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OSPF and Loopback Interfaces

July 30, 2011

I was studying via Google+ Hangout the other day with CJ and Rob, and one of the topics that came up was the idea of OSPFv2 advertising all loopbacks as 32-bit no matter what the configured mask is. I rarely use loopbacks outside of a lab and had no idea, so I set...

Routing IPv6 with BGP – The Basics

February 10, 2011

By Aaron Conaway

Are you sensing a theme lately? Since we covered the basics of the main IGPs (I'm an enterprise guy, so no IS-IS comments, please.), I thought I'd try to describe the basics of advertising IPv6 routes over BGP. Yet again, we're not going to do any route manipulation or change any of...

OSPFv3 – The Basics

January 31, 2011

By Aaron Conaway

A few hours ago, the last of the IPv4 addresses were allocated by IANA. Now's the time to learn more about IPv6! Yesterday, I posted about EIGRP for IPv6, so I think I'll continue the trend by introducing OSPFv3, which is the IPv6 implementation of OSPF

EIGRP for IPv6 – The Basics

January 30, 2011

By Aaron Conaway

I'm not going to go all out like Jeremy over at Packetlife.net has, but I'm going to start to discuss a few IPv6 topics. In time (like in September when APNIC runs out of IPv4 addresses), I'm sure I'll ramp up the IPv6 talk, but let's start easy and get EIGRP for IPv6...

Tagging External Routes in EIGRP

December 2, 2010

By Aaron Conaway

EIGRP allows you to tag external routes. That is, any route redistributed into EIGRP can be tagged with a numeric descriptor from 0 to 4294967295. Aaron ConawayI like to lean my head to the left, hit it with the palm of my right hand, and document what knowledge falls out.Website - More Posts Download...