In a computer network, the transmission of data is based on the routing protocol which selects the best routes between any two nodes. Different types of routing protocols are applied to specific ...

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 ...

What do you folks prefer to use as your routing protocol?<BR><BR>EIGRP or OSPF<BR><BR>Why would you choose one over the other?<BR><BR><BR>Allow me to get this started:<BR>If I have an all Cisco ...

A complex routing protocol that shares information with other routers in order to determine the best path. IS-IS was the first comprehensive link state protocol, and OSPF and NLSP evolved from it.

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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 ...

Networking is a fundamental aspect of modern computing, underpinning everything from small home offices to large enterprise data centers. For Linux system administrators and network engineers, a ...

What is Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD)? Why learn about it? Why use it? ….. This article is going to be a “beginning”… an “introduction” into Bidirectional Forwarding Detection. First we ...