Labnario - Huawei From Scratch

how to change the size of the history command buffer

10 Mar, 2014 General 0

I spent last week skiing in Polish winter capital – Zakopane. You probably noticed that I didn’t post any new article but weather was wonderful and I had no motivation to turn on my notebook ;).

As plenty of things, after my vacation, keeping me busy, today a short post about command buffer size.

By default the size of the history command buffer is 10. This means that last 10 commands entered by the user can be stored on the memory and repeated using the CLI “↑” key. The range of the command buffer can be tuned and its range is 0 to 256.

L2TP LAC-auto-initiated tunnel mode

27 Feb, 2014 VPN 0

Layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) connection can be established in the following tree modes:

NAS-initializated
Client-initializated
LAC-auto-initializated.

This is not my job to tell you about the theory. You can find plenty of information about L2TP on the internet. Let’s focus today on the third mode.

In most cases, an L2TP user directly dials up to a LAC, and only connection is established between the user and LAC. Unlike NAS and Client-initializated modes, in LAC-auto-initializated mode users can connect to the LAC by sending IP packets. At the same time LAC needs to have a PPP user created and a tunnel with the LNS established. The two ends of an L2TP tunnel reside on LAC and LNS respectively. As you can see from the topology below, in LAC-auto-initiated mode, LAN can be directly connected to LAC.

Let’s look how to configure L2TP on Huawei routers.

from Huawei CLI – user-interface current

24 Feb, 2014 Command Line 0

Sometimes we want to change any parameter of our current user interface quickly, let’s say terminal length or idle timeout, but we don’t know which user interface we are currently using. To check that we use display user-interface command. Then we try to find the “+” mark in the command output, which means that this is our current user interface. After that we have to go back to our user interface configuration and change its parameters. Why not to do that in a quicker manner?

[labnario]display user-interface
  Idx  Type     Tx/Rx      Modem Privi ActualPrivi Auth  Int
  0    CON 0    9600       -     15    -           P     -
  33   AUX 0    9600       -     0     -           P     -  	

 + 34   VTY 0              -     0     3           A     -
  35   VTY 1               -     0     -           A     -
  36   VTY 2               -     0     -           A     -
  37   VTY 3               -     0     -           A     -
  38   VTY 4               -     0     -           A     -
  50   VTY 16              -     15    -           A     -
  51   VTY 17              -     15    -           A     -
  52   VTY 18              -     15    -           A     -
  53   VTY 19              -     15    -           A     -
  54   VTY 20              -     15    -           A     -
UI(s) not in async mode -or- with no hardware support:
1-32
  +    : Current UI is active.
  F    : Current UI is active and work in async mode.
  Idx  : Absolute index of UIs.
  Type : Type and relative index of UIs.
  Privi: The privilege of UIs.
  ActualPrivi: The actual privilege of user-interface.
  Auth : The authentication mode of UIs.
      A: Authenticate use AAA.
      N: Current UI need not authentication.
      P: Authenticate use current UI's password.
  Int  : The physical location of UIs.

In case we want to change any parameter of our current user terminal interface, without checking which user interface we are using, “current” option for the user-interface command can be used.

Let’s look at VTY configuration:

BGP MED attribute on Huawei router

20 Feb, 2014 IP Routing 0

Some time ago I published article about BGP local preference attribute. Today I’d like to show you how to configure BGP MED attribute.

What is it for?

The multi-exit discriminator MED determines an optimal route for incoming traffic of an AS. When a BGP device obtains multiple routes to the same destination but with different next hops from EBGP peers, the BGP device selects the route with the smallest MED value as the optimal route. Simply saying, configuring MED attribute, we would like to show the next hop for traffic coming from EBGP peer. The MED attribute is exchanged only between two neighboring ASs. The AS that receives the MED attribute does not advertise it to any other ASs.

Let’s look at typical scenario for MED attribute configuration:

assigning multiple IP addresses to network interface

17 Feb, 2014 How To 0

Why might we want to assign multiple IP addresses to the same interface? The following are the most common scenarios:

hosts in the network segment use IP addresses on different networks
there are not enough host addresses on a logical network segment, suppose a /24 address space and 300 hosts

How to configure multiple IP addresses on Huawei devices?

Let’s configure a pair of routers connected via a Gigabit Ethernet link and use four different logical networks.

[labnarioR1]int gi 0/0/0
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 192.168.12.1 255.255.255.0
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 10.0.12.1 255.255.255.0 sub
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 10.0.22.1 255.255.255.0 sub
[labnarioR1-GigabitEthernet0/0/0]ip add 10.0.32.1 255.255.255.0 sub