I have only a fairly basic understanding of networking, and am particularly light on understanding of routing, so looking for a little help from the Ars collective on this issue I have. At my place of ...

OSPF Basics are crucial for anyone stepping into the world of networking. As one of the most widely used interior routing protocols, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) offers high scalability, ...

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Abstract: With the current growth rate that networks are witnessing, it is essential to have routing protocols that can adjust to scale with this growth. OSPF (open shortest path first), the most ...

I ran into Tony Hain at NANOG last week, and he told me he had gotten pounded with questions about IPv4 address exhaustion after my post discussing his and Geoff Huston’s studies. His response to them ...

Well, at least one of you asked… and I did promise! Next we’ll move on to Type 5 (external) LSAs. (yeeha!) But if you didn’t yet vote for your top requests from Santa for this year, at least relative ...

So I've been messing around in GNS3 and created a topology which isn't quite working: Now, obviously this is a discontiguous network (I'm messing around to try and make stuff work when it ordinarily ...