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 ...

Even Jeff Doyle tells me that I should do a little blogging with OSPF. What’s a networker to do with that kind of backing? And a few others expressed some interest as well – in understanding LSAs ...

http://ipexpert.ccieblog.com/ – OSPF is a topic that must be absolutely mastered for the CCIE lab exam. Many students understand the fundamental concepts, but get ...

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — A researcher at Black Hat has revealed a vulnerability in the most common corporate router protocol that puts networks using it at risk of attacks that compromise data streams, falsify ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. Building enterprise networks with routers and switches ...

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