111 Articles to Help You Pass the CCIE Routing and Switching Lab Exam

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Here’s a sample of tips from around the web, as indexed in the CCIE Study Wiki, to help you pass the CCIE Routing and Switching Lab exam. Enjoy!

BGP

1. Check out this video on  BGP troubleshooting!
2. Why BGP isn’t installing that route.
3. How to troubleshoot a unreachable BGP neighbor.
4. A presentation on EBGP peering.
5. BGP convergence and updates.
6. Looking at the BGP distance command.
7. A nice chart illustrating the BGP bestpath selection process.
8. Routing with the various BGP attributes.
9. How to use BGP communities to influence routing.
10. Configuring BGP outbound route filtering.
11. Some BGP local-as tips and tricks.
12. BGP fast external failover.

EIGRP

1. Troubleshooting tip: clear your IP EIGRP process!
2. Some basic EIGRP notes, including packet structure diagrams.
3. Showing how EIGRP updates are bounded.
4. Calculating EIGRP metrics.
5. EIGRP metric manipulation.
6. A tutorial on EIGRP stub leak maps.
7. How EIGRP supports unequal cost load-balancing.
8. Using EIGRP neighbor commands.

OSPF

1. Why OSPF routes my be in the OSPF database but not the routing table.
2. Dealing with OSPF neighbors stuck in the EXSTART phase.
3. Saving resources by using the OSPF ispf command.
4. Check out these animations of OSPF operations.
5. OSPF convergence.
6. A tutorial on using OSPF on unnumbered serial links.
7. A summary of the different effects of the OSPF network command.
8. OSPF area types and LSA behavior.
9. An overview of OSPF virtual-link utilization.
10. How to filter OSPF routes that have the same source IP.
11. Mysteries of the OSPF default route.
12. Understanding the OSPF area transit capability.

IP Services

1. The ins and outs of NTP authentication.
2. Configuring an IOS DHCP server.
3. A video on configuring NAT overload.
4. How to preserve NAT translations when a router fails.
5. Watch out for this HSRP “gotcha”.
6. A video on configuring basic HSRP.
7. Setting up load-sharing and VRRP.
8. Gateway Load-Balancing Protocol configuration explained.
9. Using IP accounting to solve a CCIE lab problem.

Layer 2 Technology

1. A discussion of etherchannel load balancing.
2. Setting up a RSPAN session.
3. Here’s an overview of link-state tracking.
4. Some things to watch out for in NBMA environments.
5. An explanation of Frame Relay BECN/FECN usage.
6. How to self-ping with PPP over Frame Relay.
7. How the max spanning tree diameter feature works.
8. Some notes on advanced spanning-tree features.
9. Using spanning tree for to share traffic.
10. How to infer the VLAN of an arriving frame.
11. Things to know about VTP.
12. How private VLANs really work.
13. Using VLAN access lists.
14. PPP one-way authentication.

IPv6

1. How to quickly summarize an IPv6 address.
2. Configuring IPv6 general prefixes.
3. IPv6 tunnel types.
4. How to make a VLAN use IPv6 only.

Multicast

1. A real-world multicast troubleshooting problem.
2. Multicast MAC to IP addressing.
3. Some animations detailing CGMP operation.
4. An overview of IGMP timers.
5. How to control access to a rendezvous point.
6. Manual and Auto RP selection.

QoS

1. Time based QoS policies.
2. How policy-based routing can be used for QoS marking.
3. Using the QoS pre-classify command.
4. Cisco IOS queuing principles.
5. The various types of traffic shaping.
6. Configuring QoS policing.
7. An awesome diagram of the Catalyst 3560 queuing process.
8. Using NBAR.

Network Optimization

1. Some notes on SNMP traps.
2. The difference between RMON absolute and delta modes.
3. An overview of  the IOS embedded event manager.

Route Redistribution

1. Understanding route redistribution.
2. It can be tricky to turn off route redistribution sometimes!
3. Redistributed connected routes are always preferred.
4. An excellent chart detailing the redistribution seed metrics.
5. Set route-tags with the BGP table-map command.

Miscellaneous CCIE Technology Articles

1. A nice explanation of the CEF adjacency table.
2. Using route maps to filter traffic without ACLs.
3. A prefix-list tutorial.
4. Point-to-point and multipoint GRE tunnels.
5. Understanding performance routing.

Security

1. Understanding binary math.
2. Compute an access-list to match even or odd networks.
3. How and why to use reflexive access lists.
4. Compacting ACLs by using ACL object groups.
5. Features of the IOS logging monitor.
6. Configuring 802.1x security.
7. Summarizing the various switch-based security features.
8. Filtering in DHCP snooping.
9. Configuring context-based access control (CBAC).
10. Overview of the IOS Zone-based firewall.

System Management

1. Examining the different banner types.
2. How to source telnet traffic from a secondary IP address.
3. The basics of managing configuration files.
4. Configuring KRON, includes a flash demo.
5. Video on Cisco command filtering.
6. Some undoccumented IOS commands.
7. How to use a “?” as a character in a Cisco password.

General Test Info and Strategy

1. An awesome CCIE Study Kit.
2. CCIE lab preparation strategies.
3. How I passed the CCIE lab.
4. Another CCIE shares his success story.
5. An expanded CCIE 4.0 lab blueprint.
6. Another expanded CCIE 4.0 lab blueprint.
7. How to prep for CCIE Routing and Switching troubleshooting.
8. A free open-ended question quizzer.

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