Ars Technica

Please critique my Dual WAN BGP + OSPF Cisco Configs

I have two WAN routers, each connected to a separate ISP. I'm advertising 200.200.200.0/24 over BGP to both. My AS is 200200. Both of these WAN routers are connected to a switch fabric with my LAN ...
Ars Technica

Cisco - Dual ISPs via OSPF/BGP - Check my config

We are in the process of getting a second public ISP installed in our DR site and we want outbound traffic to failover to ISP B if ISP A fails. At the moment in my lab I have two ASA5505's, and three ...
Network World

UTMs require routing for flexibility’s sake

Dynamic routing is the kind of feature required of any UTM firewall as a means of providing deployment flexibility. We tested the OSPF-routing capabilities of the UTM devices in order to simulate the ...

Dijkstra’s algorithm won’t be replaced in production routers any time soon

Researchers have found a new approach to finding shortest paths, but it's complex Systems Approach Last year a couple of people forwarded to me the same article on a new method of finding shortest ...