Post Views: 3,275 MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching) is often regarded as one of the most elegant service provider networking technologies after TCP/IP itself because it solved several big problems introduced in the late 1990s (and I got to be part of that): For service providers, this was game-changing. Many argue that without MPLS, the explosion […]
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Post Views: 6,083 In a recent class I was asked for some details on BGP Autonomous System (AS or ASN) Numbers. I thought I would document and provide a more complete answer here for others to learn from as well. What is the AS Number? Let’s begin with a definition. An Autonomous System Number (AS
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Post Views: 2,271 I got this question the other day: “What does the BGP Next-Hop-Self command actually do?” It is a great question that I tried to answer in a brief description without success, and actually repeated my answer several times. It was clear to me that my answer was not being understood in terms
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Post Views: 2,119 Check out these additional Routing Resources: Our IP Routing course at Udemy Our Custom Profiles for Wireshark Classes at the Online School In a recent course on IPv6, one of my students asked what the “network” command did as we were beginning to study the routing commands used in Cisco IOS when
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Post Views: 4,820 For those of you who love Wireshark and are supporting BGP, we would like to offer a great default profile for basic BGP. Consider for a moment what would be important in your network administration in basic BGP: All this would be a great starting point. Profiles are one of the most
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Post Views: 1,386 The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) allows internal and external networks or autonomous systems (AS’s) to exchange routes. BGP is a path-vector routing protocol, which simply means that its job is to exchange routing information between autonomous systems to find the most efficient path for your data to the Internet. Each BGP router
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Post Views: 1,565 When a router learns multiple routes to a specific network via multiple routing processes (or routing protocols, such as RIP, RIPv2, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF), it installs the route with the lowest administrative distance in the routing table. Load balancing is a standard functionality of the router software, and is available across
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