Campus Network Design and Operations (CNDO)
The goal of the Campus Network Design and Operations course is to teach configuration of switching (layer 2) and routing (layer 3) according to campus best practices.
The CNDO lab topology contains six virtual campuses, so the class is expected to be divided into six groups.
Each campus has:
- A border router (bdr1)
- A core switch/router (core1)
- Two building distribution switches (dist1-b1/b2)
- Four edge switches (edge1/2-b1/2)
- A server (srv1)
In addition, there are two "transit" routers which provide the uplinks to the campus: transit1-nren and transit2-nren. The second is currently not used, but exists in case you wish to make some simple multi-homing exercises.
Files
You will need the following files:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
hosts-cndo-nmm |
/etc/hosts file to go on the server |
index-cndo.html |
student navigation page to go in e.g. /var/www/html/index.html |
cndo-<version>.gns3project |
the GNS3 project |
vios-adventerprisek9-m.vmdk.SPA.157-3.M3 |
IOSv image |
vios_l2-adventerprisek9-m.SSA.high_iron_20180619.qcow2 |
IOSvL2 image |
ubuntu-16.04-server-cloudimg-amd64-disk1-20191002.1.img |
Ubuntu Cloud image |
cndo-srv1-campus<N>-hdb-<version>.img (x 6) |
cloud-init configs for srv1 in each campus |
Device software
The border routers and the NREN transit routers run IOSv with 384MB RAM. The remaining switches run IOSvL2 with 512MB RAM.
Note that IOSvL2 currently does not support OSPFv3, so the exercises are now using IS-IS instead.
srv1 is a completely vanilla Ubuntu Cloud image, with no extra software installed, and configured to use 512MB of RAM. It may be useful as a ping/traceroute endpoint, or for simple Linux exercises.
The total memory allocation of all the devices is 27GB. You can save a little RAM by turning off transit2-nren. There should still be enough RAM to run the NOC.
Backbone addressing plan
| IP Address | DNS Name |
|---|---|
| 100.64.0.2 | transit1-nren.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.3 | transit2-nren.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.10 | srv1.campus1.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.20 | srv1.campus2.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.30 | srv1.campus3.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.40 | srv1.campus4.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.50 | srv1.campus5.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.60 | srv1.campus6.ws.nsrc.org |
| 100.64.0.254 | transit-nren.ws.nsrc.org (on transit1-nren) |
See the training materials for the addressing plan used inside the network.
Credentials
These passwords are shared with the students:
| Device | Username | Password | Enable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student routers | cndlab |
lab-PW |
lab-EN |
| Student srv1 | sysadm |
nsrc+ws |
(In the initial state "00-blank", the student routers are unconfigured)
The instructor logins are not shared with the students:
| Device | Username | Password | Enable |
|---|---|---|---|
| transit1/2 | nsrc |
nsrc-PW |
nsrc-EN |
The cndlab / lab-PW login also works on these devices, so that students
can inspect the state of the infrastructure, e.g. show ip int brief, although
they will not know the enable password.
Snapshots
There are pre-generated snapshots for many different stages of the lab.
These may be useful if you want to draw a session to a close and force all
configs onto a known good working state. Snapshots are named l2-* for
earlier (layer 2) exercises, and l3-* for the later (layer 3) exercises.
Normally a CNDO class starts with the routers and switches completely unconfigured. You can reset to this state using the "l2-0-blank" snapshot (note that the NREN transit routers are configured in this snapshot)
You can restore to any given snapshot using Edit > Manage Snapshots in the
GNS3 client. Beware that when you restore from a snapshot it will reset
all of the devices - including the Linux servers - and you will also lose
any changes you've made to the network topology itself. This is useful if
you've accidentally deleted a device!
Use the gns3man tool if you want to restore the configuration of an
individual device.