Wednesday, 3 July 2019

Git- Part 1: Intro to Git

Introduction: What is Version Control?

● Version Control System (VCS) is a system used for tracking

changes to content (aka source control).

● Crucial for collaboration:

◆ Who made the change?

◆ What was the change?

◆ When was the change made?

Sunday, 23 June 2019

Policy-Based Routing (PBR), How PBR works and How we can use PBR?

PBR:

  • Destination based routing systems make it quite hard to change the routing behavior of specific traffic. With PBR, a network engineer has the ability to dictate the routing behavior based on a number of different criteria other than destination network, including source or destination network, source or destination address, source or destination port, protocol, packet size, and packet classification among others.
  • Policy-based routing adds flexibility and control that other routing techniques do not. It give you a level of control that a routing protocol by itself does not.
  • With flexibility, there is typically a cost and in this case its scalability and manageability.
  • It is a great tool but not one to be used for all cases. When you have a need to forward base on something other than destination, then PBR is your answer.
  • In a way, it allows traffic engineering at interface level. It allows to route the packets over specific traffic engineered paths, which provide the desired QoS through the network.

Wednesday, 12 June 2019

OSPF Series 11: Everything on Redistribution: Part 2- Redistribution into OSPF, Pitfall of Redistribution (Administrative Distance, Route Feedback)

Everything on Redistribution: Part 2- Redistribution into OSPF, Pitfall of Redistribution (Administrative Distance, Route Feedback)

 

Redistributing into OSPF

OSPF is a standardized Link-State routing protocol that uses cost (based on bandwidth) as its link-state metric. An OSPF router performing redistribution automatically becomes an ASBR

Wednesday, 5 June 2019

OSPF Series 10: Everything on Redistribution: Part 1- Basics, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, Static and Connected

Everything on Redistribution- Basics, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, Static and Connected

Route Redistribution Basics

It is preferable to employ a single routing protocol in an internetwork environment, for simplicity and ease of management. Unfortunately, this is not always possible, making multi-protocol environments common.

Route Redistribution allows routes

Tuesday, 28 May 2019

OSPF Series 9: Route Filtering and Route-Maps

Prefix-Lists

Prefix-lists are used to match routes as opposed to traffic. Two things are matched:

  • The prefix (the network itself)

  • The prefix-length