Scenarios & Labs
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additional training
resources.
Here you can find links that will be very useful during your time on the
routers.
Lab Challenges; are meant to test your ability to solve configurations
problems with little or no guidance. You should be working on these
before attempting Cisco's CCIE® lab
Instructional Labs; we have just started adding these introductory level
labs.. These will be for beginners and will offer step-by-step instructions to
help you get familiar with Cisco routers and networking..
Sample Configs; will give you standard router configurations that you can
cut and paste to the routers to form; Frame Relay Switches, or the config
used by the Term_Srv in the rack
The study aids you will find here are of some value without equipment.
But, you really should look at these labs and scenarios as assignments to be
completed on some real Cisco® equipment. You need to get used to using
the "show", "debug" and other command line tools to figure out why your
configuration does not work. If this site had 200 scenarios and 200 Sample
Labs you would still find things on Cisco's CCIE® lab test, that you have
not worked with before (or you worked with it so long ago that you forgot
it!)
Good Luck!!!
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Revised labs have been revised at least two times. Beta labs are new labs that have had little or no feedback from
users. We try to ensure that our labs are correct when they are posted, but nothing finds flaws in them like posting
them publicly. For that reason we always welcome input from our users on errors or comments on our labs.

Beta Labs
Be warned, these labs are not done. If
anyone want to champion any of them and
get them finished up just let me know.
Lab of the Month
Sorry guys, I still have not had time to get
this going. I haven't given up on it though!
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101 Reverse Telnet
Revised 3-
20-00
This lab will teach you how to configure reverse telnet. You will likely be required to
configure this on the term_srv in the lab. The only difference between this lab and actually
configuring the terminal server is the number of ports involved and their name. In this lab, you
will be setting up R3 to act as a Terminal Server. R3 has only one AUX port. Normally you
would use a 2511 which has 17 ports that you can use.

1. Configure a loopback interface on R3 with the IP address 10.1.1.1/24.
2. Configure R3's Token Ring interface with IP address 10.2.2.1/24.
3. Configure R4's Token Ring interface with IP address 10.2.2.2/24
4. Test that you can telnet from R4 to R3's Token Ring port and enter enable mode.
5. Configure R3 so that you can reach the AUX port on R4 by typing "R4" at the command
prompt of R3.

The reason for configuring the Token Ring interfaces is so that you will have an alternate

you will use what you have learned on the lab. Keep in mind on the lab you won't be reverse telnetting
twice in a row, so you can always use "ctrl+shift+6" and "x" to go back the the real Term_Srv router. You need a loopback interface to reverse telnet
back to. In theory you should be able to reverse
telnet to any IP address on the box but I have
found problems when you don't use a loop back
address on some routers.
This interface is configured strictly so you can get
back into the router to clear line 1 after you reverse
telnet to R4 from R3
! R3 *********************************
Current configuration:
!
version 11.2
no service password-encryption
no service udp-small-servers

no ip classless
!
!
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101 Reverse Telnet SolutionThis the line that does all the magic. transport
input all is required to do reverse telnet. The "no
exec" command immediately above helps keep the
screen from getting junked up but is not necessary.
Don't forget to set a telnet password or you won't
be able to telnet back into R3 from R4.
line con 0
line aux 0

interface Serial1
ip address 192.19.15.2 255.255.255.0
ip rip authentication mode 0
!
interface TokenRing0
ip address 10.2.2.2 255.255.255.0
ring-speed 16
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101 Reverse Telnet Solution
R4 is really only configured so that you see the
hostname of the router when you successfully
reverse telnet and so that you can telnet back to R3
from R4 to "clear line 1" and get your R3 console
back.IF YOU HAVE TROUBLE GETTING BACK TO
R3 or R4 DURING THIS LAB JUST GO TO
THE REBOOT DEVICE (PWR) ON THE
TERM_SRV AND TYPE "reboot 3" AND/OR
"reboot 4" TO REBOOT THE ROUTERS AND
START OVER.

!
no ip classless
!
!
line con 0
line aux 0
line vty 0 4

version 11.3
service timestamps debug uptime
service timestamps log uptime
service password-encryption
service udp-small-servers
service tcp-small-servers
!
hostname term_serv
!
no ip domain-lookup
ip host R1 2001 10.1.1.1
ip host R2 2002 10.1.1.1
ip host R3 2003 10.1.1.1
ip host R4 2004 10.1.1.1
ip host cat 2006 10.1.1.1
ip host pwr 2008 10.1.1.1
!
interface Loopback0
ip address 10.1.1.1 255.255.255.0
!
interface Ethernet0
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Reverse Telnet config
ip address x.x.x.x 255.255.255.x
no ip directed-broadcast
no ip proxy-arp
no cdp enable
!
interface Serial0
no ip address