AutoQoS

February 10th,2012    by Nicholas

AutoQoS is an extremely useful feature that can take a lot of the mystery out of building a QoS policy. Unfortunately, there are several restrictions on this feature that you need to be aware of.

First, it is only available on point-to-point links between routers. This includes point-to-point subinterfaces on ATM and Frame Relay PVCs, as shown in the example. The feature is also available on PPP and HDLC Serial connections. It cannot be used on any multiple access media, including Ethernets, or multipoint subinterfaces.

Second, it can't be used with any virtual templates or frame map statements. It cannot be used with either Frame Relay or ATM SVCs.

Third, it must be enabled on both ends of each link or PVC. This doesn't necessarily mean that both routers must run the same IOS version, however, as long as the AutoQoS feature is available on both routers.

Fourth, you should disable any other service policies or access-groups on the router, even if they are associated with different interfaces.

And finally, you must ensure that CEF is enabled for this feature to work.

AutoQoS for VoIP was introduced in IOS Version 12.2(15)T. This command is actually a macro that adds a series of commands to your router's configuration. You can use the show auto qos command to see exactly what it has added:

Router1#show auto qos
 !
 policy-map AutoQoS-Policy-UnTrust
  class AutoQoS-VoIP-RTP-UnTrust
   priority percent 70
   set dscp ef
  class AutoQoS-VoIP-Control-UnTrust
   bandwidth percent 5
   set dscp af31
  class AutoQoS-VoIP-Remark
   set dscp default
  class class-default
   fair-queue
 !
 ip access-list extended AutoQoS-VoIP-RTCP
  permit udp any any range 16384 32767
 !
 ip access-list extended AutoQoS-VoIP-Control
  permit tcp any any eq 1720
  permit tcp any any range 11000 11999
  permit udp any any eq 2427
  permit tcp any any eq 2428
  permit tcp any any range 2000 2002
  permit udp any any eq 1719
  permit udp any any eq 5060
 !
 rmon event 33333 log trap AutoQoS description "AutoQoS SNMP traps for Voice Drops" owner AutoQoS
 rmon alarm 33333 cbQosCMDropBitRate.1169.1171 30 absolute rising-threshold 1 33333 falling-threshold 0 owner AutoQoS

Serial0/0.1: DLCI 904 -
 !
 interface Serial0/0
  frame-relay traffic-shaping
 !
 interface Serial0/0.1 point-to-point
  frame-relay interface-dlci 904
   class AutoQoS-FR-Se0/0-904
 !
 map-class frame-relay AutoQoS-FR-Se0/0-904
  frame-relay cir 1544000
  frame-relay bc 15440
  frame-relay be 0
  frame-relay mincir 1544000
  service-policy output AutoQoS-Policy-UnTrust
Router1#

Clearly, this little macro has done a lot of work, and in fact this command output doesn't show the class-maps that were created at the same time! Let's examine what it did. First, it created a policy-map called AutoQoS-Policy-UnTrust, which allocates up to 70% of the bandwidth on this link to voice traffic and another 5% to VoIP control packets. It also sets the DSCP values for these traffic streams, overriding whatever values were previously in the packets. All other traffic is configured to use weighted fair-queuing (WFQ).

Then, skipping over the access-lists, whose purpose is fairly clear, the macro has created an RMON rule that will automatically send an SNMP trap every time the router is forced to drop a voice packet. You can then use these trap logs to determine if the queuing parameters are appropriate. If you find that you are dropping a lot of packets, then you may need to increase your bandwidth to reduce congestion.

And finally, it has implemented Frame Relay Traffic Shaping to ensure that the router doesn't attempt to overrun the CIR for the PVC. This is a critical consideration because, by default, the router will assume that it can transmit at wire speed on each PVC individually. So if you have several PVCs on a single physical circuit, it will allow any of them to burst to the full bandwidth capacity of the interface, possibly over-running the CIR of the PVC. As a result, even with the best queuing strategy on the router, you could find yourself dropping packets in the frame cloud.

The AutoQoS for the Enterprise feature was introduced in IOS Version 12.3(7)T. It classifies traffic into 10 categories, which are listed in Table 11-2. Note that if the discovery feature doesn't see any traffic of a particular type, then AutoQoS will not create a corresponding class on the router.

Table 11-2. AutoQos traffic classes

Class Name

DSCP

Description

IP Routing CS6 Routing protocol and ICMP traffic
Interactive Voice EF RTP Voice traffic
Interactive Video AF41 RTP Video traffic
Streaming Video CS4 Various streaming audio and video protocols, such as CU-SeeMe, RealAudio, and Netshow
Telephony Signaling CS3 RTP and H.323
Transactional/Interactive AF21 Database protocols, such as SAP, SQLNet, and SQLServer, as well as interactive protocols, including Citrix, Telnet, Notes, SSH, and X11
Network Management CS2 Primarily SNMP
Bulk Data AF11 Batch file transfer protocols such as FTP, Exchange, POP3, SMTP, NNTP, and network printing
Scavenger CS1 Various peer-to-peer and entertainment protocols, including Napster, Fasttrack, and Gnutella; this group is given a worse than best-efforts priority
Best Effort 0 Various miscellaneous protocols, including HTTP, NFS, SunRPC, NTP, and gopher, as well as any unidentified traffic

We enabled auto discovery QoS on both ends of a Frame-Relay PVC, ran some traffic through the link and then looked at the output of the show auto discovery qos command to see what the router suggested for a QoS policy:

