Route 1-0 Remote Labs
Price: $860 USD
Lab Time: 5 days (Monday to Friday)
Number of pods as part of the topology: 4
Recommended number of students per pod: 2
Total recommended number of students: 8
Lab Layout
The Route remote lab equipment for a single student pod consists of the following:
: 4 2811 ISR Routers,
: 2 Layer3 Switches
In addition, there are 3 common routers and a BB Switch that are connected to all pods as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Pod lab topology
All routers are Cisco ISR 2811 with Advanced IP Services IOS software.
Figure 2: Instructor Backbone lab topology
Access to the Lab Devices
Access to the Remote Lab is gained through the following URL:
Summary of Content Changes in Individual Exercises
Compared to the original lab exercises, the remote lab exercises are functionally equivalent. Instructors should note that there is no need for any VPN connection to a remote lab as all devices are accessed from www.livelabs.co.uk . All labs can be performed from within the remote lab environment.
Instructors should note the following:
Delegates should be informed that they can create alias commands to help load files from flash into the startup-config of the devices. Instructors should inform their delegates that they should reload their pod devices after issuing the appropriate lab copy or alias command.
Sample Alias commands: substitute ‘x’ for router number
It was noted that the ‘configure replace’ command did not execute correctly consistently during testing. If students find this to be the case it is recommended that student copy from the Route directory the appropriate file.
Navigating Flash Example:
Router#dir
Directory of flash:/
2 -rw- 43877520 Mar 26 2008 17:31:30 -07:00 c2800nm-adventerprisek9_ivs-mz.124-1 1.T3.bin
3 drw- 0 Apr 11 2002 05:17:56 -07:00 route
18 drw- 0 Mar 1 2002 23:34:38 -08:00 tshoot
35 drw- 0 Jul 9 2010 08:48:22 -07:00 switch
63881216 bytes total (19677184 bytes free)
Router#cd route
Router#dir
Directory of flash:/route/
4 -rw- 1336 Apr 8 2010 15:06:08 -07:00 R1-lab32.txt
5 -rw- 1651 Apr 8 2010 16:06:52 -07:00 R1-lab33.txt
6 -rw- 1728 Apr 8 2010 16:59:52 -07:00 R1-lab34.txt
7 -rw- 1733 Apr 8 2010 17:23:16 -07:00 R1-lab35.txt
8 -rw- 1327 Apr 9 2010 11:45:38 -07:00 R1-lab41.txt
9 -rw- 1009 Apr 9 2010 12:06:30 -07:00 R1-lab51.txt
10 -rw- 1102 Apr 9 2010 12:52:06 -07:00 R1-lab61.txt
11 -rw- 1160 Apr 9 2010 13:39:58 -07:00 R1-lab62.txt
12 -rw- 1570 Apr 6 2010 14:26:02 -07:00 R1-lab11.txt
13 -rw- 1006 Apr 9 2010 11:14:02 -07:00 R1-lab21.txt
14 -rw- 1228 Apr 7 2010 11:27:12 -07:00 R1-lab22.txt
15 -rw- 1083 Apr 7 2010 16:17:30 -07:00 R1-lab23.txt
16 -rw- 1702 Apr 7 2010 16:41:28 -07:00 R1-lab24.txt
17 -rw- 1130 Apr 8 2010 09:50:38 -07:00 R1-lab31.txt
Navigating Flash(example):
Router#cd Route (takes you into Route directory)
Router#pwd (tells you which directory you are in)
Router#dir (lists what is in the directory)
Router#cd (takes you back one directory level)
Router#pwd (tells you which directory you are in)
Router#dir (lists what is in the directory)
Once delegates have navigated into the route directory they can use the standard ‘copy flash start’ command to replace the appropriate lab files into nvram.
The ISP/BBone and Frame-Relay routers have files located directly in the root of flash as these 3745 series routers do not support a directory structure in flash. Should instructors need to reload configurations the startup files will be found in flash and a copy flash:baseline-cfg start will reload the configuration.
Password Recovery:
Password recovery is supported via Livelabs.co.uk – the break sequence that was tested uses 'Shift + break'.
Students can use the break sequence as mentioned above at any stage if the config-register is set to 0x2002. This config-register setting allows ‘break’ at any point in the CLI. Once the students realize that a password recovery is needed the instructor can inform the students of this feature and the student will be able to initiate the recovery procedure from the ‘user’ prompt.