Creative Routing Contest

Well, we made it through the first CCNA scholarship and now it's time for something everybody can participate in again. For this one, a topology will be provided and it will be up to the contestants to configure the routers. The object is to use your creativity to get a packet to traverse every router in the topology before eventually arriving at the far end. The topology is simple, but the possible solutions are many.

Topology



Interface Configurations

R1 Config

R2 Config

R3 Config

R4 Config

R5 Config


Example Trace Route Output



Rules?

• After issuing the command "traceroute 10.1.6.1 source loopback 0" on R1, the resulting packets must cross all routers in the topology.
• The physical interfaces, topology, and pre-defined IP addressing can not be changed.
• ZIP your router config *CHANGES* and resulting traceroute and email them to steve at spish dot net. Include your forum username.
• The contest ends on 4/6/2011 at 2:00PM CST.

The Judges

• Steve - networking-forum.com
• Digitowel
• ristau5741
• Infinite - Broken Network
• mellowd - Darren's CCIE mission
• Vito_Corleone - AlwaysTheNetwork

Other Details

• Blog, Facebook, and tell your geeks friends about this. The more the merrier.
• Don't get your feelings hurt, this is just for fun.
• The rules and details of the contest can change at any time.

Prizes

• 1st Place - Any item from the site's swag store

• 2nd and 3rd Place - A sticker from the site's swag store

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Don't forget to use the Twitter and Facebook buttons above the announcement post. Thanks.

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Does the trace have to display each hop, or is the packet traversing the router/interface enough?

The hops need to show though not in any particular order.

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submitted

Got it bman. And at least 3 others. I will start posting these up in the separate judging forum today.

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Where is the judging forum?

Mordor.

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It's a hidden forum...for the judges.

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Oh no shit. I am out of it.

Can we submit multiple entries for multiple solutions (so long as they are distinct enough...)?

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Sure, submit as many as you'd like.

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I am curious if you could provide more guidance on what is being judged exactly? Sleekness? Simple implementation?

I suspect the judges (Vito) will go out on their own a bit, but the intention is to judge for creativity. Most of the submissions thus far have been very simple solutions. I personally would like to see somebody do this in a way that nobody else has thought of.

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when is the deadline to get entries in?

(Take a look at the first post.)

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Not the most efficient, just the most creative, complex, unnecessarily intricate method of making this work? The Microsoft way?

I want to be blown away

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That.

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hehe like that idea, might give it a try .-)

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