GNS3 L

ABS

FOR

CCNP-X

AND

CCDP

I'm glad to share these GNS3 Labs with you.

This small collection of GNS3 Labs comes from different sources (all self-made labs are nested under ‘jean-christophe’

folders) and covers all the features required for CCNP ROUTE & TSHOOT v2 exam and about 50 % of the

features required for CCNP SWITCH v2 exam.

1. CCNP ROUTE

● gns3vault

● Joshua 's CLN post (reflecting CCNP ROUTE Lab Manual and global lab)

● self-made labs sometimes inspired by Wendell Odom's ROUTE OCG, covering most of the features required

for the exam:

IPv4 and IPv6 Routing Protocols➣

√ EIGRP and EIGRPv6,

√ OSPFv2 and OSPFv3,

√ RIPng,

√ BGP (see also CCNP-SP/SPADVROUTE/BGP/Jean-Christophe/MP-BGP),

Traffic Engineering➣

√ Redistribution,

√ Filtering,

√ PBR,

√ SLA,

Migration IPv4 → IPv6➣

√ IPv6

√ Static and Dynamic Tunnels

Branch Internet Connections➣

√ NAT

√ DHCP

√ GRE and VPN Tunnels

2. CCNP SWITCH

Self-made labs and the CCNP SWITCH Manual labs, covering only a subset of the features required for the exam:

+ PVST+ with some enhancements

+ VLANs, Trunks and VTP

+ EtherChannel: PAgP and Load-Balancing

+ Inter-Vlan Routing: SVIs and routed ports

+ High-Availability: HSRP, VRRP and GLBP

+ QOS (lab in progress)

+ Syslog, SLA and SNMP

The following features are not tested with those labs (IOSv-L2 was not available when I implemented them):

- RSTP, MSTP and UDLD

- Private VLANs

- LACP

- Security: port security, VACLs, PACLs, DHCP Snooping, IP Source Guard, Deep ARP Inspection, 802.1X

- Wireless: LWAPP, CAPWAP, H-REAP

- VOIP

- High Availability: RPR, SSO and NSF

3. CCNP TSHOOT

Self-made labs covering almost all aspects of the exam, including 2 versions of the final exam topology.

4. CCDP ARCH

Self-made BGP Route Reflectors and Confederations lab

5. CCNP-Security FIREWALL

Self-made lab, with ASAs and ASDM.

6. CCNP-SP SPADVROUTE

Self-made IPv6 MP-BGP, DHCPv6 and IPv6 Multicast labs.

7. CCNP-SP SPEDGE

Self-made DMVPN Phase II lab.

8. CCNP-SP SPROUTE

Self-made CSR 1000V EIGRP and L3 EtherChannel labs

A few tips:

The ➣ latest GNS3 version is out,

I have setup➣

PPA

PPA &

DR repositories that should come in handy if you respectively use the latest Ubuntu or

Debian release and you need to keep up with the latest releases of packages, which are not available on the

official Canonical-Ubuntu repositories:

✔ GNS3

✔ KVM

✔ Wireshark

✔ many more

You might want to watch some tutorials on Youtube on how to start with GNS3,➣

You'll need to ➣ bring your own images:

✔ IOS (mostly 3640, 3725 and 7200) images for some dynamips nodes,

✔ Licensed images (except for NX-OSv-9k) can be imported from within VIRL as qemu nodes :

✔ IOSv,

✔ IOSv-L2,

✔ CSR-1000v

✔ NX-OSv

✔ IOS-XRv

✔ IOS-XRv-9k

✔ ASAv

✔ Free images are available here:

• CSR 1000V: free IOS-XE 3.14 image

• IOSv: free IOS 15.4 image

All the ancient labs topology.net are loadable as is by GNS3 up to version 0.8.7 and will be ➣

automatically converted to a new format (<project name>.gns3) with version 1.2.1+ up to 1.5.4. They

cannot be opened by versions 2.x.

All the <project name>.gns3 can be opened by GNS3 1.5.4 → 2.x.➣

All the topology.net and <project name>.gns3 can be loaded with GNS3 / Windows.➣

All the topology-linux.net and <project name>-linux.gns3 can be loaded with GNS3 / Linux➣

There is no need to “import project” in most recent 2.1+ gns3 releases. Opening the .gns3 project file is ➣

enough to be converted into 2.x format.

All the VPCS hosts configurations can be loaded with PCn.cfg➣ ; for example, PC1 configuration is loaded

with PC1.cfg.

➣ All Qemu project files (located in <project name>/project-files/qemu/<node-uuid>/hdx_disk.qcow2) are

based on a “backing file” (qemu node image file) with its path hard-coded into the hdx_disk.qcow2.

You may need to adapt the hard-coded path to your own environment with a script that I've provided

for Linux users: qemu-rebase-image-path-for-hdx-disk.qcow2.sh (read the script header for tutorial).

➣ My approach is different from gns3vault.com or other people making labs: there's no instructions (except for

TSHOOT labs); you're free to do whatever you need to do. You can try to start from scratch and configure all

devices to attain what is described in the lab, then look at the solutions – all my labs provide solutions; or

you can implement your ideas on top of it: whatever you feel is needed to prepare for your exam or to check

for your production network.

Some labs (other than mine) are included without solutions.➣

➣ You might also need to read “GNS3/CCNP/SWITCH/how to save all switches vlan.dat within GNS3” and

“GNS3/CCNP/SWITCH/Mysterious MAC Address Table Issue”: necessary for GNS3 up to 0.8.7.

If you have ➣ new labs to share on areas which are not already covered and allow others to practice them,

you can submit a Merge Request (=Github's PR Pull Request) at support@sdxlive.com. Don't hesitate to

shortly describe the area of the lab.

By the way, there are also a CCNP ROUTE v1 Summary and a CCNP SWITCH v1 Summary available.

Enjoy your study ;)

Jean-Christophe Manciot