Network Engineers are always looking for new ways to gain some low-cost network testing capabilities. Few companies sufficiently fund networking labs for their networking teams to learn on prior to ...

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 ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

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 ...

“DNS is down and nothing is working!” is not something anyone ever wants to hear at 3am. Virtually every service on a modern network depends on DNS to function. When DNS goes down, you can't send mail ...

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 ...