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🚀 New Free SONiC Hands-On Lab: DHCP Relay Configuration

How do DHCP clients receive an IP address when the DHCP Server is located in a different network?

We're excited to introduce a new Hands-On Lab in Module 5: DHCP Relay Configuration.

In this Enterprise SONiC Hands-On Lab, you'll configure DHCP Relay in a simple linear topology consisting of:

🖥️ 1 x DHCP Client
🔀 1 x Layer 3 SONiC Switch (acting as DHCP Relay)
🐧 1 x DHCP Server

Your task is to configure the Layer 3 switch so DHCP requests are forwarded to a remote DHCP Server, allowing clients to obtain their IP addresses dynamically.

During the lab you will:
✅ Configure IP addresses on SONiC interfaces
✅ Configure DHCP Relay on the correct interface
✅ Verify that the Management interface successfully receives an IP address via DHCP
✅ Practice using the SONiC CLI in a real networking scenario

Whether you're preparing for production deployments or expanding your Enterprise SONiC skills, this lab provides practical experience with one of the most common Layer 3 services in modern networks.

🔗 https://route2open.com/sonic-linux-hands-on-lab-module-5/

Our free Lab just got a major 🚀

Our goal: hands-on with SONiC in minutes, not hours.

Whether you're learning, evaluating, or automating — this lab has you covered.

What's new? 🔥

➡️ Two deployment options: a complete VM (GNS3 + pre-built data center topology + Ansible server) or project-only import into your existing GNS3 server.

⚙️ Built-in Ansible automation – ready-to-use playbooks to configure multiple SONiC switches at once.

🔐 Zero Touch Provisioning – automated device onboarding with SSH key authentication from day one.

Practice real-world scenarios:
✅ BGP • VXLAN • EVPN • SAG • HA & failover

No hardware. No setup from scratch. Just download and start testing Enterprise SONiC.

🔗 Grab it free: https://route2open.com/test-sonic/

Break it. Automate it. Rebuild it. That's how you learn SONiC.

You know the fundamentals. Now choose what's next.

Quick question: what breaks your day more often — a routing issue you can't trace, or a security config you're not sure about?

That answer matters. Because we're building the Advanced Enterprise SONiC Training, and you decide what's in it.

Five tracks on the table:

🔧 Advanced Debugging & Troubleshooting
🔒 Securing Your SONiC Switch
🏗️ Designing Your Underlay Network
🔀 Managing Multihomed Hosts
🌐 Routing Between Layer 3 VPNs

We build what you need. Not what we assume.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6UniYAeVI14

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Most votes get built first.
👇 Drop your pick in the comments. Or tell us what's missing. If there's a topic you want covered, we want to know.

Know a SONiC engineer who'd want a say? Tag them.

⚡ is becoming the leading open NOS of the AI era.

Can your team run it?

The numbers back it up:

SONiC is the leading open-source network OS for AI workloads, and analysts project SONiC-based switching to pass $5B in 2026 on its way to $8B in 2027 — growing 25%+ a year.

The hardware is ready. The market is moving. The skills gap is the bottleneck.

That's what our Enterprise SONiC Linux Bootcamp closes.

📅 Next session: June 23–26 — 4 days, live and remote, 09:00–16:00 CET

Led by Scheel — ~30 years in network engineering, hundreds of SONiC engineers trained

Hands-on from day one. You build a real topology and grow it:

➡️ Day 1 - Install & configure SONiC, interfaces, IP, LLDP
➡️ Day 2 - MC-LAG, VLANs, BGP, automation with Ansible
➡️ Day 3 - Layer 2/3 VPNs with VXLAN & EVPN
➡️ Day 4 - Port Access Control & ACLs

Walk out a Certified SONiC System Administrator on Enterprise SONiC — ready to install, configure, automate, and troubleshoot in production.

is the direction. is the skill.

🔗 Reserve your seat: https://route2open.com/enterprise-sonic-bootcamp/

🚨 NOW LIVE: Hands-On for Module 7 🚨

Interface Troubleshooting, Packet Drop Analysis & Tech-Support Log Generation ⚡

This lab is designed for engineers who want real-world Enterprise SONiC experience — the kind gained by identifying failures, analyzing packet drops, generating tech-support logs, and solving problems under pressure.

Inside Module 7 you’ll work through:
➡️ Interface troubleshooting
➡️ Packet drop analysis
➡️ Tech-support log generation
➡️ Real operational scenarios engineers face in production environments

Every Hands-On Lab in our Enterprise SONiC Linux course is 100% FREE. 🔥
The is open.
The is waiting. ⚡

🔗 https://route2open.com/sonic-linux-hands-on-lab-module-7/