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Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (BSCI) v3.0 5 days Lecture/lab
Course outline

Module 1: Network Requirements

Lesson 1: Describing Network Requirements

  • Cisco Network Models
  • Enterprise Composite Network Model
  • Traffic Conditions in a Converged Network
  • Cisco SONA Framework and IIN
  • Routing and Routing Protocols

Module 2: Configuring EIGRP

Lesson 1: Introducing EIGRP

  • EIGRP Capabilities and Attributes
  • Underlying Processes and Technologies
  • EIGRP Operation
  • EIGRP Metric
  • Calculating the EIGRP Metric
  • Integrating the EIGRP and IGRP Routes

Lesson 2: Implementing and Verifying EIGRP

  • Configuring Basic EIGRP
  • Using a Wildcard Mask in EIGRP
  • Configuring the ip default-network Command
  • Verify EIGRP IP Routes
  • Verify EIGRP IP Operations

Lesson 3: Configuring Advanced EIGRP Options

  • Route Summarization
  • Configuring Manual Route Summarization
  • Load Balancing Across Equal Paths
  • Configuring Load Balancing Across Unequal-Cost Paths
  • EIGRP Bandwidth Use Across WAN Links
  • Configuring EIGRP Bandwidth Use Across WAN Links

Lesson 4: Configuring EIGRP Authentication

  • Router Authentication
  • MD5 Authentication
  • Configuring MD5 Authentication
  • Troubleshooting MD5 Authentication

Lesson 5: Using EIGRP in an Enterprise Network

  • Scalability in Large Networks
  • EIGRP Queries
  • EIGRP Stubs
  • SIA Connections
  • Preventing SIA Connections
  • Graceful Shutdown

Module 3: Configuring OSPF

Lesson 1: Introducing the OSPF Protocol

  • Link-State Routing Protocols
  • OSPF Area Structure
  • OSPF Adjacency Databases
  • Calculating the OSPF Metric
  • Link-State Data Structures

Lesson 2: OSPF Packet Types

  • OSPF Packet Types
  • Establishing OSPF Neighbor Adjacencies
  • Exchanging and Synchronizing LSDBs
  • Maintaining Network Routes
  • Maintaining Link-State Sequence Numbers
  • Verifying Packet Flow

Lesson 3: Configuring OSPF Routing

  • Configuring Basic Single-Area and Multiarea OSPF
  • Configuring a Router ID
  • Verifying the OSPF Router ID
  • Verifying OSPF Operation

Lesson 4: OSPF Network Types

  • Introducing OSPF Network Types
  • Adjacency Behavior for a Point-to-Point Link
  • Adjacency Behavior for a Broadcast Network Link
  • Selecting the DR and BDR
  • Adjacency Behavior for an NBMA Network
  • OSPF over Frame Relay Configuration Options
  • OSPF over Frame Relay NBMA Configuration
  • OSPF over Frame Relay Point-to-Multipoint Configuration
  • Using Subinterfaces in OSPF over Frame Relay Configuration
  • Tracking OSPF Adjacencies

Lesson 5: Link-State Advertisements

  • OSPF Router Types
  • OSPF Virtual Links
  • OSPF LSA Types
  • Interpreting the OSPF LSDB and Routing Table
  • Configuring OSPF LSDB Overload Protection
  • Changing the Cost Metric

Lesson 6: OSPF Route Summarization

  • OSPF Route Summarization
  • Configuring OSPF Route Summarization
  • Benefits of a Default Route in OSPF
  • Configuring a Default Route in OSPF

Lesson 7: Configuring OSPF Special Area Types

  • Configuring OSPF Area Types
  • Configuring Stub Areas
  • Configuring Totally Stubby Areas
  • Interpreting Routing Tables
  • Configuring NSSAs
  • Verifying All Stub Area Types

Lesson 8: Configuring OSPF Authentication

  • Types of Authentication
  • Configuring Simple Password Authentication
  • Configuring MD5 Authentication
  • Troubleshooting Simple Password Authentication
  • Troubleshooting MD5 Authentication

Module 4: The IS-IS Protocol

Lesson 1: Introducing IS-IS and Integrated IS-IS Routing

  • IS-IS Routing
  • Integrated IS-IS Routing
  • Principles and Issues of Integrated IS-IS Design
  • The ES-IS Protocol
  • OSI Routing Levels
  • Comparing IS-IS to OSPF

Lesson 2: Performing IS-IS Routing Operations

  • NSAP Addresses
  • NET Addresses
  • IS-IS Routing Levels
  • Intra-Area and Interarea Addressing and Routing
  • IS-IS PDUs
  • Link-State Packets
  • Implementing IS-IS in NBMA Networks
  • Implementing IS-IS in Broadcast Networks
  • LSP and IIH Levels
  • LSDB Synchronization

Lesson 3: Configuring Basic Integrated IS-IS

  • Integrated IS-IS in a CLNS Environment
  • Configuring Integrated IS-IS
  • Optimizing IS-IS
  • Configuring Route Summarization in IS-IS
  • Verifying IS-IS Configuration
  • Verifying CLNS IS-IS Structures

Module 5: Manipulating Routing Updates

Lesson 1: Operating a Network Using Multiple IP Routing Protocols

  • Using Multiple IP Routing Protocols
  • Defining Route Redistribution
  • Using Seed Metrics

