Project 3 - Router Configuration Using Zebra: Configure a Private Network (due date: before class 10/19/06)

This is a group project. Please form a group of 2-4 students. The lab will be graded based on the demo and the oral exam taken at the demo.

The network lab has 9 Linux boxes, grouped in 4 subnets. This assignment involves using Zebra (a routing software, see http://www.zebra.org for more information) to convert a regular linux box into a router. In theory, you can choose to use either distance vector based routing protocol such as RIP or link state based routing such as OSPF. The goal for this lab practice is, after you launch the Zebra software on each router with proper configuration, the routing table should be automatically established for all subnets, and you have all connectivity among every pair of hosts, i.e., you can ping each other.

Requirements:

• You will be given the sample configuration files for using OSPF and RIP.
• At the demo, you will be given a corrupted private network. A corrupted network refers to the fact that not every computer can ping every other. It is either because of incorrect network configuration, incorrect physical connection, incorrect zebra configuration file. Starting from this corrupted network, you need to modify whatever you can to make the network back to function. You will be given a reference network topology at the demo.
• Make sure that you copy your configuration files (mainly ospfd.conf, ripd.conf) on a floppy disk and delete the file you created on the computers so that different groups don't copy each other's work.

References:

• zebra notes
• A sample configuration file using OSPF
• A sample configuration file using RIP (not available now)
• RIP configuration reference
• Network Lab Configuration