- Written by Tula Kraiser
- Posted on January 3, 2021
- Updated on June 24, 2022
- 3350 Views
The primary challenge with using a switching ASIC as a load balancer has been how to deal with changes in the network topology without disrupting existing TCP connections.
- Written by Manoj Agiwal
- Posted on September 30, 2015
- Updated on March 28, 2022
- 7009 Views
BGP Non Stop Forwarding (NSF) aims to minimize the traffic loss when the the following scenarios occur:
- Written by AKSHAYA Sridharan
- Posted on December 17, 2020
- Updated on June 30, 2022
- 3456 Views
Egress traffic-policing can be applied on L3 Ethernet subinterfaces for outbound traffic.
- Written by Neel Neogi
- Posted on December 30, 2020
- Updated on June 8, 2023
- 5568 Views
The document describes the support for dedicated and group ingress policing on interfaces without using QoS policy-maps to match on the traffic and apply policing.
- Written by Tanushree Bansal
- Posted on February 23, 2022
- Updated on June 2, 2022
- 2944 Views
This feature provides isolation and allows segregating/dividing the link state database based on interface.
- Written by Petr Budnik
- Posted on December 16, 2020
- Updated on June 23, 2022
- 3770 Views
ITU-T G8275.1 is a PTP profile defined by ITU-T for telecommunication applications. It defines a set of functions from the IEEE 1588 to achieve phase/time synchronization with full timing support from the network (meaning, all of the network devices support PTP).
- Written by Kalash Nainwal
- Posted on December 14, 2020
- Updated on August 24, 2023
- 5274 Views
RSVP-TE, the Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) for Traffic Engineering (TE), is used to distribute MPLS labels for steering traffic and reserving bandwidth. The Label Edge Router (LER) feature implements the headend functionality, i.e., RSVP-TE tunnels can originate at an LER which can steer traffic into the tunnel.
- Written by Harsh Goyal
- Posted on December 21, 2020
- Updated on August 24, 2023
- 3718 Views
IPv4 Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) can help limit malicious IPv4 traffic on a network. uRPF works by
- Written by Sulyab Thottungal Valapu
- Posted on December 7, 2020
- Updated on September 4, 2023
- 2978 Views
This document describes the OSPFv2 feature that allows the setting of “Down” (DN) bit in type-5 and type-7 LSAs. The DN Bit is a loop prevention mechanism implemented when OSPF is used as CE - PE IGP protocol. Its usage in OSPF is explained by RFC4576. By default, OSPF honors the DN-bit in type-3, type-5 or type-7 LSAs in non-default VRFs.