The document describes configuring Anycast routing using RIP routing protocol across a network topology. The lab involves building the network, configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and RIP routing, and simulating an Anycast server using loopback interfaces on two routers to demonstrate how the routing protocol selects the closest path.
The document describes configuring Anycast routing using RIP routing protocol across a network topology. The lab involves building the network, configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and RIP routing, and simulating an Anycast server using loopback interfaces on two routers to demonstrate how the routing protocol selects the closest path.
The document describes configuring Anycast routing using RIP routing protocol across a network topology. The lab involves building the network, configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and RIP routing, and simulating an Anycast server using loopback interfaces on two routers to demonstrate how the routing protocol selects the closest path.
The document describes configuring Anycast routing using RIP routing protocol across a network topology. The lab involves building the network, configuring IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and RIP routing, and simulating an Anycast server using loopback interfaces on two routers to demonstrate how the routing protocol selects the closest path.
Introduction Anycast is a network addressing and routing methodology in which a single destination address has multiple routing paths to two or more endpoint destinations. Routers will select the desired path on the basis of number of hops, distance, lowest cost, latency measurements or based on the least congested route. Anycast networks are widely used for content delivery network (CDN) products to bring their content closer to the end user. In this lab, you will implement Anycast routing using RIP routing protocol. You will see how the routing protocol will select a different path to the Anycast server (simulated by loopback interfaces on R1 and R4) on each router according to the hop count metric. You will also introduce changes in the topology to force the routing protocol to adapt Note: Make sure that the routers and switch have been erased and have no startup configurations.
Required Resources 4 Routers. 3 PCs. Console cables to configure the Cisco IOS devices via the console ports. Ethernet and serial cables as shown in the topology.
Page 1 of 7 Routing And Switching Lab – 2019 Eng. Ibrahim Amreya Dr. Othman M. Othman Part 1: Build the Network and Verify Connectivity In Part 1, you will set up the network topology and configure basic settings, such as the interface IP addresses, routing, device access, and passwords.
Step 1: Cable the network as shown in the topology.
Step 2: Configure basic settings for each router.
a. Console into the router and enter global configuration mode. b. Do the following basic configuration on each router. no ip domain-lookup service password-encryption enable secret pass banner motd # Unauthorized access is strictly prohibited. # Line con 0 password pass login logging synchronous line vty 0 4 password pass login end
c. Configure the host name as shown in the topology.
d. Configure and activate all interfaces on all routers.
Step 3: Configure RIP routing.
a. Configure RIP on all routers with the following commands: Router(config)# router rip Router(config-router)# version 2 Router(config-router)# network 192.168.1.0 Router(config-router)# no auto-summary b. Use the show ip route command on all routers to view the routing table.
R1#show ip route 192.168.1.0/30 is subnetted, 3 subnets C 192.168.1.0 is directly connected, Serial0/0/1 R 192.168.1.4 [120/1] via 192.168.1.2, 00:00:19, Serial0/0/1 R 192.168.1.8 [120/2] via 192.168.1.2, 00:00:19, Serial0/0/1 R1#
Step 4: Verify network connectivity.
a. Verify that you can ping across the serial links when you are finished. Use the following Tcl script to check full and partial connectivity.
Page 2 of 7 Routing And Switching Lab – 2019 Eng. Ibrahim Amreya Dr. Othman M. Othman R1# tclsh
foreach address { 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.5 192.168.1.6 192.168.1.9 192.168.1.10 } { ping $address } b. Troubleshoot if the pings are unsuccessful.
Part 2: Configure Anycast hosts
In Part 2, you will configure routers R1 and R4 to simulate an internet service that uses the Anycast IP address 10.10.10.10/32.
Step 1: Enable route debugging
To view any changes to the routing table on R2 do the following: R2# debug ip routing Keep the console of R2 open at all times.
