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. > >> _______________________________________________ > >> For more information regarding industry leading CCIE Lab training, > please > >> visit www.ipexpert.com > > > > > > > > -- > > Bryan Bartik > > CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP > > Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc. > > URL: http://www.IPexpert.com > > > -- Bryan Bartik CCIE #23707 (R&S), CCNP Sr. Support Engineer - IPexpert, Inc. URL: http://www.IPexpert.com
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