtual links are used to address these issues
  • Configure and verify an OSPF virtual link
  • Change the cost metric from default values
• Configuring and Verifying OSPF Route Summarization
  • Functions of inter-area route summarization and external route summarization
  • Configure route summarization in OSPF
  • Benefits of a default route in OSPF
  • Configure a default route injection into OSPF
• Configuring and Verifying OSPF Special Area Types
  • OSPF area types
  • Configure OSPF stub areas and totally stubby areas
  • Interpret routing tables for stub areas and totally stubby areas
  • Configure OSPF NSSAs
  • Verify all types of OSPF stub areas
• Configuring and Verifying OSPF Authentication
  • Distinguish between the two types of authentication used in OSPF
  • Configure and troubleshoot simple password authentication
  • Configure and troubleshoot MD5 authentication

4. Implement an IPv4-Based Redistribution Solution

• Assessing Network Routing Performance and Security Issues
  • Common network performance issues
  • How distribution lists, prefix lists, and route maps work and how they control routing updates
  • Use route maps to filter routes
  • Suppress routing updates using passive interfaces
• Operating a Network Using Multiple IP Routing Protocols
  • The need to use multiple IP routing protocols
  • Route redistribution
  • Configure dynamic routing protocol updates for passive interfaces and distribute lists
  • Use of Policy routing and route maps
  • Seed metrics used by various routing protocols
  • Process for points of distribution in a network and identifying possible routing loops
  • Create a distribution and loop map for a given network
• Configuring and Verifying Route Redistribution
  • Procedures necessary to configure route redistribution into RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF
  • Advantages of administrative distance in terms of routing protocols
  • Modify administrative distance on the router globally and specifically
  • Assess the impact of administrative distance changes on routing tables
  • Implement route maps with route redistribution to prevent routing loops
    Verify route redistribution operations

5. Implementing Path Control

• Assessing Path Control Network Performance Issues
  • Use filters to determine path selection
  • Use PBR to determine path selection
  • Configure and verify PBR
• Additional Path Control Sessions via E-Learning
  • 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

6. Connection of an Enterprise Network to an ISP Network

• Planning the Enterprise-to-ISP Connection
  • Connectivity requirement between an enterprise network and an ISP
  • Exchanging routing information across an ISP
    • Static routes
    • Common IGPs
    • MPLS VPNs
    • Circuit Emulation
    • BGP
  • Types of enterprise-to-ISP connections and their effect on the selection of an exchange method
    • Single-homed
    • Dual-homed
    • Multihomed
    • Dual-multihomed
• Advantages of Using BGP
  • Connectivity between an enterprise network and an ISP that requires the use of BGP
  • Issues when an enterprise connects to the Internet through multiple ISPs
  • BGP multihoming options
  • How BGP routes between autonomous systems
  • How BGP uses path-vector functionality
  • BGP compared to other distance vector routing protocol and database types
• Comparing the Functions and Uses of EBGP and IBGP
  • Terminology
  • Establishing external and internal BGP (EBGP) neighbor relationships
  • Use of metrics
• Configuring and Verifying Basic BGP Operations
  • Initiate basic BGP configuration
  • Activate a BGP session for external and internal neighboring routers
  • Administratively shut down and re-enable a BGP neighbor
  • Factors and options to correctly configure BGP
  • 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
• Using the BGP Attributes and Path Selection Process
  • BGP attributes that affect outbound EBGP path selection
  • Criteria for selecting a BGP path
  • Configure the AS path attribute to affect outbound EBGP path selection
  • Configure local preference attribute to affect outbound path selection
  • Configure the weight attribute to affect outbound EBGP path selection
  • Use route maps to set attributes to control outbound EBGP path selection
    • AS Path prepending
    • Local preference
    • Weight
  • Configure the MED attribute to effect inbound EBGP path selection
  • Configure AS path attribute (AS prepending) to affect inbound EBGP path selection
  • Document implementation, operations, and maintenance
• IPv6 and Routing for Branch Offices and Remote Workers
  • Implementing IPv6
  • Implementing Routing Facilities for Branch Offices and Mobile Workers
  • Analyzing Mobile Workers Designs and Planning for Mobile Workers Installations
  • Directed Demo: Implement Special Facilities for Mobile Workers