Configuring Multicast routing (Part 4): PIM Assert, Designated Router, Null Register
We extend our previous topology with a few new routers to demostrate how the PIM Assert mechanism work. This time we configure PIM with dense-mode…
Read more →Configuring Multicast routing with PIM Sparse-Mode (Part 3): Bootstrap Router (BSR)
In the previous multicast post we configured the RP statically. If we have a lot of routers this solution is not going to be scalable…
Read more →Configuring Multicast routing with PIM Sparse-Mode (Part 2): RPF checks, static mroute
We continue the previous multicast lab. This time we take a look at how RPF check works, how we can prevent RPF failures, and how…
Read more →Mirroring traffic with SPAN, RSPAN and ERSPAN
These features allow us copy the traffic of a switchport or an entire VLAN and send the copied frames to another switchport. This destination port…
Read more →Implementing VPLS part 2: BGP Autodiscovery
In the previous post about VPLS implementation we configured the remote PEs manually under the VFI, like this: This solution is not scalable if the…
Read more →Implementing MPLS L2VPN services on SR OS part 1: Epipe
We're going to configure Layer 2 services for customers over an MPLS cloud using SR OS routers. First we're going to take a look at…
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