This post is not meant to be an introduction to traceroute in MPLS. There are many good resources on this topic already.
It is meant to provide a quick reference how a traceroute should look like in a healthy network and how different features might influence the outputs. Most of …
more ...Sometimes when we purchase a L2 service from a service provider, we need to have our L2 protocols tunneled.
ASR920 platform gives the operator three option to choose from:
l2protocol tunnell2protool peerl2protocol forwardAlthough I've been working with ASR920s for a while, I didn't have the time to …
more ...I write this post as I go through Route Target Constraint (RFC 4364) feature. I'll try to answer below questions:
Before looking into the feature, let's think for a moment how typical network involving route …
more ...Here are my notes about how IS-IS deals with authentication. I'll be working on a simple network consisting of IOS XE, IOS XR and Junos based routers.
Here is reference diagram:
First, I'll start off by verifying IS-IS adjacencies on R6.
R6#sh isis neighbors
Tag 1 …Recently a friend of mine asked a question which can be summarized as
does the Route Distinguisher of Route Target play any role in BGP best path selection in MPLS BGP VPNs?
I'll try to answer this question based on the following scenario:
We have two PE routers running IOS …
This is one of the oldest methods of implementing multicast in Service Providers core. Quite popular, but unfortunately has some serious limitations.
We will see the operation of Draft-Rosen deployment model in practice by building sample lab topology and looking how particular pieces of technology fit together. Let’s look …
more ...I'm happy to announce that on 26th Jan 2015 I passed the R&S lab in Brussels. This was a long road, but definitely worth it!
Because my 1st attempt went smooth in terms of travel arrangements I decided not to make any changes on my 2nd …
more ...After long months of study the big day has came. To be honest, I didn't feel 100% prepared, but I finally wanted to see what I'm up against. I was traveling with a friend, also 1st timer. As our lab day was Monday, we chose to leave on Friday …
more ...The shortest statement describing PIM-DM behavior is "flood and prune". We assume that every host on every network segment wants multicast traffic. Later routers can signal that they aren't interested anymore in receiving particular multicast group.
High level overview of PIM-DM operation is as follows:
Often there comes a day in a CCIE candidate's life when he ask a question - "should I attend a bootcamp?". This may be difficult to answer, especially when one has to get funding himself. Yesterday I came back from Warsaw after attending Narbik's 5 day CCIE RS bootcamp. In this …
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