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routing

Route Selection

September 14, 2009

One of the most common questions I get concerns path selection within the router. Everyone knows (or at least they should know) that a more specific prefix will be preferred, but until you learn the basics, you’ll never be able to debug why a router is using a sub optimal path. There are a couple [...]

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If you haven’t touched BGP Communities I want to start out by saying that they rock, they’re actually my favorite BGP feature, especially when all of your upstream providers support blackhole communities. I’ll get into that on a later tutorial though..
Last night I was laying in bed not sleeping and I started to let my [...]

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Recently one of my clients asked me to help resolve an issue at an aggregation point on their network. They had several connections that converged onto a single unlicensed link on their network, not only was the link saturated, but it had lots of bi-directional traffic going across it. While I would’ve preferred to move [...]

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Rocking out with my…

March 9, 2009

Ok, so I’m testing a new theme that I’m working on customizing. But after spending the last 8 years on my previous theme, its hard for me to switch ! I know I need to update the site a little bit, to avoid looking like I live in the stone age, so here it is.. [...]

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