Excellent. I just completed it too recently, it was quite a challenge, even
after going through volume 1 and reading tons of books :)

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Con Spathas <[email protected]>wrote:

> Gday Bryan,
>
> The penny has dropped. What I failed to do was break the R8<->R9
> connection and see what happens!
> Shortest AS-Path was fooling me that things were okay. Thanks for the
> clarification.
>
> On a side note - this was probably one of the best vendor labs I've
> done so far.
> Looking forward to getting stuck into Labs 2 through 5 in Vol 2.
>
> Cheers,
> Con.
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 9:53 PM, Bryan Bartik<[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hello Con,
> >
> > 1&2. Prepeding appends the AS before your own AS. In this case, some
> routes
> > come from AS 125, so if you prepend 1 to that the AS path would 678 1 125
> > instead of 678 125 1.
> >
> > 3. Hmmm....looks like an oversight! Should be adding community 1:1.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any other questions.
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Con Spathas <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Gday All,
> >>
> >> So the requirement is that we need to configure eBGP between R6 (vrf
> >> VPNA) and BB_CE1 and ultimately get some comms between VPNA and VPNB.
> >> No dramas there.
> >> The bit that's confusing me is the config the Proctor Guide performs
> >> on R1 to set the origin to EGP AS1 as it redistributes VPNB OSPF
> >> routes into BGP.
> >>
> >> A couple of questions I'm hoping someone can shed some light on please:
> >>
> >> 1. Why is it needed? Performing prepend (AS 1) at R6 for all
> >> advertisements outbound to BB_CE1 seems to do the trick.
> >> 2. If it is needed - then can someone please explain why and also why
> >> the config is only needed on R1 and not R8 as well?
> >> 3. The requirement was that BB_CE1 also expects the routes to carry
> >> community 1:1 - whilst I set this on my route-map on R6 towards BB_CE1
> >> - there's nothing in the Proctor Guide. I take it this is just an
> >> oversight?
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Con.
> >> _______________________________________________
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> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Bryan Bartik
> > CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP
> > Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc.
> > URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
> >
>



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