Lesson 2: Configuring and Verifying Route Redistribution

  • Configuring Redistribution
  • Redistributing Routes into RIP
  • Redistributing Routes into OSPF
  • Redistributing Routes into EIGRP
  • Redistributing Routes into IS-IS
  • Verifying Route Redistribution

Lesson 3: Controlling Routing Update Traffic

  • Configuring a Passive Interface
  • Configuring Route Filtering Using Distribute Lists
  • Implementing the Distribute List
  • Defining Route Maps
  • Using route-map Commands
  • Implementing Route Maps with Redistribution
  • Defining Administrative Distance
  • Modifying Administrative Distance
  • Defining the Impact of Administrative Distance Changes

Lesson 4: Implementing Advanced Cisco IOS Features: Configuring DHCP

  • Describing the Purpose of DHCP
  • Understanding the Function of DHCP
  • Configuring DHCP
  • Configuring the DHCP Client
  • Explaining the IP Helper Address
  • Configuring DHCP Relay Services

Module 6: Implementing BGP

Lesson 1: Explaining BGP Concepts and Terminology

  • Using BGP in an Enterprise Network
  • BGP Multihoming Options
  • BGP Routing Between Autonomous Systems
  • Path-Vector Functionality
  • Features of BGP
  • BGP Message Types

Lesson 2: Explaining EBGP and IBGP

  • BGP Neighbor Relationships
  • Establishing EBGP Neighbor Relationships
  • Establishing IBGP Neighbor Relationships
  • IBGP on All Routers in Transit Path

Lesson 3: Configuring Basic BGP Operations

  • Initiate Basic BGP Configuration
  • Activate a BGP Session
  • Shutting Down a BGP Neighbor
  • BGP Configuration Considerations
  • Identifying BGP Neighbor States
  • Authenticating in BGP
  • Troubleshooting BGP

Lesson 4: Selecting a BGP Path

  • Characteristics of BGP Attributes
  • AS Path Attribute
  • Next-Hop Attribute
  • Origin Attribute
  • Local Preference Attribute
  • MED Attribute
  • Weight Attribute
  • Determining the BGP Path Selection
  • Selecting a BGP Path

Lesson 5: Using Route Maps to Manipulate Basic BGP Paths

  • Setting Local Preference with Route Maps
  • Setting the MED with Route Maps
  • Implementing BGP in an Enterprise Network

Module 7: Implementing Multicast

Lesson 1: Explaining Multicast

  • Explaining the Multicast Group
  • IP Multicast Addresses

Lesson 2: IGMP and Layer 2 Issues

  • Introducing IGMPv2
  • Introducing IGMPv3
  • Multicast in Layer 2 Switching
  • Cisco Group Management Protocol
  • IGMP Snooping

Lesson 3: Explaining Multicast Routing Protocols

  • Protocols Used in Multicast
  • Multicast Distribution Trees
  • Introducing IP Multicast Routing
  • Introducing PIM
  • Describing PIM-DM
  • Describing PIM-SM

Lesson 4: Multicast Configuration and Verification

  • Enabling PIM-SM and PIM Sparse-Dense Mode on an Interface
  • Verifying IGMP Groups and IGMP Snooping

Module 8: Implementing IPv6

Lesson 1: Introducing IPv6

  • Explaining IPv6
  • Describing IPv6 Features

Lesson 2: Defining IPv6 Addressing

  • Describing IPv6 Addressing Architecture
  • Defining Address Representation
  • IPv6 Address Types

Lesson 3: Implementing Dynamic IPv6 Addresses

  • Defining Host Interface Addresses
  • Explaining IPv6 Multicast
  • IPv6 Mobility

Lesson 4: Using IPv6 with OSPF and Other Routing Protocols

  • Describing IPv6 Routing
  • OSPF and IPv6
  • Comparing OSPF for IPv6 to OSPFv2
  • LSA Types for IPv6
  • Introducing OSPFv3 Configuration
  • Configuring OSPFv3
  • Verifying OSPFv3

Lesson 5: Using IPv6 with IPv4

  • Describing IPv6-to-IPv4 Transition Mechanisms
  • Describing IPv6-over-IPv4 Tunneling Mechanisms and IPv4 Addresses in IPv6 Format
Course labs

Lab 2-0: Basic Configuration
Lab 2-1: Configuring and Tuning EIGRP
Lab 3-1: Configuring Single-Area OSPF
Lab 3-2: Configuring OSPF for Multiple Areas and Frame Relay Nonbroadcast
Lab 3-3: Configuring OSPF for Multiple Areas and Frame Relay Point-to-Multipoint and Point-to-Point
Lab 3-4: Tuning OSPF
Lab 4-1: Configuring Integrated IS-IS
Lab 5-1: Configuring Basic Redistribution
Lab 5-2: Tuning Basic Redistribution with Cisco IOS Tools
Lab 6-1: Configuring Multihome BGP
Lab 6-2: Manipulating BGP Path Selection with Route Maps
Lab 7-1: Configuring Multicast Routing
Lab 8-1: Configuring IPv6 Addresses
Lab 8-2: Enabling IPv6 OSPF Routing
Lab 8-3: Configuring IPv6 Tunnels


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