Traffic control yee ha!  Not my favorite but nevertheless necessary.  We are all pretty tired from a long week of class but we can see the end now.  So far we have a 100% pass rate on the exam, although several were a little close to the no pass mark but after all, it is an advanced class right?  Last night we dined on SD Oyster Company in Dallas and I ate way too much.  

This has turned out to be an international class with one student from Indonesia, one for Columbia and one from Mexico.  Don't forget about East Texas!

Where did the time go?  It seems like we just introduced ourselves and now we are already half way through.  We worked on routing today, simple routes, OSPF and BGP.  BGP was my favorite as usual.  We set up a Quagga server on a Parallels VM and had the class router peer with it.  Then we all peered with the class routers and I advertised 75,000 routes to the students.  Several RB433's couldn't take the abuse and crashed but that was part of the fun.  Then we tested routing filters with BGP and OSPF to tame the 75,000 routes into a more manageable 8,000 /19 or larger routes.  Tomorrow is traffic control and we will finish that up on Friday with the final certification exam.