In any IGP there are a lot of timers involved in running the protocol. This post will not describe the hello and dead timers, these are well known. This post describes the less known timers that control how often packets
Conditional BGP advertisement with advertise-map
This post will describe how to do conditional advertising with BGP. In a real life scenario this can be used to only announce routes to your backup provider when your primary link is down. In a lab scenario this can
Integrated Routing and Bridging
Sorry for the lack of updates lately but I spent the whole last week skiing and recharging my batteries and now I’m back fully motivated to continue my path to the lab. This time we will be talking about Integrated
Lost in transit
I have registered a domain for my blog. It is still hosted at WordPress but I wanted an easier address to remember. From now on you can also reach my blog via http://lostintransit.se or http://www.lostintransit.se
Filtering RIP routes with an offset-list
As you all know RIP is a distance vector routing protocol and that gives us a lot of options when doing filtering. This time we will look at a feature that is not widely known, the offset list. Assume that
Flash cards updated
I have updated the flashcards with some questions on FHRP, Syslog, EEM, ZBF and NTP. There is over 200 questions in the bank now. As usual download the file from here.
OSPF lab notes
This post is based on notes from my practicing OSPF vol1 labs. I want to have them saved for later reference but I also think that this post can help others and clear some of the confusions of OSPF. Lets
Saving time on lab tasks
This post will show how you can save time on the lab tasks. Assume you need to complete this OSPF task. Advertise the Loopback0 interfaces of R1, R2, R3 and R4 into OSPF area 0 Advertise the Loopback0 interface of
CCIE command memorizer review
This is a review of the CCIE command memorizer. Firstly, I did not pay anything for the product, David let me try it out so I could write a blogpost about it and he has a chance to respond to
Private VLANs updated
I found an error in my post about private VLANS in the picture of the traffic flow. PC’s that are located in the same community VLAN do have forwarding at layer 2 without going through a router. I have updated