Unit description
The purpose of this unit is to provide further insight about complex implementations of routing techniques, relying heavily on skills and competencies which should have been attained on completion of the previous unit, “Advanced Routing Part I”.
Most of the learning content has been developed in accordance to a number of deliverables as outlined in the Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing module CCNP 300-101. This is the latest version so far, featuring the most advanced routing techniques and configurations which are currently implemented in the IT industry.
The topics which are comprised in this unit mainly include in-depth knowledge and implementation of multi-area OSPF with all it’s strengths and features to provide optimal routing decisions in large enterprise networks, total control over routing updates which are sent and received as a result of network advertisements by dynamic routing protocols, application of various techniques used to prevent suboptimal routing, ability to forward traffic to destination networks depending from where traffic is being originated, and last but not least the application of one of the most popular tunnelling protocols “GRE” typically used to logically connect endpoints that reside in different autonomous systems, which finally leads to where BGP plays its role.
All mentioned deliverables shall be fulfilled by making use of a number of virtualisation technologies which closely resemble real-life setups.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this unit the student will be able to:
- LO1 - Implement and configure multi-area OSPF at an advanced level.
- LO2 - Implement and configure routing manipulation techniques.
- LO3 - Apply source-based routing for path control.
- LO4 - Implement and configure BGP and GRE Tunnelling solutions.