by Ted Haubein | Jan 1, 2015 | Routing
Virtual Route Forwarding or VRF’s is vitalization feature much like those used with VLAN’s. As a VLAN takes care of logical segmentation or isolation at Layer 2 VRF’s allow for logical segmentation at Layer 3. This becomes increasingly important when...
by Ted Haubein | Dec 23, 2014 | Cryptography, Routing
There is always the consideration for securing or authenticating the Control Plan between routing protocols and RIP is no exception. RIPv1 doesn’t support authentication, however RIPv2 supports both clear text and Message Digest 5 or MD5 authentication. Just to...
by Ted Haubein | Nov 1, 2014 | Routing
In most cases NAT translation is going to handled by the Corporate Firewall, but there certain situations or scenarios that lend themselves to creating NAT translations directly off a Router. One situation that comes to mind might call for the need to translate...
by Ted Haubein | Oct 8, 2014 | Routing
OSPF EIGRP Administrative Distance = 110 Administrative Distance = 90 Routes advertised by multiple routing protocol lowest AD wins Routes advertised by multiple routing protocol lowest AD wins Layer 4 Protocol = 89 Layer 4 Protocol = 88 Process ID’s are...
by Ted Haubein | Sep 14, 2014 | Routing, Switching
The importance of accurate time on a network reaches so many different things the simplest of which is logging date and time stamps. The practice of keeping all network equipment time synchronized throughout an enterprise network is probably the most basic of task,...
by Ted Haubein | Sep 8, 2014 | Routing, Switching
Embedded Packet Capture or EPC gives you the ability to capture packets flowing through the Router, and from the Switch. After the capture is complete it can be analyzed locally by saving or capture off box via exporting so you can analysis using your favorite tool...
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