Router1#show auto discovery qos
Serial0/0.1
 AutoQoS Discovery enabled for applications
 Discovery up time: 3 minutes, 41 seconds
 AutoQoS Class information:
 Class Voice:
  No data found.
 Class Interactive Video:
  No data found.
 Class Signaling:
  No data found.
 Class Streaming Video:
  No data found.
 Class Transactional:
  Recommended Minimum Bandwidth: 1 Kbps/<1% (AverageRate)
  Detected applications and data:
  Application/       AverageRate        PeakRate           Total
  Protocol           (kbps/%)           (kbps/%)           (bytes)
  -----------        -----------        --------           ------------
  telnet             1/<1               32/2               53404
 Class Bulk:
  No data found.
 Class Scavenger:
  No data found.
 Class Management:
  Recommended Minimum Bandwidth: 1 Kbps/<1% (AverageRate)
  Detected applications and data:
  Application/       AverageRate        PeakRate           Total
  Protocol           (kbps/%)           (kbps/%)           (bytes)
  -----------        -----------        --------           ------------
  snmp               1/<1               11/<1              50245
 Class Routing:
  Recommended Minimum Bandwidth: 0 Kbps/0% (AverageRate)
  Detected applications and data:
  Application/       AverageRate        PeakRate           Total
  Protocol           (kbps/%)           (kbps/%)           (bytes)
  -----------        -----------        --------           ------------
  icmp               0/0                8/<1               11432
  eigrp              0/0                0/0                6016
 Class Best Effort:
  Current Bandwidth Estimation: 3 Kbps/<1% (AverageRate)
  Detected applications and data:
  Application/       AverageRate        PeakRate           Total
  Protocol           (kbps/%)           (kbps/%)           (bytes)
  -----------        -----------        --------           ------------
  http               3/<1               33/2               84777
  unknowns           0/0                0/0                184

Suggested AutoQoS Policy for the current uptime:
 !
 class-map match-any AutoQoS-Transactional-Se0/0.1
  match protocol telnet
 !
 class-map match-any AutoQoS-Management-Se0/0.1
  match protocol snmp
 !
 policy-map AutoQoS-Policy-Se0/0.1
  class AutoQoS-Transactional-Se0/0.1
   bandwidth remaining percent 1
   random-detect dscp-based
   set dscp af21
  class AutoQoS-Management-Se0/0.1
   bandwidth remaining percent 1
   set dscp cs2
  class class-default
   fair-queue
Router1#

As you can see, we didn't let the discovery phase run for very long, and consequently did not discovery very many types of traffic. The router saw no traffic in the Voice, Interactive Video, Telephony Signaling, Streaming Video, Bulk, or Scavenger classes. But it did see some TELNET traffic in the Transactional class, some SNMP traffic in the Network Management class, as well as some Routing Protocol and Best Efforts traffic. Note that the command output includes average and peak rate traffic statistics, which the router will use to help determine queuing parameters:

Class Best Effort:
  Current Bandwidth Estimation: 3 Kbps/<1% (AverageRate)
  Detected applications and data:
  Application/       AverageRate        PeakRate           Total
  Protocol           (kbps/%)           (kbps/%)           (bytes)
  -----------        -----------        --------           ------------
  http               3/<1               33/2               84777
  unknowns           0/0                0/0                184

The output then ends with a suggestion for a QoS policy-map to be applied to this interface. This output shows that the AutoQoS feature uses the NBAR match command to identify protocols. NBAR is the basis of AutoQoS.

Once we are satisfied that this is a good QoS policy, we enable it by using the auto qos command:

Router1(config)#interface Serial0/0.1 point-to-point
Router1(config-subif)#frame-relay interface-dlci 904
Router1(config-fr-dlci)#auto qos
%Creating new map-class.
Router1(config-fr-dlci)#no auto discovery qos
Router1(config-fr-dlci)#exit
Router1(config-subif)#exit
It is critical to enable AutoQoS before disabling the discovery feature. Otherwise, the router will lose all of the traffic information that it has learned.

If you want to see the new configuration commands that AutoQoS has added to your router, use the show auto qos command:

Router1#show auto qos
 !
 policy-map AutoQoS-Policy-Se0/0.1
  class AutoQoS-Transactional-Se0/0.1
   bandwidth remaining percent 1
   random-detect dscp-based
   set dscp af21
  class AutoQoS-Routing-Se0/0.1
   bandwidth remaining percent 1
   set dscp cs6
  class class-default
   fair-queue
 !
 policy-map AutoQoS-Policy-Se0/0.1-Parent
  class class-default
   shape average 1544000
   service-policy AutoQoS-Policy-Se0/0.1
 !
 class-map match-any AutoQoS-Transactional-Se0/0.1
  match protocol telnet
 !
 class-map match-any AutoQoS-Routing-Se0/0.1
  match protocol icmp
  match protocol eigrp
  match protocol rip

Serial0/0.1: DLCI 904 -
 !
 interface Serial0/0.1 point-to-point
  frame-relay interface-dlci 904
   class AutoQoS-FR-Se0/0-904
 !
 map-class frame-relay AutoQoS-FR-Se0/0-904
  frame-relay cir 1544000
  frame-relay bc 15440
  frame-relay be 0
  frame-relay mincir 1544000
  service-policy output AutoQoS-Policy-Se0/0.1-Parent
Router1#

Note that the actual policy map does not exactly match the version that we saw earlier during the data collection phase. The biggest difference is that the router saw some additional RIP traffic in the meantime and added this protocol to the class called AutoQoS-Routing-Se0/0.1. It has also created a Frame Relay map class that includes traffic shaping parameters for the PVC.

Because AutoQoS adds so many different commands to the router configuration, if you want to disable AutoQoS, it is not sufficient to just remove the auto qos command. You will need to remove all of the other commands separately. In fact, you should be careful about removing this command because if you do so, the show auto qos command will no longer function, making it much more difficult to figure out what commands are actually related to this feature. To make matters worse, once you have removed the auto qos command, you can't even put it back because the router needs to repeat the discovery phase first!

If you want to remove this feature after you have enabled it, we recommend capturing the output of the show auto qos command and using a text editor to create a configuration script that selectively eliminates all of the associated commands.

