Is It Sufficient RIP Split-Horizon Rule To Prevent Routing Loops?

Introduction Dynamic routing protocols exchange routing information before populating routing tables and forwarding packets. For this task, RIP (routing information protocol) put into play many machanisms and rules to guarantee that this routing information exchange is consistent: not contradictory among routers. An example of such inconsistency is to receive the same routing information on two…

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Multicast Routing: A Step By Step… Part 1/6

In this post we review a basic multicast routing operation, step by step using output from routers console and traffic packet capture (using wireshark). Introduction This blog is a part of a serie of blogs about multicast routing: How does multicast work In IPv4, multicasting servers use class D range of addresses: 224.0.0.0-239.255.255.255. Some addresses…...

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Multicast Routing: RPF… Part 6/6

In this blog, we study RPF operation. Introduction This blog is a part of a serie of blogs about multicast routing: Test network In our test network RPF in action At R2 A “show ip interface brief” shows Digging into the interface tunnel0 details The tunnel was created by PIM process to join the RP…...

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