On 7 Aug 2011, at 15:24, marc abel wrote:

>>> -the acl specifies deny host Fe80::6 host FF02::9 and is applied on R5
>>> how is that supposed to block routing traffic from R6?
> 
> How does Rip send it's updates? It multicasts them to reserved
> addresses. In IPv4 this is 224.0.0.9, but what is it in IPv6? FF02::9.
> So your access list is blocking multicast traffic sourced from R6 to
> the multicast address. Since the access list is configured on R5, R6
> will still be sending them, R5 will just ignore them.

Got it. I thought of FF02::9 as FE80::9, i.e. the actual host address of R9.
> 
> So now R5 isn't going to get these routes at all, however R7 will. R7
> will not advertise them to R5 however because it is on the same subnet
> it learned them on. If we disable split horizon on R7 then it can
> advertise them back to R5. Now R5 receives them from R7 and not from
> R6. Task complete.

I think i get that. Need to do some more reading on basic split horizon i'm 
afraid.
> 
>>> What do they mean by the statement, "depending on the link of the backbone 
>>> connection you may want go get clarification as to whether the backbone has 
>>> the same speed interface as your device."
>>> 
>>> Why is that relevant? The backbone is connected by ethernet, i'm sure i 
>>> would get a duplex error mismatch if it would be set wrong. I just don't 
>>> see how it ties into the question.
> 
> 
> Int f0/1
> speed 100
> duplex full
> bandwidth 10000
> 
> Which speed will the interface use for QOS? Will you see that in a
> duplex mismatch?
> 

I am not sure. I suppose the bandwidth statement. No you will not see that, but 
i still don't realise why that is important for the QOS to function? 100% of 
anything is still 100%.
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 7, 2011 at 7:50 AM, Alef <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Dear diary, 2 questions and then i'll leave you in peace for today :-)
>>> 
>>> Vol2, Lab8, Task 8.2
>>> 
>>> -the acl specifies deny host Fe80::6 host FF02::9 and is applied on R5
>>> how is that supposed to block routing traffic from R6?
>>> 
>>> Anyway i can imagine that would us to see now R7 in the routing table, but 
>>> what is up with the split horizon disabling on r7? All that allows is that 
>>> R7 can now send R5 and R6 routes back to them. Split horizon is still on 
>>> R6. How does turning it off on R7 make R7 the next-hop router.
>>> 
>>> Bit confused here as to what that would accomplish.
>>> 
>>> Vol2, Lab8, Task 9.2
>>> 
>>> What do they mean by the statement, "depending on the link of the backbone 
>>> connection you may want go get clarification as to whether the backbone has 
>>> the same speed interface as your device."
>>> 
>>> Why is that relevant? The backbone is connected by ethernet, i'm sure i 
>>> would get a duplex error mismatch if it would be set wrong. I just don't 
>>> see how it ties into the question.
>>> 
>>> Thanks as always,
>> 
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