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In today's technology-driven world, network flow technologies have become an essential part of network management. These technologies are designed to provide real-time visibility into network traffic, enabling administrators to monitor,...
BGP Prefix Lists are a powerful tool for controlling which IP addresses can enter and leave your network. By using route filtering rules, you can control the traffic that flows...
EBGP Multihop is a feature of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that allows BGP peers to establish a connection over a greater distance than usual. This feature enables BGP peers...
Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) is also known as LSN (Large Scale NAT). And in my opinion, it should be called LSN since there is nothing for CGN to be a carrier-grade....
Broadband Network - There are many broadband services Service Providers offer to their customers today. As a network engineer, you need to know the most common services and their advantages,...
Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast, Anycast, and Incast traffic types will be explained in this post. Traffic flow and traffic types are important information that needs to be considered in Network Design,...
What is KISS Principle ? Okay it stands for Keep it Simple and Stupid but what does really it mean in networking ? Can we really make things simpler ?....
If you are new to Network Engineering and you are learning Dynamic Routing Protocol from scratch, you want to understand the differences between ABR vs ASBR and if there are...
GARP (Gratuitous ARP): Is an ARP message sent without request. Mainly used to notify other hosts in the network of a MAC address assignment change. When a host receives a...
What is ASBR? Autonomous System Boundary Router. This seems easy, it is just used in OSPF, isn't it?. In fact, that is wrong. You will learn in this post something,...
This article is the second of our layer 2 attacks identification and mitigation techniques series, which will be a part of a bigger series discussing Security Infrastructure. Dynamic ARP Inspection...
DHCP Snooping - This article is the first of a series explaining layer 2 attacks identification and mitigation techniques, which will be a part of a bigger series discussing Security...