OSPF is one of the protocols where the details are very important. It has lots of bits and pieces to make it run in a proper way. I have described the forwarding address in an earlier post and this time
Some important details of BGP
We start out with a basic topopology of 3 routers. R2 and R3 will peer to each others loopback. I have setup OSPF for full reachability in the network. First we test connectivity. R2#ping 3.3.3.3 so lo0 Type escape sequence
INE 10 day bootcamp – Review
I’m back from London and it’s been a great experience. Many readers are interested in what the bootcamp is like. It is a big investment to go for so it is understandable that you want to know if it will
INE 10 day bootcamp – First 5 days done
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