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Stacking the Dell MXL Blade Switch
The Data Center Bridging (DCB) enabled Dell MXL blade switch provides a 1/10/40GbE upstream solution for the Dell PowerEdge M1000e chassis. It comes with two fixed 40 GbE ports but is scalable up to six 40GbE ports via 40GbE FlexIO … Continue reading
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Multi-Area OSPF – Redundancy, Route Summarization, and LSA Filtering
In this lab, all routers except for R4 and R5 are Cisco 3725 routers [IOS 12.4(15)T10]. Routers R4 and R5 are Cisco 7200 routers [IOS 12.4(24)T]. Below is the network diagram for this lab.
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Tagged ABR, Area Border Router, Cisco, Cisco 3725, Cisco 3725 router, Cisco 7200, Cisco 7200 router, Multi-Area OSPF, networking, Open Shortest Path First, OSPF, OSPF ABR, OSPF Area Border Router, OSPF redundancy, OSPF summary route, redundancy, summary route
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Single/Dual and Multihomed Connections
Network engineers will sometimes speak of connections to their ISP(s) in terms of single homed, dual homed, single multihomed, and dual multihomed. Here is a breakdown and clarification of what this terminology means: – Single Homed (1 link per ISP, … Continue reading