Prerequisite knowledge to Pass CCIE Routing and Switching

Fig 1: Prerequisite knowledge to Pass CCIE Routing and Switching

Introduction

• General Guidelines
• Course Introduction
• Course Scope
• Basic Networking Terms
• TCP/IP & OSI Model
• Introduction to Network Devices
• Introduction to Decimal, Binary and Hexa-Decimal Numbers
• Work experience on Recommended Software:
• Putty/Secure CRT
• Cisco Packet Tracer
• GNS3
• Web-IOU
• EVE-ng

Addressing Schemes

IPv4 Addressing:

• History of IPv4 Addressing
• Format of IPv4 Addressing
• Classification of IPv4 Addressing
• Calculating Number of networks in classes
• Calculation number of hosts per network
• Concept of Network-id and Broadcast-id
• Subnet Mask and Wildcard Mask
• Concept of Default Gateway
• Routed & Non-Routed Ports
• Rules of IP addressing for Routed Ports
• Classless IP addressing:
• Subnetting and Super-netting

IPv6 Addressing:

• History of IPv6 Addressing
• Format of IPv6 addressing
• Network Prefix and Interface ID
• Types of IPv6 Addresses

MAC Addressing:

• History of MAC addressing
• Format of MAC addresses
• Types of MAC addresses

Lab Setup Experience

• Basic Lab Setup with Cisco Devices.
• LAN and WAN cables
• Physical Overview of Routers and Switches.
• How to access network devices locally.
• Difference between local and remote access.
• Introduction to terminal applications such as Putty, Hyper terminal and Secure CRT etc.
• Introduction to Cisco IOS and CLI.
• Initial Configuration of Cisco IOS.
• Introduction of different modes of Cisco IOS.
• Configure and verify clock
• Configure and verify hostname
• Configure and verify user access verification or
• login password
• Configure and verify enable password
• Configure and verify enable secret
• Learn how to modify, copy, write and erase configuration.
• Verify running-config and startup-config
• Create username, password and their privileges
• Configure banners:
• motd
• login
• exec
• Practice above configuration of Cisco Packet Tracer and GNS3.

Advanced Configuration

• Introduction to LAN and WAN interfaces.
• How to configure and troubleshoot Ethernet and Serial interfaces.
• Configure description on interfaces.
• Configure ipv4 and ipv6 addresses on interfaces.
• Configure Keepalive, clock rate and encapsulation on interfaces.
• How to make admin up and down interfaces.
• Verify connectivity with test traffic.
• Introduce ICMP-echo and echo-reply.
• Use of ping command and understand output.
• Impact of round-trip time.
• Remote-access with TELNET and SSH.
• Introduction of DNS.
• Configure DNS.
• Introduction to DHCP.
• How to configure DHCP on Cisco IOS.

Basic Routing

• Introduction to Routing for reachability.
• Understand next hop.
• How to configure next hop with:
• Outgoing interface
• Next Hop IP address
• Understand static routing.
• Configure and verify static routing for IPv4
• Introduction to Dynamic Routing
• Types of routing protocols
• Interior gateway protocols:
• RIP: Routing Information Protocol
• OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
• IS-IS: Intermediate System to Intermediate System
• Exterior Gateway protocols:
• BGP: Border Gateway Protocol
• Administrative Distance or preference of routing methods.
• Configure and verify Default Routing.
• Configure and verify DHCP Relay Agent.

Network Services and IOS Features

• IOS and Configuration Backup with TFTP
• Configure and verify CDP
• Configure and verify LLDP
• Configure and verify NTP: Network Time Protocol
• Password Recovery
• Configure and verify Embedded Event Manager: EEM
• Configure KRON Scheduler
• Configure and verify SYSLOG
• IPv6 DHCP Server, Client and Relay Agent

IP Traffic Management

• Introduction to Access Control List
• Configure and verify standard ACL
• Configure and verify extended ACL
• Contiguous and dis-contiguous wildcard mask
• Implement named and numbered ACL
• Introduction to public and private IP addresses
• Introduction to NAT and PAT.
• Configure and verify network address translation
• Configure and verify PAT/NAT-overloading

Deep Dive into Dynamic Routing

• Understand and Implement Routing Information Protocol.
• OSPF: Open Shortest Path First
• Link State Algorithm
• OSPF Process-id.
• OSPF Router-id.
• Configure Loopback Interfaces
• OSPF Area-id.
• OSPF contiguous wildcard mask
• OSPF Metric: cost
• OSPF Tables:
• Configure and verify single area OSPF.
• Design and implement multiple area OSPF.
• Regular and transit area.
• Define Internal Router, Backbone Router,
• Backbone Internal Router, Area Border Router
• and ASBR.
• Introduce and configure redistribution.
• Define seed/external metric.
• Type 1 and Type 2 seed metric.
• Static routes with null-0 for testing.

OSPF and Policy Based Routing

Introduction to PBR tools:

1. Route-map
2. IP prefix-list
3. Distribute-list
4. ACL

OSPF Design constraints and filtering

• OSPF Packet types
• OSPF neighbor states
• OSPF over multi-access networks
• DR, BDR and DRO roles in multi-access networks.
• Introducing OSPF LSA types 1 to 7.
• Regular area types:
• Stub Area
• Totally Stubby area
• NSSA: Not So Stubby Area
• Totally NSSA
• Configure and verify OSPF Virtual Links.
• Continuous and discontinuous OSPF backbones.
• OSPF filters:
• IP prefix-lists
• Area filters
• Passive interface
• Route summarization
• Authentication

Troubleshooting

• Understand network troubleshooting tools and
• techniques
• Ping      
• Syslog: 
• Debugging
• Conditional debugging
• Traceroute
• telnet   
• Advanced show commands with filters
• Troubleshoot RIP related issues.
• Troubleshoot OSPF related issues.