AutoQoS for the Enterprise can be a useful way of generating a detailed queuing strategy for your network. We do urge some caution in using this feature, however. In our experience, the discovery option can be unreliable. In particular, if you are using NBAR or have access-groups enabled on the router, this can interfere with the data collection. Furthermore, we have seen questionable results in the output that went away after disabling and re-enabling the discovery option.

We strongly recommend looking very closely at the recommendations made by this command before implementing them.

CCIE RS Education - To get a Earth Class IT Certification

February 1st,2012    by Nicholas

CCIE RS education is meant for people highly possible networking experts and is a wide-ranging finding out program. It is imagined of to quicken your competency to an qualified degree, even when offering you the capabilities and coaching to cross this rigorous test. CCIE RS Training may be the simplest way to obtain the Cisco internetwork Knowledgeable Certification.  It is also the very best amount of certification, that's furnished by Cisco Techniques. IT professionals managing gigantic networks and expert in making use of Cisco items will need to go an extensive examination to receive this certification.

The CCIE RS coaching is performed at CCIE coaching colleges, which has tutors, lecturers, and boot camps. Inside the CCIE, there are 6 tracks, particularly, Storage Networking, Voice and Wireless, Routing & Switching, Service Provider, and Security. This examination is considered to be pretty tough and excellent one to clear, providing you with technical experience and dedication. This also makes you a member of an exclusive group of pros, makes your resume look grand, and will increase your credibility.

Moving forward in career certainly is the ambition of most IT gurus. CCIE RS coaching will provide the platform to supply a bonus in the job market.  Once you begin in search of higher opportunities in or exterior your company, the CCIE certification will provide help to attain your objective simply on this aggressive entire world.

You'll have many reasons for taking CCIE RS coaching; getting excessive salary could possibly be considered one of them. Getting this certification will not be a simple work; it takes years, sometimes, to clear the exams. It takes eighteen months and a whole bunch of dollars to clear this test, that's why there's large marketplace for such licensed pros. The plus side to it really is that, with such limited certified gurus and high demand for them, the salaries presented are very high.

After receiving the CCIE RS coaching, you might be considered of to be an knowledgeable in the networking field. Subsequently, if a tough scenario arises, you might be at all times called in to settle the problem. When you will have this certification, you may be acknowledged worldwide for having high qualification in the networking and technology industry.

It can be essential to understand the general means of CCIE RS coaching examination, so that you will understand the form of instruction which can be needed. This examination consists of two principal elements, the written, and the lab test. The written half is of two hours size containing a number of-choice question. You'll be able to sit for the lab examination only if you are successful in the written exam.  The lab examination is an eight-hour one that can take a look at your capacity to put collectively networking and software equipment and your troubleshooting ability.  Three years are furnished for passing the lab examination, after which you will be needing to reappear for the written exam before continuing for the lab exam again.

A lot of the candidates showing for the CCIE RS schooling examination do not go on the first attempt. Nonetheless, there is fairly a high price of success inside the second attempt. To enhance the probabilities of success in this examination, you should research the subjects that are examination specific. One essential issue to be kept in thoughts is that, after receiving this certificate, you should recertify each two years.

Consider researching concerning the expertise in every area as listed inside of the Cisco blueprint. Its recommended to have not less than four hundred hours of lab follow by using a simulated gear as a tactic to succeed within just the CCIE security lab exam. Dedicate a part of your day in mastering every topic. You will discover various study materials obtainable available in the market for better understanding of the subjects talked about in the blueprint of Cisco. They assist you to in making ready yourself by way of the aid of structured software. You'll be able to spend money on a good coaching plan, which lets you improve your degree of expertise.

You can go for online teaching packages from reputed corporations, which provide observe assessments and different helpful services to enhance your skills. CCIE safety can be utilized as a ladder in the direction of success. It is accepted as a recognized certification application inside of the networking industry worldwide. A CCIE in security will open the gateway towards a shiny career.

CCIE RS Education - To get a Earth Class IT Certification

January 11th,2012    by Nicholas

CCIE RS education is meant for people highly possible networking experts and is a wide-ranging finding out program. It is imagined of to quicken your competency to an qualified degree, even when offering you the capabilities and coaching to cross this rigorous test. CCIE RS Training may be the simplest way to obtain the Cisco internetwork Knowledgeable Certification. It is also the very best amount of certification, that's furnished by Cisco Techniques. IT professionals managing gigantic networks and expert in making use of Cisco items will need to go an extensive examination to receive this certification.

The CCIE RS coaching is performed at CCIE coaching colleges, which has tutors, lecturers, and boot camps. Inside the CCIE, there are 6 tracks, particularly, Storage Networking, Voice and Wireless, Routing & Switching, Service Provider, and Security. This examination is considered to be pretty tough and excellent one to clear, providing you with technical experience and dedication. This also makes you a member of an exclusive group of pros, makes your resume look grand, and will increase your credibility.

Moving forward in career certainly is the ambition of most IT gurus. CCIE RS coaching will provide the platform to supply a bonus in the job market. Once you begin in search of higher opportunities in or exterior your company, the CCIE certification will provide help to attain your objective simply on this aggressive entire world.

You'll have many reasons for taking CCIE RS coaching; getting excessive salary could possibly be considered one of them. Getting this certification will not be a simple work; it takes years, sometimes, to clear the exams. It takes eighteen months and a whole bunch of dollars to clear this test, that's why there's large marketplace for such licensed pros. The plus side to it really is that, with such limited certified gurus and high demand for them, the salaries presented are very high.

After receiving the CCIE RS coaching, you might be considered of to be an knowledgeable in the networking field. Subsequently, if a tough scenario arises, you might be at all times called in to settle the problem. When you will have this certification, you may be acknowledged worldwide for having high qualification in the networking and technology industry.

