"situational awareness" - 'awareness of the situation', knowledge and awareness of the environment.
For the scope of the lab, beyond the task itself, you should be aware of what section you are in and what you are asked to do. Since this task is specifically in the BGP section, the conclusion that should be drawn is that this is referring specifically to BGP, not OSPF to OSPF information. Asking the proctor for clarification would be recommended, if you are unsure is always recommended. Had this section been under OSPF, then possibly filtering between the two routers would be the direction to take. Marvin Greenlee, CCIE #12237 (R&S, SP, Sec) Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert, Inc. Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 Fax: +1.810.454.0130 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Progress or excuses, which one are you making? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Suresh Mishra Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 3:56 PM To: OSL CCIE Routing and Switching Lab Exam Subject: [OSL | CCIE_RS] VOL2-LAB9-task-4.2 Hell all, In this section R2 is redistributing OSPF into BGP and is advertising it to R6. At the same time, R2 and R6 are ospf neighbors and are advertising ospf routes to each other. Now there is a question in this section that reads as follows. "R6 should not receive any routes from R2 that are from the ospf domain. No network statements are allowed.". After reading this question, I used "ip ospf database" filter command and filtered all the LSA's that were send to R6 from R2 as I was not allowed to use network statement that would allow me to disable OSPF on the interface. However, P.G uses a solution where it filtered OSPF routes that were redistributed into BGP. I think this question wants us to not have the ospf routes propagated to the OSPF neighbors via BGP routes. I think this question needs one simple modification. Instead of saying "any ospf routes" that includes OSPF routes only (as per the English language understanding), Instead it should say BGP routes. That means it should read something like this. "R6 should not receive any BGP routes from R2 that are from the ospf domain. No network statements are allowed" I know there will always be a language issue with CCIE. But I think making something difficult by using a language twist makes it more confusing than technically challenging. Thanks Suresh
