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ROUTE - Epic Fail (#1?)

I took the ROUTE test today and failed like I usually do. That makes me 3-4 on these P-level tests if you’re scoring at home. Don’t worry, though. I’m not giving up. 🙂 In atypical fashion, I must say that the ROUTE test was a good test. Let

ROUTE Notes - Controlling BGP

Corrections, please. I skipped a bunch of BGP intro stuff to get to the juicy center. I’ll see if I can come back later and finish the other parts for posterity. Study Notes * Is BGP route selection a controversial subject? Yes. If you ask 1000 network guys the best

ROUTE Notes - Branch Office Routing

Corrigeme, por favor. Study Notes * What do IPSec tunnels give you when a branch office is on a broadband connection? Privacy through encryption Authentication of the remote peer through ISAKMP Delivery of private data over the public Internet * What do you need to configure to get your branch router talking

ROUTE Notes - Implementing IPv6 in an IPv4 Network

Study Questions * Your boss says that ever host in the network needs to be converted over to IPv6 by the end of the day. Which of multipoint tunnels, point-to-point tunnels, or native IPv6 would be the most appropriate to use to help with that conversion? Native IPv6 * The engineering department

ROUTE Notes - Routing IPv6

Study Questions * Why would anyone develop a version of RIP that supports IPv6? I have no idea. Boredom, maybe. Whatever the case, it works just like RIPv2, which is pretty scary. * In EIGRP for IPv4, there are several requirements for two routers to neighbor up. Which of those is not

ROUTE Notes - Intro to IPv6

Study Notes * Exactly how big is an IPv6 address? It’s 128 bits long. * This shouldn’t be on the test, but how many unique addresses is that? That’s 2^128 or a “3” with 38 zeros after it. That’s also 2^95 addresses for each person on

ROUTE Notes - PBR and IP SLA

Feel free to correct. Study Questions * What’s the most primitive way to get traffic destined to a single host to use a different path than your dynamic IGP dictates? Use a static route. * What’s the most primitive way to get traffic sourced from a single host to use