---

This post will be continuously updated with my short notes under each concept. It's not meant to be a replacement of the official training materials. I'm just starting out playing with the vRouter Core / open source version and installing it in a VM and set up some networks and firewalls is probably one of the best way to learn this. Learn by doing!

The Brocade Certified vRouter Engineer 2013 exam has these objectives:

Brocade Vyatta vRouter System Operations

• Describe show command system usage
• show - in operational mode shows status of components
• show - in configurational mode shows the configurations
• run show -  in configurational mode shows status of components
• Identify key CLI operations
• set/delete
• copy (configs)
• renew (new dhcp IP)
• install (to disk)
• Describe the commit and save processes

Ethernet Concepts

• Identify Ethernet operations
• Identify VLAN operations and settings
• set interface ethernet eth0 vif vlanid # this creates eth0.vlanid a subinterface. This looks like a normal ethernet interface.
• set interface pseudo-ethernet # these can be used if you want to set the MAC-address. Some features are not allowed for these peth devices though (VLAN, bonding).
• Identify bonded interface operations
• Two NICs on the same network
• set interface bonding (IP address, mode)
• set interface ethernet (bond-group)
• Demonstrate knowledge of configuration and operation using show commands

TCP/IP

• Demonstrate knowledge of the relationship between Layer 2, IP and TCP/IP
• Identify TCD and UDP differences
• Identify address subnets

DHCP and DNS Troubleshooting

bcvre-brocade-certified-virtual-router-engineer I'm going through how to set it up.

• Describe troubleshooting of DHCP operations
• show dhcp server leases
• show log dhcp
• Describe troubleshooting of DNS forwarding
• monitor dns forwarding # I could not get anything into the log)
• show dns forwarding # shows cache size for example)

Routing

bcvre-brocade-certified-virtual-router-engineer went through how to set up static routes

• Identify uses for routing
• Identify show commands for use with routing
• Identify configuration of different types of static routes

Firewalls

• Describe firewall operations and troubleshooting using show commands
• Describe firewall rulebase operations
• set firewall name name default-action
• set firewall name name rule 1 destination/source
• set firewall name name rule 1 action action
• set interface bonding bond0 firewall in/local/out name name
  • in - into the router (matching on destination IP)
  • out - out from the router  (matching on source IP)
  • local - to the router itself

NAT

• Describe NAT concepts

Upgrades

• Describe the Brocade Vyatta upgrade process
• 1. Install 6.5R1 to disk.
• 2. add system image URL
• 3. reboot
• It is also possible to copy the config elsewhere and reinstall

Logging and Packet Captures

• Identify logging options for firewall and NAT operations
• set firewall name name rule num log enable
• commit; exit
• monitor firewall .. # and see matches to the rule.
• Identify methods to verify operations and troubleshooting

OSPF Single-Area

bcvre-brocade-certified-virtual-router-engineer set up an area 0 OSPF

• Describe OSPF show command output
• Describe how to configure OSPF