BGP Route Reflector Design Options (Part 2): Hierarchical 2-tier Route Reflectors, MCIDs
The issue of the previous Route Reflector (RR) design is that it is not protected from a single point of failure: if a RR goes…
Read more →The issue of the previous Route Reflector (RR) design is that it is not protected from a single point of failure: if a RR goes…
Read more →If we have many iBGP routers within an AS, to solve the scalability issue of the full-mesh requirement we can deploy one (or more) iBGP…
Read more →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 →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 →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 →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…
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