Reliable Static Routing
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Here’s a scenario I ran into long ago. We had several sites that had a frame relay link back to headquarters and a DSL line. Each link was terminated into a different router on a flat LAN with …
Routing
BGP Route-reflectors
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If you’re running iBGP, you may have run across this. What if you had three routers – R0, R1, R2 – that were running BGP under the same ASN, but R1 and R2 weren’t peered? Any …
EIGRP Basics
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I realized the other day that I haven’t mentioned EIGRP once. As a Cisco guy, I think I’m required to do at least one article on it, so here it goes. Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing …
HSRP vs. GLBP
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HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol) is a Cisco-proprietary method for supplying a highly-available gateway for hosts to use. GLBP (Gateway Load Balancing Protocol) does the same thing. So, what’s …