I have only a fairly basic understanding of networking, and am particularly light on understanding of routing, so looking for a little help from the Ars collective on this issue I have. At my place of ...

So I've been messing around in GNS3 and created a topology which isn't quite working: Now, obviously this is a discontiguous network (I'm messing around to try and make stuff work when it ordinarily ...

Even if you work in an OSPF shop, most people don’t look OSPF database every day. Most people don’t think about the cost of OSPF routes by thinking about what LSAs the SPF algorithm examines to find ...

I ran into Tony Hain at NANOG last week, and he told me he had gotten pounded with questions about IPv4 address exhaustion after my post discussing his and Geoff Huston’s studies. His response to them ...

http://ipexpert.ccieblog.com/ – OSPF is a topic that must be absolutely mastered for the CCIE lab exam. Many students understand the fundamental concepts, but get ...

Accomplished at Georgia Tech in Computer Science Department as class group project. Created five virtual machines using Virtual-Box and connected them through bridges and enabled communication among ...

In modern computer networks, the ability to manage traffic efficiently is essential to ensuring reliability, scalability, and seamless communication. The exponential growth of digital demands has made ...

Vgate v2.0 is a distributed router server which features OSPF and enhanced Vlan connectivity. Built on a wire-speed, two or four-port Ethernet, IP/IPX bridge/router, it is capable of creating Vlans ...

Supernetting was created as a way to solve the problem of routing tables growing beyond our current ability to manage the exhaustion of Class B network address space. Much like one area code ...

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