LAB manual CCNP4

Therefore, cable your pod of four routers and one switch with the connections
shown.
The Cisco Networking Academy Program intends to provide access to Cisco’s
Pagent toolset for these labs. The Pagent toolset functions on top of the typical
Cisco IOS image, but comes bundled with the IOS image. You will also need a
license key provided by Cisco for each individual router on which you intend to
use the Pagent-IOS image.
Download the Pagent-IOS image and copy it into R4’s flash memory. When
prompted, use the Machine ID that Pagent generates to retrieve your license
key.
The Quality of Service (QoS) labs in the ONT curriculum suggest that you use
Pagent’s TGN traffic generation tool to test the QoS tools implemented in each
lab. The authors have designed two basic topologies to be used for connectivity
to the traffic generator on R4.
You will use the Basic Pagent Configuration primarily to test QoS tools in
isolation. Traffic is generated on R4’s Fast Ethernet 0/0 interface, which is
destined for R4’s Fast Ethernet 0/1 interface. The purpose being that traffic
traverses your topology from end to end so that you can observe bottlenecks.
The traffic may need to pass over Ethernet VLANs or point-to-point serial links
before arriving back at R4. The IOS configurations for R4, with which you
should begin each of the labs that use the Basic Pagent Configuration, are
provided in ONT Lab 3.1: Preparing for QoS. Figure 2-1 illustrates the general
description of the Basic Pagent Configuration, while Figure 2-2 illustrates a
specific example of how the Basic Pagent Configuration could be applied in a
single-router network topology.
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