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EIGRP Multipathing

📅 Mar 1, 2022 · ☕ 6 min read

– By default EIGRP supports and is configured to use equal cost multi-pathing (ECMP). EIGRP also supports unequal cost multi-pathing (UCMP) but must be configured to use it. Equal Cost Multi-Pathing First lets look at ECMP and how it behaves by default in EIGRP.

EIGRP Path Selection

📅 Mar 1, 2022 · ☕ 4 min read

– Terminology Successor (S) – path with the lowest cost to the prefix. Feasible Successor (FS) – backup paths for S. Reported Distance (RD) – a neighbours distance to the prefix.

EIGRP Stub Routing

📅 Mar 1, 2022 · ☕ 4 min read

– In the interest of conserving local router resources and alleviating network load, EIGRP supports stub routing. A stub router is a router that should not be used as a transit router, meaning that the stub router does not have any information about other EIGRP routers behind it and does not need to advertise anything other than locally connected and summary routes to its neighbours.

Active Directory Domain Controller Deployment with Powershell

📅 Oct 22, 2021 · ☕ 2 min read

– Rename the Server 1 2 3 PS C:\Users\Administrator> Rename-Computer XOGS-E-DC01 WARNING: The changes will take effect after you restart the computer XOGS-DC01. PS C:\Users\Administrator> Restart-Computer Wait for the server to reboot.

A Practical Example of the Native VLAN

📅 Aug 10, 2021 · ☕ 2 min read

– Summary On ingress frames (frames coming into the switchport): If the frame does not have a VLAN tag, it will be tagged with the configured Native VLAN on the switchport.

SNMPv3 on a Cisco Device

📅 Aug 9, 2021 · ☕ 4 min read

– Simple Network Management Protocol version 3 introduces much needed security features to the SNMP protocol, SNMPv1 and v2c do not support authentication or encryption of SNMP data. SNMPv3 introduces authentication based on the HMAC-MD5 and HMAC-SHA algorithms, and encryption using AES algorithms (weaker algorithms are also supported).