So we have the first 5 days completed now and it is time for some relaxing in the weekend and a bit of labbing as well. So far it has been great. Brian Dennis is both a great teacher and
INE – 10 day bootcamp
Hey guys, On sunday I’m leaving for London. I’m attending INEs 10 day bootcamp. Hopefully this will be the next step in my studies. I hope to learn a lot and to meet a few new buddies as well. I’m
Route redistribution – Route-maps and tagging
Earlier I have done some posts on route redistribution and on route filtering in different protocols. I wanted to expand on this by showing different ways we can tag and do filtering with route-maps when doing route redistribution. We start
BGP – local-as command
The neighbor local-as command is a useful command when doing AS migration or merging. Many people get confused by the optional arguments of this command. As we all know the AS-path is a well known mandatory attribute of the BGP
100k views – Thanks for visiting!
This site just hit 100 000 visitors! I have been blogging for roughly 2 years now and I never expected the site to grow to the size that it has today. Unfortunately I don’t have the CCIE yet but I
RIP – request and response packets
I was discussing the other day with someone on IRC about a RIP issue he had. Apparently he had RIP request packets coming in and then all routers were responding with response packets with full routing table. It seemed like
RIP MD5 authentication – mismatch in key ID
This is an interesting fact I just found out. When we configure MD5 authentication for RIP they key-ID and key-string must match, this is well known. But what happens if we actually configure the wrong key-ID? Take a look at
OSPF – Use of forwarding address
In OSPF and other routing protocols we have something called forwarding address. This can be used to route traffic in another direction than to the router that originated the LSA. We start with the following topology. It’s a basic OSPF