Multicast: rather than dense, sparse it and let’s meet at rendez-vous point… Part 5
Client1 is configured to join multicast destined for group 226.0.0.1 and sent from Server1 Instead of PIM-Dense (flood and prune) we use PIM-Sparse to build the forwarding path from the […]
July 24, 2019 I’am not a good gateway… set redirection!
In this lab PC1 tries to communicate with PC2 R1, R2 and R3 are in the same network Static routing is configured on routers R1, R2 and R3 such as […]
July 23, 2019 Multicast: Hold ASM for a moment, let’s do SSM!… Part 4
IGMPv3 (RFC 4607) allows the receivers to specify the source they wish in additiont the multicast group trafic By default we use the 232.0.0.0/8 range for SSM In our lab […]
July 23, 2019 Is it sufficient split-horizon rule to prevent RIP loops?
Per the split-horizon rule, don’t send an update back on the interface it was received on What is the challenge here? In addition to bandwidth usage and system resources consumption, […]
July 15, 2019 RIP: do not split it then… and unleach the power of the “network” command
In RIP domain routers R1 and R2 exchange information about loopback 0 and 1 networks Router RIP command “network 0.0.0.0” hints routers to add all ip enabled interfaces to the […]
July 15, 2019 Multicast routing: From the source… Part 3
We build on our discussion from the previous blogs The test topolgy How R3 handles Server2 source multicast trafic?
July 12, 2019