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Introduction to Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) [Tutorial]

This is used in conjunction with a static-default route to create an OSPF default static route. It is like advertising a static default route. To let all the routers know if you want to get to a desti... read more

Propagating static routes

ip route 0.0.0.0.0.0.00 192.168.100.250 Again, I've added the static default route through 192.168.100.250 and I'd like to propagate this route to the other OSPF routers in the network. Unlike RIP, OS... read more

OSPF Default Route

With this simple topology of 2 Cisco routers, we will configure default route in OSPF. The scenario is interface loopback 0 on R1 (100.100.100.1) will not advertised into OSPF, R2 will reach it throug... read more

Route Tagging: Why and When To Implement

So you had three sites injecting default routes into OSPF, and each site had to pick which one it wanted (used an SLA on the static default, so if it could not get to the far side of the firewall that ... read more

Configuration Example 3: Redistributing Classful Routes into OSPF as Type 1 Routes Using a Specific Metric

Routes are redistributed in OSPF as either type 1 (E1) routes or type 2 (E2) routes, with type 2 being the default. A type 1 route has a metric that is the sum of the internal OSPF cost and the extern... read more

Networking 101: Understanding Routing

Of course, I’m insulting your intelligence, because this is the concept of a default route. But pay attention ... or Interior Gateway Protocols. RIP, OSPF, and ISIS are a few IGP’s you may have heard ... read more

Network Route and Multicast Monitoring Now in SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor

AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwired - May 23, 2013) - SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management software, today introduced new network route ... OSPF v2, and BGP, IT pro... read more

Get Started with the Whole of Branch Provisioning – Virtual and Physical

For example in the L3 connection, there is no default route provided to the 9300. It can only communicate to the outside world once OSPF is configured and comes up via the front panel ports. In this c... read more

How to troubleshoot five common routing errors

In order to form an adjacency, OSPF routers need to have quite a few parameters ... Oddly enough, Cisco declined the opportunity to set a default metric for EIGRP routes. Instead, they leave that up t... read more

Configuring Routing Policy

For more information about preference values, see the Table 9.1, "Default Route Preference Values," on page 379. You can specify two tag strings: tag (for the first string) and tag2. These values are ... read more

Various sample configuration using Wireless as backbone network

The purpose of using dynamic routing protocol such OSPF is ... 3 switch, Router 1, and PIX Firewall devices are part of and make up the Wireless Backbone infrastructure * The Router 2 is solely for IS... read more