BGP Local Pref and how it can influence traffic
what does “bgp local-pref” do for me? The short answer is it allows you to prefer which direction a traffic will flow to a given destination
Cisco 2960X I/O usage
While double checking some stats on a network I came across this in Librenms in regards to a Cisco 2960X
Tech Tip: Determining MTU via MacOSX Ping oh yeah and Windows
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Some Basic Cisco router terminology
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Hurricane Electric route table over 800,000 routes
Had a Hurricane peer without any filtering or the like reach over 800,000 routes toda
VLANs on Mikrotik RouterOS from Rick Frey
Our friend Rick Frey has a great tutorial on VLANs on Mikrotik RouterOS and configuration
Need an ASN, IP space? I have a package for you.
Are you intimidated by getting an ASN to participate in BGP? Need help with routing registries?
Cisco ORF (Outbound route filtering)
Outbound Route Filtering (ORF) is a Cisco proprietary feature that prevents the unnecessary exchanging of routes that are subject to inbound filtering.
BGP Messages
There are four types of BGP messages. These areOpen, Update, Keepalive, and Notification.
A little reboot now and then..
Just a reminder that rebooting does help. My home network was experiencing slowness and lag