Definitive IP routing for engineers

Description

An intensive hands on IP routing course leading to LINX Accredited Internet Technician stage 2 focusing on routing in an IP environment. The course concentrates on OSPF and IS-IS but also covers BGP and MPLS. Hands on sessions are used to reinforce the theory rather than teach specific manufacturer equipment.
A multiple choice exam, leading to the LAIT II certification, is available after the course. The exam consists of 60 questions and lasts 2.0 hours.

What will you learn

An optional multiple choice exam, leading to the LAIT II certification, is included at the end of the course. The exam consists of 60 questions and lasts 2.0 hours. Definitive IP routing training course details

Network engineers

TCP/IP Foundation for engineers

5 days

Review of LAIT I routing, reading routing tables.
Hands on Setting up a routed network.

Why use static routes? Default routes.
Hands on Configuring static routes.

Default gateways, VRRP/HSRP/GLBP. Load sharing, critical IP addresses.
Hands on VRRP.

What is OSPF? Process IDs, passive interfaces.
Hands on Simple OSPF.

Bit boundary subnetting, calculating network numbers.
Exercise: Subnetting.

Metrics, convergence, DV vs. Link state, IGPs, classless, OSPF features, load sharing, OSPF authentication.
Hands on OSPF features.

How OSPF works, LSAs, LSDB, router IDs, hellos, configuring hellos, exchange protocol.
Hands on Investigating OSPF structures.

Scalability, why areas? Area IDs, area 0, ABRs, ABR resilience, areas & LSDBs & LSAs, virtual links.
Hands on Multi area OSPF.

Multiple routing protocols, common scenarios, routing distance, External LSAs, E1 and E2. Type 4 LSAs. OSPF and default routes.
Hands on Configuring static route redistribution.

Route summarisation. How to aggregate, CIDR, ASBR summarisation.
Hands on OSPF address summarisation.

OSPF packets, protocol stack, packet flows, OSPF headers, neighbours, neighbour states, DRs, adjacencies, BDRs, DR election.
Hands on Analysing OSPF packets, troubleshooting. OSPF

LSA types, area types, area architecture, stub areas, default routes, benefits & disadvantages of stub areas, TSSAs, NSSAs, Type 7 LSAs.
Hands on Stub and TSSA configuration.

End systems, Intermediate systems, how IS-IS works, IS-IS router ID, Level 1, Level 2, IS-IS hierarchy.
Hands on Configuring IS-IS, troubleshooting IS-IS.

Autonomous systems, Peering, transit, looking glasses.
Hands on Internet routing tables.

IGPs, EGPs, What's BGP? BGP RIB, in/out process, tables peers, adding routes.
Hands on Simple configuration and troubleshooting.

Multi protocol routing, IPv6 addressing, IPv6 routing tables, IPv6 static routes, OSPFv3, IS-IS and IPv6.
Hands on Routing IPv6.

STP, RSTP, L2 IS-IS, Multi system link aggregation.
Hands on RSTP.

Core MPLS, MPLS and the 7 layer model, MPLS protocol, MPLS standard, MPLS runs on routers, MPLS history, Why MPLS?, LSRs, PE and P router roles, FEC, swapping labels, MPLS packet format.
Hands on Enabling MPLS. Testing and troubleshooting of MPLS.

EIGRP: How EIGRP works, DUAL.