Re: Speed is part of the syllabus

For sure is a great strategy for iBGP full mesh, I hate situations like this
and for sure this is going to help so many people on increasing their
speed... Would you also recommend alias commands? I don't know why, but I
just dont like it.

Rgs,

2010/10/4 --Hammer-- <bhmccie_at_gmail.com>

> HEY! That's good stuff! I like that BGP trick. Thanks Olugbenga. I'm gonna
> try that tonight.
>
> --Hammer--
>
>
>
> On 10/2/2010 9:07 PM, olugbenga lasisi wrote:
>
>> Experts et all,
>>
>> It's been over a week now that i had my breakthrough. I have decided
>> that i'll keep sharing my success tips as they come to me. I shared some
>> last week in my victory speech :).
>>
>> This post is about speed. I think this is key in succeeding in this race.
>> There are tons of tricks, well maybe not tricks, rather means (if that
>> sounds better) that could aid your speed in the exam. Few of these tips
>> that
>> we might all already know are;
>>
>>
>> - Let notepad be your pen
>> - CISCO DOC CD your bible
>> - If you can avoid using multiple windows, that is; the only wife you
>> should have in the lab is the term-server other devices should be its
>> kids
>> :)
>>
>> and so on ...
>>
>> Now lets get to the ones i discovered during my prep....I called them the
>> magical commands.
>>
>> Like the one that makes you configure full mesh ibgp on multiple devices
>> in
>> 5 mins...I am sure someone must have said impossible,
>> Well it is and the command is *"do show history"* in config mode. How does
>> this work? I'll tell you..
>>
>> If i have to configure bgp xxx on Routers; R1,R2,R3 and R4 with a full
>> ibgp
>> mesh.. This is what i do.
>>
>> *On router R1*
>> Conf t
>> Router bgp xxx
>> nei a.b.1.1 remote-as xxx (i am sure in your mind, you'll say this guy is
>> nut for peering a device with itself, just hold your breadth i'll explain
>> later)
>> nei a.b.2.2 remote-as xxx
>> nei a.b.3.3 remote-as xxx
>> nei a.b.4.4 remote-as xxx
>> bgp router-id a.b.1.1 ( note that putting this in the last line was
>> intentional,( someone might say order is important but then,* Reload* does
>> the magic of re-ordering the commands)
>>
>>
>> Then i'll apply one of my magical commands "*do show history*" which shows
>> me the message below as part of my last typed commands"
>>
>> Router bgp xxx
>> nei a.b.1.1 remote-as xxx
>> nei a.b.2.2 remote-as xxx
>> nei a.b.3.3 remote-as xxx
>> nei a.b.4.4 remote-as xxx
>>
>> so the next step is to copy these and paste on the rest of the devices.
>> and
>> on each configure the respective router-ids.
>>
>> *Now the reason i decided to peer R1 with itself is because i know the
>> router will reject the command but then i'll still have it as part of my
>> show history output, thus i can copy it and paste on other devices*.
>>
>> Try this method out and if you don't finsh ibgp config in 5 mins...I owe
>> you
>> lunch...that's if you are close to me and you are not a snail on the
>> keyboard :).
>>
>> I ll stop for now and share some more in the future.....
>>
>> By the way this is me paying back for the wealth of knowledge i got from
>> this forum :)
>>
>
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