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EIGRP Stub - It is actually one of the EIGRP Scalability features but also it helps many other things in EIGRP. Also, in this post, we will share a topology...
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....
BGP route reflectors, used as an alternate method to full-mesh IBGP, help in scaling. A BGP route reflector cluster is used to provide redundancy in a BGP RR design: the...
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,...
If you are working in the Operator, Service Provider, or Telco/Carrier networks, you probably heard this term. If you haven't, you need to learn it. To have a great understanding...
What is tier in the first place? If you are dealing with Service Provider networks, you hear this term a lot. But how do we define Tier 1, Tier 2,...
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,...
IGP vs BGP is one of the topics every Network Engineer want to learn in their career. In this post, without going into each IGP protocol detail, where and why...
OSPF LSA Types is the first topic you need to understand if you are trying to understand OSPF routing protocol. There are 11 different types of LSA in OSPF and...
OSPF Load Balancing is to place multiple next-hops into the Routing and Forwarding table for a given IP destination prefix. In this post, we will look at OSPF Load Balancing,...
BGP Multipath - by default, BGP installs only a single path in IBGP and EBGP deployment. If prefixes are learned via multiple paths, BGP supports multipath for IBGP, EBGP, or...
MP-BGP (Multiprotocol BGP) is an extension of the BGP protocol. Standard BGP only supports IPv4 unicast address families, whereas MP-BGP supports more than 15 different BGP address families. RFC4760 defines...