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 ...

so, this is my first foray into dynamic routing and so far i have accomplished a minimum amount of setup in my environment. i have a linux based router running ospf, and two linux servers ...

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 ...

Equal-cost multi-path allows a router to insert more than one path to a destination in the routing table to enable load balancing. Here's how ECMP works and how to configure it in OSPF. Equal-cost ...

OSPF is a popular interior gateway protocol, frequently encountered by network engineers. Here's how to get it up and running in a network. Open shortest path first, or OSPF, is a routing protocol ...

“DNS is down and nothing is working!” is not something anyone ever wants to hear at 3am. Virtually every service on a modern network depends on DNS to function. When DNS goes down, you can't send mail ...

In modern computer networks, the ability to manage traffic efficiently is essential to ensuring reliability, scalability, and ...