Archive for the ‘Cisco’ category

EIGRPv6/OSPFv3 Redistribution

March 26th, 2010

Challenge Lab #2 – EIGRPv6/OSPFv3 Redistribution

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Overview:

Coke and Pepsi are finally merging after so many decades once people realized that the separation in drinks was stupid, they taste exactly the same. Anyway, Coke utilizes an EIGRP based IPv6 network while Pepsi chose to go with IPv6 and OSPF because well, the coin landed on tails. You have been tasked with establishing connectivity between these two corporations. Luckily, we found a router in a janitor’s closet that randomly happened to be connecting the two companies, so that made it easy.
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IPv6 to IPv6 – Tunneling through IPv4

March 15th, 2009

Challenge Lab #3 – IPv6 to IPv6 – Tunneling through IPv4

(Note: Please complete Challenge Lab #2 – EIGRPv6 / OSPFv3 Redistribution prior to this if you are not already familiar with IPv6 terms and concepts.)

Overview:

A small business owner in your local town has contacted your consulting company request someone to change them to an entirely IPv6 network. Although you know that it is kind of pointless for a small shop to be spending money on the transition at this time, you are more than willing to let them write you as many checks as they want. One of the issues you will be facing is how to maintain connectivity between their two locations when you only have access to the IPv4 internet.
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Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN

December 30th, 2008

Challenge Lab #1 – MPLS VPN

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Overview:

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A customer at XYZ corporation has just asked you, an engineer at HyperGlobalMegaCorp Regional ISP, to set him up a tunneled VPN connection between two of their sites. The problem is that somehow both XYZ and ABC corporations use the same exact IP addressing scheme, so they need to somehow accommodate that. You’ve been tasked with researching and implementing MPLS VPNs and VRF in order to accommodate both their security and IP addressing needs.
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