👤Wendell Odom
🕔21:05, 28.Sep 2021
This latest config lab takes a backwards approach to configuration. In this case, it starts with a bunch of show commands, and asks you to derive some of the key configuration items on several routers. The theme: IPv6 addressing. By
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔19:05, 28.Sep 2021
This latest config lab takes a backwards approach to configuration. In this case, it starts with a bunch of show commands, and asks you to derive some of the key configuration items on several routers. The theme: IPv6 addressing. By
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔17:05, 28.Sep 2021
Although this lab’s title is “IPv6 Static Routes 3”, it might be better called “Convoluted Fun with overlapping IPv6 Static Routes using Administrative Distance”. The purpose of the lab is to exercise a couple of specific ideas: how a router
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔15:05, 28.Sep 2021
IPv6 routing has many similarities with IPv4 routing; however, the length of the IPv6 addresses can sometimes get in the way of learning the main concepts. This next lab removes those barriers with a straightforward IPv6 static route configuration lab.
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔13:05, 28.Sep 2021
Ever get tired of sifting through the details of seemingly random IPv6 addresses? Well, today’s lab gives you yet another quick config exercise while using very easy-to-remember IPv6 addresses and prefixes. The task today: configuring static IPv6 routes. All the
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔11:05, 28.Sep 2021
IPv6 addresses just take a little getting used to. This next lab gives you same reps with configuring Global Unicast addresses, while giving you a few mind-bending exercises to make you think about Link Local addresses and EUI-64. I would
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔09:05, 28.Sep 2021
Do you know how to take an interface MAC address and determine what IPv6 address the interface would use when using EUI-64? Could you then do the reverse: take the IPv6 address, and predict what MAC address is used for
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔15:05, 24.Sep 2021
OSPF chooses the best route to reach a subnet based on the lowest cost among all possible routes. OSPF calculates the cost as the sum of the OSPF interface costs of all outgoing interfaces in the route. Unsurprisingly, you can
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔13:05, 24.Sep 2021
OSPF uses a router's Router ID (RID) to identify each router. We see the RID in many OSPF verification commands, so using predictable, known OSPF RID values can help people operate networks. This lab asks you to configure the OSPF
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👤Wendell Odom
🕔11:05, 24.Sep 2021
The OSPF network type setting happens to be one of the more useful optional OSPF features. This setting changes a couple of details about how OSPF operates on an interface. Ethernet WAN links with two routers only benefit from a
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