CEF

by | Jul 22, 2014 | Routing, Switching

Cisco Express Forwarding or CEF is advanced, Layer 3 IP switching technology. CEF optimizes network performance and scalability for networks with large and dynamic traffic patterns, such as the Internet, on networks characterized by intensive Web-based applications,...

IGP Redistribution

by | Jul 12, 2014 | Routing

An interior gateway protocol or IGP such as RIP, or OSPF is basically any routing protocol running within an Autonomous System. The routing information or prefixes exchanged within the various Autonomous Systems can be used to populate the Layer 3 routing tables....

Using BGP Attributes

by | May 31, 2014 | Routing

Mandatory Well Known BGP Attributes There are three mandatory well known attributes that must be present on every update. These three well known attributes are propagated to other Neighbors. The discretionary well known attributes may be present, but are not...

Internet Registries

by | Apr 24, 2014 | Routing

      iana – Domain Names Management of the DNS Root, the .int and .arpa domains, and an IDN practices resource. iana – Number Resources Coordination the global pool of IPv4, IPv6 and AS numbers to Regional Internet Registries. iana –...

HSRP

by | Nov 15, 2013 | High Availability, Routing

Hot Standby Routing Protocol or HSRP is a Cisco’s proprietary Layer 2 method of providing high network availability by providing redundancy for IP hosts on an IEEE 802 LAN configured with a default gateway address. HSRP routes IP traffic without relying on the...