It can be essential to understand the general means of CCIE RS coaching examination, so that you will understand the form of instruction which can be needed. This examination consists of two principal elements, the written, and the lab test. The written half is of two hours size containing a number of-choice question. You'll be able to sit for the lab examination only if you are successful in the written exam. The lab examination is an eight-hour one that can take a look at your capacity to put collectively networking and software equipment and your troubleshooting ability. Three years are furnished for passing the lab examination, after which you will be needing to reappear for the written exam before continuing for the lab exam again.

A lot of the candidates showing for the CCIE RS schooling examination do not go on the first attempt. Nonetheless, there is fairly a high price of success inside the second attempt. To enhance the probabilities of success in this examination, you should research the subjects that are examination specific. One essential issue to be kept in thoughts is that, after receiving this certificate, you should recertify each two years.

Consider researching concerning the expertise in every area as listed inside of the Cisco blueprint. Its recommended to have not less than four hundred hours of lab follow by using a simulated gear as a tactic to succeed within just the CCIE security lab exam. Dedicate a part of your day in mastering every topic. You will discover various study materials obtainable available in the market for better understanding of the subjects talked about in the blueprint of Cisco. They assist you to in making ready yourself by way of the aid of structured software. You'll be able to spend money on a good coaching plan, which lets you improve your degree of expertise.

You can go for online teaching packages from reputed corporations, which provide observe assessments and different helpful services to enhance your skills. CCIE safety can be utilized as a ladder in the direction of success. It is accepted as a recognized certification application inside of the networking industry worldwide. A CCIE in Security will open the gateway towards a shiny career.

CCIE Lab Examination - Some Beneficial Ideas and Steering

January 10th,2012    by Nicholas

CCIE Lab Examination - Some Beneficial Ideas and Steering

Using CCIE, experts have an opportunity to determine on their own within the field of networking. Just a few thousand persons are believed to apparent the CCIE exam. CCIE labs are thought of to impart substantial phase of training environment, which acts for a major profit for candidates.

CCIE examination entails two assessments, which might be a CCIE published investigate as well as a CCIE lab exam. In order to endeavor the lab exam, you must distinct the composed examination. For everybody who is not in a very place to obvious the created examination the first time, you really should watch to get a hundred and eighty days for retaking it. Right after clearing the authored take a look at, it truly is optimum to help make an test for your CCIE lab examination within just eighteen months. It you're incapable to apparent the lab examination, then you definitely have to re-try inside of 12 months along with a look at to maintain the written examination end result legitimate.

It has a time limit of two hrs and it is carried out in an assortment of have a look at centers the world over. The matters lined inside the created examination depend on the specialization or track you decide on. For support provider, it's possible you'll pick out from categories like Cable, DSL, IP Telephony, Dial, Information materials Networking, Optical, WAN switching, and Metro Ethernet. Every prepared examination is formed around inside the beta form at a worth of $50 USD.

The CCIE lab examination is distinctive in naturel, as it is an eight-hour examination, which exams the facility within the candidate to configure and troubleshoot networking machines. Cisco has substantial degree of kit in its CCIE labs for use inside lab exams. The blue print of the lab examination is obtainable on its site. The lab examination isn't accessible in any respect Pearson VUE or Prometric testing centers.

A regular CCIE R&S lab examination contains a two-hour hassle-taking pictures section by which that you're presented a collection of tickets for preconfigured networks within the CCIE labs. It is advisable to have the ability to identify and resolve the faults. You can proceed towards the configuration part soon after you end the troubleshooting part.

A sound passing score is critical to try a CCIE lab test. Cisco uses the help of proctors to guage the candidates inside the preliminary rounds in its CCIE Lab Exam located worldwide. Factors are awarded when a criterion is met and grading is completed using some computerized tools. The outcomes of a lab examination are mirrored inside of forty eight hours. A move/fail is projected in the end consequence and in case of a fail, the areas where you happen to be lacking behind are talked about so as to put together properly earlier than a re-try.

Cisco stands out within the field of networking by providing a CCIE certification so that you can pursue your education as well as get acknowledged by a reputed organization. The CCIE Labs test can be utilized like a platform to challenge your capability in varied tracks provided by Cisco. Attempting a lab examination requires rigorous training and large sense of understanding. The CCIE labs variety step one to your significant potential career.

CCIE Bootcamp and are the Bootcamp Coaching affords offered by CathaySchool?

January 9th,2012    by Nicholas

It really is aimed to select the professionals within the networking business enterprise for the famend firm supplying options to the specialized departments. Along with a objective to have CCIE certification the applicants really need to move by two obligatory option exams. First of all, the prepared examination is to be handed once which the candidates can sit for your Lab exam. The brief-listed candidates can exclusively have CCIE certification. In an effort to get ready for that CCIE exams, CCIE Bootcamp is made.

CCIE Bootcamps give basically probably the most easy solution of passing out the checks of CCIE. One can find a variety of companies relatively institutes which offer CCIE Bootcamp schooling comparable to Cathay School. Using a watch to improve to get qualified for that bootcamps the institutes quite often current a prerequisite. It can help to spice up the prospect for the applicants to maneuver the CCIE exams in the better way than other folks. This prerequisite known as CCNP status.

The involved price for taking the CCIE Security examination is huge, so most candidates go to get a planning study course to cross it in a single sitting. Some unbiased firms and institutions offer you programs and workshop to these deciding upon CCIE Protection coaching. Nevertheless, most candidates choose to make the most of the instructor-led and on-line workshops, which Cisco provide, being a element of Authorized Finding out Companions system. The instruction methods are offered in addition to the educators are accepted by Cisco.