Step 2: Create loopback 0 interface on R4
Create loopback 0 interface on R4: R4(config)# interface lo0 R4(config-if)# ip address 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255
Notice the messages on R2 console. What does it mean? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________
Step 5: Verify the new route was added to R2s’ and R3s’ routing table. What is the next hop IP address for the Anycast network on R2 and R3? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Step 6: Create lo0 on R1
Create loopback 0 interface on R1: R1(config)# interface lo0
Page 3 of 7 Routing And Switching Lab – 2019 Eng. Ibrahim Amreya Dr. Othman M. Othman R1(config-if)# ip address 10.10.10.10 255.255.255.255
Step 7: Add lo0 to RIP.
Add the Anycast network to the RIP routing process on R1.
Step 8: View the debug output on R2.
Notice the messages on R2 console. What does it mean? _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________
Step 9: Verify the Anycast route on R2.
a. What is the next hop IP address for the Anycast network on R2 and R3? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________ b. Use the traceroute command to list the path of traffic to the Anycast IP from R2 and R3: R2 path: _______________ _______________ R3 path:_______________ _______________ c. Shut down loopback 0 on R1. d. Notice the messages on R2 console. What does it mean? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ e. Enable loopback 0 on R1.
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Part 3: IPv6 Anycast
An anycast address is an address that is assigned to a set of interfaces that typically belong to different nodes. A packet sent to an anycast address is delivered to the closest interface (as defined by the routing protocols in use) identified by the anycast address. Anycast addresses are syntactically indistinguishable from unicast addresses, because anycast addresses are allocated from the unicast address space. Assigning a unicast address to more than one interface makes a unicast address an anycast address. Nodes to which the anycast address is assigned must be explicitly configured to recognize that the address is an anycast address. In Part 3, you will configure IPv6 anycast using the same topology. The addressing table is listed here:
Configure all routers as follows: a. Enable IPv6 unicast routing. b. Configure all interfaces with their IPv6 global and link local addresses. c. Enable RIPng for all interfaces. Following is the configuration for R1 as an example: R1(config)# ipv6 unicast-routing R1(config)# ipv6 router rip RIP1 R1(config)# interface s0/0/1 R1(config-if)# ipv6 address 2001:db8:acad:1::1/64 R1(config-if)# ipv6 address FE80::1 link-local R1(config-if)# ipv6 rip RIP1 enable
Page 5 of 7 Routing And Switching Lab – 2019 Eng. Ibrahim Amreya Dr. Othman M. Othman Step 2: Verify routing for IPv6 a. Use the show ipv6 route command on all routers to view the routing table. All destinations should be present on all routers. b. Use the show ipv6 protocols to verify RIPng routing protocol.
Step 3: Verify network connectivity.
Verify that you can ping across the serial links when you are finished. From router R1 ping all global unicast addresses of other routers:
2001:db8:acad:2::1 successful?_______ 2001:db8:acad:1::2 successful?_______ 2001:db8:acad:2::2 successful?_______ 2001:db8:acad:3::1 successful?_______ 2001:db8:acad:3::2 successful?_______ a. Troubleshoot if the pings are unsuccessful.
Part 4: Configure Anycast hosts
In Part 4, you will configure routers R1 and R4 to simulate an internet service that uses the Anycast IPv6 address 100::1/128.
Step 2: Verify the new route was added to R2s’ and R3s’ IPv6 routing table. What is the next hop IPv6 address for the Anycast network on R2 and R3? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
a. What is the next hop IPv6 address for the Anycast network on R2 and R3? _____________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________________
Page 6 of 7 Routing And Switching Lab – 2019 Eng. Ibrahim Amreya Dr. Othman M. Othman b. Use the traceroute command to list the path of traffic to the Anycast IPv6 address from R2 and R3: R2 path: _______________________________ _______________________________ R3 path:________________________________ ________________________________ c. Shut down loopback 0 on R1. d. What effect does that have on the network? ____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ e. Traceroute 100::1 on R2 what is the path taken? __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ f. Use the following command on R4: R4#ping 2001:db8:acad:1::2 source lo0 g. What was the result? Explain. _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________
