OSPF is a popular interior gateway protocol, frequently encountered by network engineers. Here's how to get it up and running in a network. Open shortest path first, or OSPF, is a routing protocol ...

Equal-cost multi-path allows a router to insert more than one path to a destination in the routing table to enable load balancing. Here's how ECMP works and how to configure it in OSPF. Equal-cost ...

Cisco recommends using AES-CBC for encryption and SHA1 for authentication to protect against performance risks to some of its Catalyst and ASR gear. To reduce the risk of service problems, Cisco is ...

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...

Even Jeff Doyle tells me that I should do a little blogging with OSPF. What’s a networker to do with that kind of backing? And a few others expressed some interest as well – in understanding LSAs ...