For your CCIE Protection certification, you will need to sign-up for that authored examination inside your area of specialization. Each of the exams are executed on the Cisco authorized facility, which also accepts expenses for the examination. The price of using a CCIE developed examination is from $80 to $325. The written examination is supervised and carried out on a pc. It's of one or two hrs paper made up of numerous options, drag and drop queries and fill while in the blanks. Apart from white boards and markers for calculations, like a applicant for CCIE Security coaching examination, you are not permitted to carry some other product on the exam hall.

CCIE Bootcamp is accompanied along with a number of techniques to deliver the most effective preparing materials with the pupils. They principally offer you some must-have publications to arrange them for the published CCIE just take a glance at collectively with some world wide web access for your Lab check. Counting on these two classes the CCIE Bootcamps is divided into two sections. The divisions are class development and the Lab simulation. The category building calls for two phases and they're fingers-on coaching and lectured-based mainly courses. Within the category composition the pupils are provided together with the info of Little bit splitting, VLSM and many others. But the lab simulation is crucial element of CCIE Bootcamp. Right here the students are subjected to cope with lots of real-life conditions as well as the troubleshooting skills are checked properly. That is the ultimate phase of CCIE Bootcamps the location the students are nicely-prepared for your Blueprintv4, MPLS and so on. These methodologies support students to troubleshoot any real-life dilemmas and enhance the power to learn the proper choices.

But there can be very few trusted institutes obtainable on hand from the market which provides entire CCIE Bootcamps. Amongst lots of properly-renowned institutes is Cathay Faculty which renders exceedingly perfect organisations just in case of bootcamps for CCIE. They supply bootcamp amenities to rather substantial variety of school college students from many different corners on the planet like Australia, Norway, United kingdom, Sweden, USA and a multitude of further. In accordance considering the research of this institute from 2005, they are sustaining document selection of proportion of passing rate in CCIE test. This file is by itself a sort of assure for them. There are numerous will cause to choose out Cathay College for CCIE Bootcamps. The report quantity of passing fee of just about 90% is among the most captivating purpose of it. Other than it, a particular other outstanding characteristic would be the one-to-one lab coaching which help the college students to filter out each of the doubts relating to any downside with the instructors.

The necessary answers regarding the bootcamp is obtainable on the reliable provider web site that's cathayschool.com. It is a extremely simple website which supplies a couple of placing amenities like on-line Self-Study CCIE Lab Workbooks, one-on-one by going online coaching, Teacher Led training and so forth. All of the facilities in addition to the course durations jointly aided by the money are effectively-described right here such the buyers will want to not need to confront any form of inconvenience with regards to CCIE Bootcamps.

Perfect CCIE Coaching

January 7th,2012    by Nicholas

There is not a need to have an alternative skilled education or program certificates to qualify. The CCIE Security instruction consists of a written examination to qualify and after that the lab test. You might be proposed to get with the least 3-5 yrs of occupation knowledge earlier than wanting this certification.

The examination for that CCIE Security is of two-hour size with many possibilities. This includes hundred questions, which can go over topics equivalent to computer software protocols, working programs, protection technologies, basic safety protocols, and Cisco security programs. The examination supplies are presented on the spot and also you aren't permitted to usher in external reference products.

Network engineers possessing a CCIE certificates are thought of as since the pro while in the group engineering self-control and the masters of CISCO services. The CCIE has introduced revolution inside of the neighborhood field in terms of technically complicated assignments and methods with all the mandatory instruments and methodologies. There exists a application which updates and reorganizes the instruments to supply superior provider. You can get several modes of CCIE Teaching like penned examination preparing and effectivity primarily based lab. This aids to bolster the efficiency and regular of your trade. CISCO has launched this certification policy in 1993 which includes a watch to distinguish the highest industry experts in the relaxation.

In order to be certified, to begin with published examination will have to be handed immediately after which has to cross the lab examination. CISCO in any way moments tries to apply 100 % varied CCIE Training techniques for higher overall performance. There are a number of basic steps for that CCIE certification. The first phase for certification is usually to pass a two hours lasting pc based mostly typically MCQ oriented developed exam. For this examination essential payments need to be accomplished by way of using the net. This examination is associated with examination vouchers and promotional codes. The authenticity on the voucher supplying agency must be very well known to the candidates. The promotional code will be accessed properly and just in case of fraudulent vouchers along with promotional codes should not satisfactory and CISCO won't repay the value. The candidates ought to wait around five days for your penned examination following fee and so they cannot sit for your exact same exam for your following 100 eighty days just in case of recertification.

Using a look at to get certified and eligible for that CCIE Schooling some aspects are to get remembered properly. As a result of passing the prepared examination the candidates use a most of 18 months time for striving the lab test. Should the time period exceeds then the authenticity of the authored examination may be invalid. For your first of all timer used to have CCIE certification the created exam is obtainable within the sort of Beta examination with reductions for sale. From the Beta time period the candidates can sit only the moment for the test. The outcomes will come within six to 8 weeks once the examination is in excess of.

Another stage for that CCIE certification is definitely the Lab exam. The shortlisted candidates of your penned test can solely apply for that fingers-on lab test. Even though there are plenty of published examination centers of CISCO then again Lab exam facilities are minimal. It really is an eight hour fingers-on functional based mostly principally examination whereby the power of troubleshooting and configuring group chiefly centered difficulties and application are checked. For the scheduling of Lab examination the shortlisted candidates for the previously created examination will need to existing the identification quantity in conjunction with passing score and then the date of passing.

