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Routing and Switching: Expert

Design resilient routing with failure simulation, route filtering, observability, and change rollback.

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Audience

  • Self-paced technical learners
  • Instructor-led cohorts
  • Enterprise teams preparing staff for hands-on operations

Prerequisites

  • Intermediate course or equivalent production experience
  • Comfort with troubleshooting and design tradeoffs

Outcomes

  • Provision an isolated routing and switching lab from template metadata.
  • Use snapshots, rollback, validation checks, and teardown safely.
  • Explain how FRRouting, Containerlab, Linux fit into an enterprise training environment.
  • Produce evidence that an instructor or admin can review.
Course plan

Modules and labs

Each module maps to provisioned lab work, validation evidence, reset/rollback policy, and instructor visibility.

Module 1

Production architecture

Routing and Switching Expert lab 1
Module 2

Failure simulation and hardening

Routing and Switching Expert lab 2
Module 3

Automation, DR, and capstone

Routing and Switching Expert capstone
Required templates

Routing/switching simulation node

defined

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS plus FRRouting/Containerlab

TODO: Add EVE-NG/GNS3 only if licensing permits; FRRouting/Containerlab is the default.

Ubuntu Server 24.04

available

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS cloud image

Validation checks

Routing path works

Traffic follows the intended lab path and reaches the expected service.

Linux SSH reachable

SSH handshake succeeds with the issued short-lived credential.