Deep Dive into Exterior Gateway Protocol

• Introduction to EGP
• Historical Background
• Introduction to Multihoming
• BGP fundamentals.
• Internal and External BGP.
• BGP attributes: Weight, Local preference, As-path, Multi exit discriminator, Origin   
• Router-id
• BGP route-summarization
• PBR with BGP attributes and PBR tools
• Full Mesh i-BGP
• Route-reflector configuration
• BGP configuration best practices
• BGP Packet types and states
• BGP authentication

Deep Dive into Intermediate System to Intermediate System.

• Understanding IS-IS routing protocol.
• Importance of IS-IS in ISPs.
• Comparison of OSPF and IS-IS
• IS-IS L1, L2 and L1L2 Router roles
• IS-IS L1, L2 and L1L2 neighbor relation.
• IS-IS PDUs: L1 Hello PDU, L2 Hello PDU
• L1 & L2 PSNP
• L1 & L2 CSNP
• IS-IS over multi-access network
• DIS role in multi-access network
• Route Leaking from L2 into L1
• IS-IS for AF IPv6
• Configure and verify Static Routing for IPv6 addresses.
• Configure and verify RIP-ng
• Configure and verify OSPF-v3
• Configure and verify BGP (AF-IPv6)

Implementing VPNs DMVPN     

• Introduction to Virtual Private Networks
• Configure and verify GRE tunnels
• Configure and verify IP-Sec :IKE 1, IKE 2
• Configure and verify DMVPN: Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3

MPLS & MPLS VPN

Understanding Switching Architectures:

• Control Plane
• Data Plane
• Understanding Routing Information Base
• Understanding Forwarding Information Base
• Understanding MPLS
• MPLS header
• MPLS Labels
• Label Information Base
• Label Forwarding Information Base
• Label Allocation
• Label Distribution
• Label Retention
• Configure and verify basic MPLS
• Understanding MPLS VPN
• VRF
• Route Distinguisher
• Route Targets
• MP-BGP

Multicasting & QoS

Introduction to Multicasting

• Multicast Source & Client
• Multicast Routing
• Protocol Independent Multicast
• PIM Dense Mode
• PIM Sparse Mode
• Rendezvous Point: RP
• Multicast Domain
• BSR
• IGMP
• MSDP
• Introduction to Quality of Service
• Network Congestion Management
• Classification and Marking
• IP Precedence
• DSCP
• Congestion avoidance with WRED
• Queueing Techniques
• Policing and Shaping

Ethernet Switching

• Forwarding on the basis of MAC Addresses
• Address Resolution Protocol
• ARP Table/Cache
• Switchport Modes
• Access Ports
• Trunk Ports
• Static Trunk
• Dynamic Trunk
• DTP
• Dynamic Desirable
• Dynamic Auto
• Dot1q and ISL
• SPAN
• RSPAN
• Broadcast Domain
• Collision Domain

VLANS

• Introduction to VLAN
• Configure and verify basic VLAN configuration.
• VTP: VLAN Trunking Protocol
• VTP mode server
• VTP mode client
• VTP mode Transparent
• VTP Updates
• VTP Pruning
• VTP Versions
• Introduction to GVRP
• Native VLAN
• Private VLANS
• Voice VLANS

Inter VLAN Routing

• Inter VLAN routing with Access ports
• Inter VLAN routing with Router on a Stick
• Inter VLAN routing with SVI (MLS)
• Inter VLAN routing with Routed and Non-Routed Ports
• Concept of SVI
• How to allow and block VLANs on trunk links

L2 Redundancy STP

• Introduction to L2 redundancy
• Infinite switching loops
• Broadcast storm
• Inconsistent MAC address table
• Introduction to Spanning-tree protocol
• Bridge-id
• Root Bridge
• Non-Root Bridge
• Switch Role Election
• Port Role Election
• Root Port            
• Designated Port
• Non-Designated/Block Port
• Impact of Bridge-id
• Path Cost            
• Sender’s Port-id
• Per VLAN STP: PVST
• PVST+  
• Load-balancing and redundancy

STP Enhancements Protect STP Operations RSTP MST/MISTP

• Implementing Portfast feature.
• Implementing Uplinkfast
• Implementing Backbonefast
• BPDU Guard      
• BPDU Filter        
• Root Guard        
• Loop Guard       
• Understand & Implement RSTP
• Understand & Implement MST

Link Aggregation Link Bundling EtherChannel L3 Redundancy

• Introduction to link aggregation
• Configure and verify EtherChannel
• Port Channel
• Channel Group
• Static Implementation
• Dynamic EtherChannel with Different Load-balancing techniques.
• Introduce First Hop Redundancy
• Hot Standby Routing Protocol
• HSRP tracking

L3 Redundancy & Switch Security

• Implementing VRRP
• VRRP Object Tracking
• Implementing GLBP
• AVG      
• AVF       
• Implementing GLBP Object Tracking
• Implementing Switch Port Security
• DHCP Snooping
• Dynamic ARP Inspection
• VACL    
• VLAN access-maps