The price for Lab examination must be cleared before than ninety days of the scheduled test. With out the fee the reservation can be cancelled. Immediately after passing the Lab exam combined together with the created check the candidates can implement for the CCIE certification. By considering most of the particulars affiliated along with the pointed out measures, it's possible to get the CISCO certification in hand and be qualified for that CCIE Training. CCIE Training

CCIE RS Training, Adjusting Local Preference Values

January 3rd,2012    by Nicholas

When BGP routers within an AS exchange information about a particular route using iBGP, they include the Local Preference value. All of the routers in the AS are then able to use this value to decide how to weight this route versus other BGP routes to the same destination. BGP consults the Local Preference value early in the route selection process, before even the AS Path attribute. So this provides an extremely useful and flexible way of forcing particular routes to use particular paths. Routers do not include Local Preference information when exchanging routes through eBGP connections.
A common example would be if you had two connections to an external network and you wanted to ensure that one was the primary path and the other was a backup. Suppose further that one of the routers in the AS handles the primary path and a second router handles the secondary path. The first example shows how to globally increase the Local Preference values of all routes received by one of these routers:
Router1(config)#router bgp 65500
Router1(config-router)#bgp default local-preference 200
Now all of the external routes that this router handles will have a Local Preference value of 200. If you can reach a particular prefix through more than one path, the other routers in this AS will prefer to use the one with the highest Local Preference value. The default Local Preference is 100.
The following output shows two paths to the network 10.0.0.0/8. This router learned the first route through iBGP from another router. You can see from the LocPrf column that this route has the default Local Preference value of 100:
Router2#show ip bgp
BGP table version is 4, local router ID is 172.18.5.3
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
* i10.0.0.0 172.18.5.2 100 0 65510 65531 i
*> 192.168.2.5 0 65520 65531 i
Router2#
This router learned the second route through eBGP, so it doesn't have a Local Preference value. The router treats any missing Local Preference values as if they had the default value of 100. Note that although BGP has a route selection rule that prefers eBGP routes to iBGP routes, this rule is consulted after the Local Preference is, but for now the Local Preference values are equal. So, all other things being equal, this router prefers to use the more direct route that it learned itself, which is indicated by the ">" character at the beginning of the line.
Now we will change the default Local Preference value on the other router to 200, using the bgp default local-preference command as shown above:
Router2#show ip bgp
BGP table version is 4, local router ID is 172.18.5.3
Status codes: s suppressed, d damped, h history, * valid, > best, i - internal
Origin codes: i - IGP, e - EGP, ? - incomplete

Network Next Hop Metric LocPrf Weight Path
*>i10.0.0.0 172.18.5.2 200 0 65510 65531 i
* 192.168.2.5 0 65520 65531 i
Router2#
As you can see, the Local Preference value has changed to 200 for the iBGP route. So this router now prefers the iBGP route. You can see more detail by specifying the prefix with this command:
Router2#show ip bgp 10.0.0.0/8
BGP routing table entry for 10.0.0.0/8, version 4
Paths: (2 available, best #1, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Advertised to non peer-group peers:
192.168.2.5
65510 65531
172.18.5.2 from 172.18.5.2 (172.18.5.2)
Origin IGP, localpref 200, valid, internal, best
65520 65531
192.168.2.5 from 192.168.2.5 (172.21.1.1)
Origin IGP, localpref 100, valid, external
Router2#
This clearly shows that the router interprets the missing Local Preference value as 100 on this router. If we now change the default value on this router to 75, you can see that it will use this new value instead when the value is missing:
Router2#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router2(config)#router bgp 65500
Router2(config-router)#bgp default local-preference 75
Router2(config-router)#end
Router2#clear ip bgp *

Router2#show ip bgp 10.0.0.0/8
BGP routing table entry for 10.0.0.0/8, version 2
Paths: (2 available, best #2, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Advertised to non peer-group peers:
192.168.2.5
65520 65531
192.168.2.5 from 192.168.2.5 (172.21.1.1)
Origin IGP, localpref 75, valid, external
65510 65531
172.18.5.2 from 172.18.5.2 (172.18.5.2)
Origin IGP, localpref 200, valid, internal, best
Router2#
Notice that we had to clear the BGP peers and wait until they reconnected for this change to take effect. Also notice that, by chance, the router displays the routes in the opposite order. There is no particular significance to this ordering. The route that entered the AS via eBGP on this router (Router2) now has a Local Preference value of 75, while the route that entered via Router1 has a Local Preference of 200, which we configured earlier in this recipe.
You can also use route maps to define different Local Preference values for different individual routes. This gives you a finer granularity, even allowing you to manually balance the load between these links by forcing some routes through one path and the rest through the other path.
The second example shows how to use a route map to adjust Local Preference values:
Router1(config)#ip prefix-list LOW_LP_PREFIXES seq 10 permit 172.22.0.0/16
Router1(config)#route-map LOCALPREF permit 10
Router1(config-route-map)#match ip address prefix-list LOW_LP_PREFIXES
Router1(config-route-map)#set local-preference 50
Router1(config-route-map)#exit
Router1(config)#route-map LOCALPREF permit 20
Router1(config-route-map)#exit
Here we have defined a prefix list that just matches the prefix 172.22.0.0/16. Whenever the route map sees a route that matches this prefix list, it sets the Local Preference value for this route to 50.
We have included an empty clause at the end of the route map, which simply passes all other routes unchanged. Every route map ends with an implicit deny all. So if we didn't include this, the router would simply drop any prefixes that didn't match the first clause.
Then we invoke this rule by using the standard route-map option to the neighbor command:
Router1(config)#router bgp 65500
Router1(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.1.5 remote-as 65510
Router1(config-router)#neighbor 192.168.1.5 route-map LOCALPREF in
Notice that we are applying this route map to all incoming routes received from this specific eBGP peer. Now you can see that this particular route has a local preference value of 50:
Router1#show ip bgp 172.22.0.0/16
BGP routing table entry for 172.22.0.0/16, version 5
Paths: (2 available, best #2, table Default-IP-Routing-Table)
Flag: 0x208
Advertised to non peer-group peers:
192.168.1.5
65510 65531
192.168.1.5 from 192.168.1.5 (172.25.26.55)
Origin IGP, localpref 50, valid, external
65520 65531
172.18.5.3 from 172.18.5.3 (172.18.5.3)
Origin IGP, localpref 75, valid, internal, best
Router1#
Note also that the other iBGP router is still using the Local Preference value of 75 that we configured a moment ago. CCIE RS Training

