Labnario Huawei From Scratch

Useful information for those who think or want to pass Huawei certification. A session about HCIE certification process and exam contents by Nigel Roy.

To understand how PIM DM works, just look at control messages generated.

Let’s take topology from the last lab:

After PIM DM is configured on interfaces between neighbors, both devices periodically send HELLO messages to each other, to discover neighbors and maintain the neighbor relationship:

NAP is a Huawei proprietary protocol, which implements remote configuration in Layer 3 networks. It allows to log into an unconfigured device from a directly connected device. It is very simple and can be really helpful, when implementing new devices. NAP establishes a temporary neighbor relationship between configured and unconfigured devices. Both must be directly connected through a physical link. When NAP relationship is established, telnet can be done to the unconfigured device.

NAP relationship can be established in two different ways:

• Automatically – using IP addresses allocated by the system
• Statically – using IP addresses allocated by the administrator.

NAP cannot be used on interfaces, configured with commands affecting the IP address configuration or IP packet forwarding, such as commands related to VPNs or Ethernet trunks.

How to use NAP? Let’s assume that we have two switches as in the picture below:

1. Configure IP addresses based on the above topology (omitted).
2. Use OSPF to assure connectivity between switches.
3. Enable multicast on both switches.
4. Enable PIM DM on all interfaces.
5. Address of multicast group G: 225.1.1.1.
6. Address of multicast group S: 10.10.10.100.

OSPF configuration:

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