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MPLS, L3VPN

Grigsby

I was wondering which of the professional level Cisco Certs touch on MPLS and L3VPN. I am currently reading BSCI material now and the only thing close is the introduction to BGP.

I see L3VPN and MPLS all over the place and need to get my head around some VRF statements!

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mikej412

The CCIP does. You'll hit VRFs in the 642-611 MPLS Exam. You'd definitely look at the 642-661 BGP Exam first, to make sure you bring your BGP A-Game to your MPLS studies.

The BSCI Exam is just the warm up and stretching in the CCIP Certification.

Oh -- and it's the MPLS exam that calls you Toto and tell you that you ain't in Kansas anymore.

Grigsby

Awesome!

It looks like I have my work cut out for me. Dude, Cisco rocks!

I wonder if there is an IOS I could fit on 16 MB of flash for a 2500 that supports Tunnels and VRF statements? I have a bunch of 2500s.

mikej412

Grigsby wrote:

I wonder if there is an IOS I could fit on 16 MB of flash for a 2500 that supports Tunnels and VRF statements? I have a bunch of 2500s.

Check out this CCIP home Lab ?? router & IOS ??? thread for the FTP addresss to a funky cisco-hacked 2500 IOS with MPLS support that can be ftp'd from the Cisco web site. Since I was planning for the CCIE, I used the MPLS exam as an excuse to get 3640s for a home CCIE Lab, so I didn't play that much with the 2500 MPLS IOS image.

Your other option -- if you have access to 7200 or 3600 IOS images -- is Dynamips (and Dynagen). I posted the Dynagen/Dynamips info in a CCNA thread yesterday.

Grigsby

I appreciate that reference to the ftp. Looks like that is one of the most featured IOSs I have found for the 2500. Even the 8 meg IOS is pretty good. At least its better than one I had!

Thanks!