Because this method used a route map, you can easily construct rules that would change the Local Preference values based on a large variety of different parameters. You could do this to give a higher or lower Local Preference value, based on whether or not the route passes through a particular remote AS:
Router1(config)#ip as-path access-list 17 permit _65531_
Router1(config)#route-map LOCALPREF permit 25
Router1(config-route-map)#match as-path 17
Router1(config-route-map)#set local-preference 75
Router1(config-route-map)#exit

CCIE Certification, Redistributing Static Routes into OSPF

December 30th,2011    by Nicholas

To redistribute static routes into an OSPF process, use the redistribute static configuration command:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#ip route 192.168.10.0 255.255.255.0 172.22.1.4
Router1(config)#ip route 172.24.1.0 255.255.255.0 172.22.1.4
Router1(config)#ip route 10.100.1.0 255.255.255.0 172.22.1.4
Router1(config)#router ospf 55
Router1(config-router)#redistribute static
% Only classful networks will be redistributed
Router1(config-router)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#
As the warning message indicates, OSPF will only redistribute classful network routes by default. In the example, we included three static routes. Of these routes, only 192.168.10.0/24 is classful. If we then look at the routing table on a different router, we can see that the other two routes are not present:
Router5#show ip route ospf
O E2 192.168.10.0/24 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
172.16.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
O 172.16.2.0 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
172.20.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 3 masks
O IA 172.20.10.0/24 [110/1582] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
O IA 172.20.1.0/30 [110/1572] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
O IA 172.20.100.1/32 [110/1573] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
172.22.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
O 172.22.1.0 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
172.25.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 2 masks
O 172.25.25.1/32 [110/11] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
10.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 2 subnets, 2 masks
O IA 10.2.2.2/32 [110/1573] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
O IA 10.1.1.0/30 [110/1572] via 172.25.1.5, 00:02:49, Ethernet0
Router5#
You can ensure that all routes are redistributed, regardless of whether they are classful or not, by including the subnets keyword:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#router ospf 55
Router1(config-router)#redistribute static subnets
Router1(config-router)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#
As you can see, all three static routes are advertised now:
Router5#show ip route ospf
O E2 192.168.10.0/24 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
172.16.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
O 172.16.2.0 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
172.20.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 3 masks
O IA 172.20.10.0/24 [110/1582] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
O IA 172.20.1.0/30 [110/1572] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
O IA 172.20.100.1/32 [110/1573] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
172.22.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
O 172.22.1.0 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
172.25.0.0/16 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 2 masks
O 172.25.25.1/32 [110/11] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
172.24.0.0/24 is subnetted, 1 subnets
O E2 172.24.1.0 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:00:24, Ethernet0
10.0.0.0/8 is variably subnetted, 3 subnets, 3 masks
O IA 10.2.2.2/32 [110/1573] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
O IA 10.1.1.0/30 [110/1572] via 172.25.1.5, 00:04:23, Ethernet0
O E2 10.100.1.0/24 [110/20] via 172.25.1.5, 00:00:24, Ethernet0
Router5#
Another useful thing to notice about this output is the fact that all of these external static routes are marked as type E2, meaning that they are external routes of Type 2. As we discussed in the Introduction to this chapter, any time you distribute a foreign route into OSPF, it is always considered external. This helps OSPF to ensure that it doesn't create any loops through an external network when there are multiple connection points.
When OSPF distributes Type 2 External routes, it doesn't add the internal link cost to the net route cost. OSPF always prefers Type 1 to Type 2 External routes because Type 1 routes do include the internal path cost in the metric. If you want to distribute static routes as Type 1 instead of the default type 2, you need to include the metric-type keyword in the redistribute static command:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#router ospf 55
Router1(config-router)#redistribute static subnets metric 40 metric-type 1
Router1(config-router)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#
In this example, we have also set the default metric for these static routes to a value of 40. Notice that the next hop router now shows the total cost of the path as 60 because it now includes the internal link cost of 20:
Router5#show ip route 192.168.10.0
Routing entry for 192.168.10.0/24
Known via "ospf 87", distance 110, metric 60, type extern 1
Redistributing via ospf 87
Last update from 172.25.1.5 on Ethernet0, 00:01:20 ago
Routing Descriptor Blocks:
* 172.25.1.5, from 172.25.25.1, 00:01:20 ago, via Ethernet0
Route metric is 60, traffic share count is 1
Router5#

CCIE boot camp to organize for this CCIE Exam

December 28th,2011    by Nicholas

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CCIE Security Training - EIGRP Route Summarization

December 23rd,2011    by Nicholas

The ip summary-address eigrp configuration command allows you to configure manual summary addresses on a per-interface basis:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface Serial0/0.2
Router1(config-subif)#ip summary-address eigrp 55 172.25.0.0 255.255.0.0
Router1(config-subif)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#
EIGRP can automatically summarize subnet routes into classful network-level routes. You can enable this command with the auto-summary command or disable it with the no auto-summary configuration command:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#router eigrp 55
Router1(config-router)#no auto-summary
Router1(config-router)#exit
Router1(config)#end
Router1#
A useful new feature allows you to configure a leak-map so that the router will advertise the summary route, as well as some subset of the summarized addresses:
Router9# configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router9(config)#ip prefix-list 10.5.5/24 permit 10.5.5.0/24
Router9(config)#route-map LEAK10-5-5 permit 10
Router9(config-route-map)#match ip address prefix-list 10.5.5/24
Router9(config-route-map)#exit
Router9(config)#interface Serial0/0
Router9(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 55 10.5.0.0 255.255.0.0 leak-map LEAK10-5-5
Router9(config-if)#exit
Router9(config)#end
Router9#
Summarization is one of the most powerful features of EIGRP, and one of the most frequently overlooked methods for improving network efficiency. Unlike RIP, which summarizes along classful network boundaries, EIGRP uses CIDR, allowing you to summarize at any bit in the address, as well as allowing supernets. Conversely, EIGRP allows you to summarize at any router in the network. This means that with EIGRP, you can have multiple hierarchical levels of address summarization, which can greatly improve the maximum size and efficiency of a large network, but only if it is designed properly to allow it.
The auto-summary command was enabled by default until IOS version 12.2(8)T, when it started to be disabled by default.

