Multicast Routing: Rather Than Dense, Sparse It And Let’s Meet At Rendez-Vous Point… Part 5/6

In this post let’s detail the operation of PIM (Protocol Independent Multicast) in sparse mode. Previous posts tackled the operation of PIM dense mode. Let’s recall that PIM is the multicast routing protocol that allows PIM routers exchange information needed distribute multicast traffic to receivers. Introduction This blog is a part of a serie of…...

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What Is the Best Way of Subnetting?

In this post, let’s recall what is subnetting for routing and switching purposes and how it is done. Motivation Network subnetting is very important subject that maybe referred to as VLSM for variable length subnetting. The basic idea is about managing a space of IP addresses (IPv4). Historically, a network length or space was fixed…...

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Cisco HSRP In Detail

In this blog, we’ll discuss in detail the operation of HSRP one of the most known FHRP (First Hop Routing Protocols) protocols proposed by Cisco to help secure (in terms of redundancy) the gateway (for hosts or servers) within a LAN. The objective is simple: configure one gateway address and provision as many real routers…...

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My First Scapied IPV6 Packet

In this blog, let’s build our first IPv6 packet. Introduction The idea of this lab is to craft an IPv6 packet from scratch using Python and Scapy library. The IDE I use is JetBrains PyCharm Community Edition 2018.3.1 x64 which is available for free at : https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/download-thanks.html?platform=windows&code=PCC The IDE The IDE interface looks like in…

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