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 ...

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 ...

Cisco recommends using AES-CBC for encryption and SHA1 for authentication to protect against performance risks to some of its Catalyst and ASR gear. To reduce the risk of service problems, Cisco is ...

Many enterprises use OSPF version 2 for their internal IPv4 routing protocol. OSPF has gone through changes over the years and the protocol has been adapted to work with IPv6. As organizations start ...

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 ...