This blog was originally started to better help me understand the technologies in the CCIE R&S blueprint; after completing the R&S track I have decided to transition the blog into a technology blog.

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This blog will continue to include questions, troubleshooting scenarios, and references to existing and new technologies but will grow to include a variety of different platforms and technologies. Currently I have created over 185 questions/answers in regards to the CCIE R&S track!! Note: answers are in the comment field or within "Read More" section.

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Sunday, December 5, 2010

Question 180

What is the difference between "auto", "force-authorized" and "force-unauthorized" in 802.1x?

Question 179

What is the difference between "downstream on-demand" and downstream unsolicited" modes in LDP.

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Question 178

MPLS is running between R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5. How would you ensure that labels are only generated for loopback interfaces.

R1 - loopback0 100.0.0.1/24
R2 - loopback0 100.0.0.2/24
R3 - loopback0 100.0.0.3/24
R4 - loopback0 100.0.0.4/24
R5 - loopback0 100.0.0.5/24

Monday, November 29, 2010

Question 177

What path attributes would you use to manipulate where outgoing traffic exits?

Question 176

What is the path attributes used to manipulate return traffic?

Monday, November 15, 2010

Just Another Day for an IT Professional

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Question 175

What command can display all traffic destined to a router? Note: IP Traffic

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Troubleshooting 6

Here we go with another simple but interesting troubleshooting scenario


Ensure that R1 can ping R2 and ensure any optimizations are retained.  Interfaces are in an up/up state and there are no ACL or security features restricting access. Some configuration and debug outputs are included below. Please provide a working configuration.


R1
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R1(config)#do ping 10.0.0.2

Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 10.0.0.2, timeout is 2 seconds:
.....
Success rate is 0 percent (0/5)


interface Serial1/0
 ip address 10.0.0.1 255.255.255.0
 load-interval 30
 serial restart-delay 0
end


R2
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R2#
*Mar  1 01:31:40.499: Serial1/0: COMPRESS: (expansion) status: 6, size in: 20, size out: 15
*Mar  1 01:31:50.499: Serial1/0: COMPRESS: (expansion) status: 6, size in: 20, size out: 15
*Mar  1 01:32:00.499: Serial1/0: COMPRESS: (expansion) status: 6, size in: 20, size out: 15
*Mar  1 01:32:10.499: Serial1/0: COMPRESS: (expansion) status: 6, size in: 20, size out: 15



Monday, November 8, 2010

Question 174

What PIM mode is required for BSR?

Question 173

What PIM mode is required for AutoRP?