Hope you have TONS of fun with this blog series! I needed to build a full MPLS cloud with L3VPN unicast and multicast for a CPOC. 🙂 Figured what the heck… bring y’all along for a “knowledge sharing ride-along”. Ultimately… Read More ›
Routing
mVPN Fun in the Lab: Troubleshooting the MVPN Cloud – Part 6 of 6
In MPLS Fun in the Lab: Add the Multicast in the Cloud – Part 5 we added the support in the cloud for multicast and for MVPN. As I mentioned in that blog, I intentionally left something out so we… Read More ›
mVPN Fun in the Lab: Following the Labels – Part 3 of 6
In our last blog (MPLS Fun in the Lab: Connect a Customer – Part 2) we added a customer to our MPLS cloud and we got a ping successfully across. Now? Now we Follow the Labels of that successful ping…. Read More ›
BGP Show and Tell: Beginners
New to BGP? This should definitely help! We will connect R1/R2/R3 into the already existing BGP network. We will go step by step through all of this together… me right along side of you in the YouTube in a lab… Read More ›
The Case of the Missing LDP Neighbor
R1 and R2 are cabled up twice to each other via their gig0/0/1 interfaces and their gig0/0/7 interfaces. Each connection is in its own subnet, and each interface configured for OSPF and MPLS. But while we have 2 OSPF neighbors… Read More ›
Network Detective Ride-Along: Troubleshooting Multicast
Grab your Network Detective badge! It’s time for another Network Detective ride-along. 🙂 Multicast this time. Case of the Missing Multicast Streams We need to solve the case of the missing Multicast streams. ONLY 2 multicast streams (232.2.1.1 and… Read More ›
Understanding IPv6: Solicited-Node Multicast In Action (Part 7 of 7)
The last few blogs in my series on IPv6 have focused on solicited-node multicast, which provides the functionality for Neighbor Discovery in IPv6 addressing. We ended the last blog with a cliffhanger, asking, “In IPv6, how do we find the Layer 2 MAC address… Read More ›