Network Engineers are always looking for new ways to gain some low-cost network testing capabilities. Few companies sufficiently fund networking labs for their networking teams to learn on prior to ...

The last thing you want is to configure your routing protocol to turn VPLS into a frame-relay style network with all traffic routing through a hub site. VPLS looks like a great technology for a small ...

The open systems interconnect (OSI) model provides the standardization of a communication system by breaking it into seven layers. From lowest to highest, these are physical,data link, network, ...

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Don't be fooled into thinking that static routing is always the best tool for the job, however. The greatest negative to using static routes is that they don't scale as your network grows. This is ...

To thoroughly understand routing, you need to understand routing tables. In this Daily Feature, Deb Shinder explains how routing tables are used, the information they contain, and how to view and ...