Solution to Lab Challenge EIGRP
A bit late cause it took me more time then I thought it would but here we go with the first solution “guide”.
Please take into consideration that there are most of the time different ways to solve a task and some I did even not think about. I gonna show you the solutions I had in mind. If you think you got another or even better solution to a task, please feel free to comment about it or send me an e-mail.
Update 31.12.2008: I found an error in the configuration which did not allow R1 to ping R2’s Interfaces and vice versa, this is solved now by adding an additional frame-relay map statement on both interfaces. The configurations are now updated accordingly.
Lab Challenges
Hi all
Based on the “very popular” (15 participants) Lab Challenge poll I gonna create an all in one (except IS-IS 
) routing challenge and also a switching lab. Maybe later on an OSPF and a RIPv2. But first Im working on posting the solutions to the other two labs here. The solution for the EIGRP lab should be up in the next few days.
Best regards
Michel
HSRP Pitfall
Ah well during my changes to our VPN deployment I got into a nice pitfall with HSRP. To define our default router, we use HSRP Tracking which works quite fine but on one location I accidentally forgot to change the tracking onto the new VPN tunnel while I deleted the old one. Not that bad since the traffic took the second path we have. So I went onto the router to change the tracking and well here we go.
Basically the configuration was like this:
R6#sh run int fa 0/0 ! interface FastEthernet0/0 ip address 116.1.1.1 255.255.255.0 duplex auto speed auto standby 1 track Tunnel10 25 standby 1 ip 116.1.1.3 standby 1 priority 120
About
Im a network engineer working for an international medical company based in Basel, Switzerland. I began my professional life in 2000 after 4 years of an IT apprenticeship. I started as the Network Management System responsible with quite a lot other of other tasks inside the Cisco networking field. In 2005 I changed to my current employer where I changed my field of knowledge from part NMS part Networking to full time Networking. I also started to educate myself deeper into networking. After passing the CCNA and CCNP exams I wanted to go further with my education and took the CCIE R&S track instead of doing a school with lots of stuff Im not interested in 
I started the CCIE journey in August 2007 with the first of 5 workshops at the Cisco Network Academy in Rapperswil and passed the CCIE in Brussels at 07th of May 2008.
During that time I wrote a lot of documents to keep the stuff I learned and I thought it might be an idea to make it public so it might help other people on their path through the Cisco Certifications. I hope this site gets useful not only for CCIE candidates but also for other networking professionals on their search for knowledge.
If you have any questions or want to contact me, please drop me a line to pashtuk at gmail.com
