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I am fairly new to content switching. I have a relatively simple requirement ... I need some type of front-end to a farm of Web servers. The front-end should load balance and be aware of back-end failures. It should also be highly-available itself...
Create an extended ACL as followsaccess-list 101 permit ip any [dest of your static route] [inverse of dest mask] logaccess-list 101 permit ip any anyThen apply 'ip access-group 101 out' to the outbound interface that your static route uses. Techni...
There are many reasons why this won't work. BGP is using TCP, and you'd need a stateful failover which is not part of HSRP. BGP also knows what the other side's IP address should be based on the config, and that is probably not the case.Anyhow ... ...
On a Broadcast network, OSPF elects a DR for this purpose. Read up about DR election, and DR,BDR and DROther communication. The summary is that the non-DR routers send their updates to the multicast address of 224.0.0.6 (AllDRouters). The DR and ...
I am not completely sure about the "mask difference" but will attempt to clarify something which may help.A common trap when experimenting with ospf/bgp redistribution is using a loopback interface with a /24 in OSPF to simulate a route. Without the...
It's kind of funny the "MP" in MPLS still needs some time. I doubt we will see anything for carrying IPX natively inside MPLS, mainly because the demand isn't there in the service provider space.There are emerging standards for bridging layer 2 insi...