You can see all of the summarization information, including which interfaces will send out summary addresses, using the show ip protocols command:
Router1#show ip protocols
Routing Protocol is "eigrp 55"
Outgoing update filter list for all interfaces is not set
Redistributed static filtered by 7
Incoming update filter list for all interfaces is not set
Default networks flagged in outgoing updates
Default networks accepted from incoming updates
EIGRP metric weight K1=1, K2=0, K3=1, K4=0, K5=0
EIGRP maximum hopcount 100
EIGRP maximum metric variance 1
Redistributing: static, eigrp 55
Automatic network summarization is not in effect
Address Summarization:
172.25.0.0/16 for Serial0/0.2
Summarizing with metric 28160
Maximum path: 4
Routing for Networks:
10.0.0.0
172.22.0.0
172.25.0.0
Routing Information Sources:
Gateway Distance Last Update
10.1.1.1 90 1d23h
172.25.1.7 90 00:00:57
172.25.2.2 90 00:00:57
172.22.1.4 90 00:00:57
Distance: internal 90 external 170
Router1#
In this example, we have only summarized 172.25.0.0/16 on interface Serial0/0.2. However, it is important to remember that you can summarize several networks at the same time on a single interface by simply configuring all of the different summary addresses, as follows:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface Serial0/0.2
Router1(config-subif)#ip summary-address eigrp 55 172.25.0.0 255.255.0.0
Router1(config-subif)#ip summary-address eigrp 55 10.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 80
Router1(config-subif)#end
Router1#
When it summarizes addresses, EIGRP will automatically suppress all of the routes that are included in the summary. Of course, if there are no routes to summarize, the router won't distribute the summary address.
The metric of this summary route will be equal to the best metric of the routes being summarized. It is important to remember this because if the route with the best metric goes away for any reason, EIGRP will change the metric of the summary. So if the route with the best metric is unstable, it will make the summary route unstable. If you want to ensure that this doesn't happen, you can configure a static route within the summarized range, and point it to a null interface. Then you must configure the router to redistribute this static route into EIGRP.
The following example shows a CIDR supernet summarization:
Router1#configure terminal
Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z.
Router1(config)#interface Serial0/0.2
Router1(config-subif)#ip summary-address eigrp 55 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0
Router1(config-subif)#end
Router1#
In this case, if there are any routes to distribute at all, EIGRP will distribute only the default route 0.0.0.0/0 and suppress all of the individual routes. This is actually an extremely useful technique on low-speed WAN links, particularly when this link represents the only path to the rest of the network. In such cases, the remote site only needs to know that it can get to everything it needs through this link. Further, because routing is always done by taking the longest match first, if the remote site happens to have more specific routing information for a particular destination, it won't use this summary route.
Router2#show ip route eigrp
D* 0.0.0.0/0 [90/2172416] via 172.25.2.1, 00:00:30, Serial0.1
Router2#
Leak-maps became available in IOS level 12.3(14)T. This feature allows you to configure a summary address, and also advertise some of the summarized networks. In the example shown in the Solutions section above, we have summarized all of the 10.5.0.0/16 range of addresses:
Router9(config)#interface Serial0/0
Router9(config-if)#ip summary-address eigrp 55 10.5.0.0 255.255.0.0 leak-map LEAK10-5-5
This summary includes a leak-map called LEAK10-5-5, which is defined by using a route map:
Router9(config)#ip prefix-list 10.5.5/24 permit 10.5.5.0/24
Router9(config)#route-map LEAK10-5-5 permit 10
Router9(config-route-map)#match ip address prefix-list 10.5.5/24
This route map does nothing but match a particular prefix, 10.5.5.0/24, and exclude it from summarization. We can then look at the routing table on a neighboring router:
Router2#show ip route 10.0.0.0
Routing entry for 10.0.0.0/8, 9 known subnets
Variably subnetted with 3 masks
Redistributing via eigrp 55

D 10.1.2.1/32 [90/2300416] via 172.20.10.9, 00:20:34, Serial0/0
D 10.5.5.0/24 [90/2838016] via 172.20.10.9, 00:00:37, Serial0/0
D 10.1.1.0/24 [90/2300416] via 172.20.10.9, 00:20:34, Serial0/0
D 10.5.0.0/16 [90/2838016] via 172.20.10.9, 00:18:53, Serial0/0
Router2#
This router now receives both the summary address, 10.5.0.0/16, and the specific prefix 10.5.5.0/24. This can be quite useful in situations when you have imperfect summarization. That is, you might be able to reduce all of the routes for a particular part of your network to a single summary route, 10.5.0.0/17. But if the single network 10.5.5.0/24 resides in a different part of the network, you need to make sure that this specific prefix also appears in routing tables throughout the network. Recall that routers will always use the most specific route when forwarding packets. CCIE RS Training

Previously, if you couldn't summarize all of the prefixes in a network, you had to advertise all of the individual routes. So the leak-map feature allows you to reduce the size of your routing table without causing problems for a few exceptions. CCIE Voice Training

Note that because the feature uses route maps to define the leaked routes, you could also match parameters such as the route type (internal, external, or local) tag, or the router's next-hop interface for that route. For example you could use the interface matching to leak individual routes only if the remote site is on dial backup. CCIE Security Training