This post is a part of series of posts about RIP dynamic routing protocol. Here we deepen our understanding on how RIP protocol advertises learnt RIP routes. A simple case is where a route is in the m...
RIP is Routing Information Protocol, one of the IGP or Interior Gateway Porotocols called also a vector-based routing protocol in contrast with link-state, hybrid or path-based protocols. The function...
This post is part of a series of blogs about RIP functionning from the basic to the more complex operation. Let’s recall that RIP stands for Routing Information Protocol and is an IGP (Interior ...
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 ...
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” sho...
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 multica...





