The maximum number of routes over which IGRP can load balance is set with the maximum-paths paths command. Paths may be any number from one to six in IOS 11.0 and later and any number from one to four in earlier versions. The default for all versions is four. Figure 6.16 shows three parallel paths of varying costs from McCloy to network 172.18.0.0. The network administrator wants to load balance over a maximum of only two of these routes while ensuring that if either of these..
Good Network Security Is Predictable
It is 3 a.m. and you are sleeping like a baby. That's great because you've spent many late nights protecting your new e-commerce site with the best security devices and software money can buy. You have a pair of firewalls that can handle an OC-48, NIDS boxes that allow you to craft your own complex signatures, a very expensive alarm and reporting tool that generates reports for your boss every morning, and the latest in file system checking and log analyzers for your servers...
VTP Pruning: Advanced Traffic Management
A transparent bridge handles LAN frames by filtering (dropping), forwarding, or flooding. Flooding occurs whenever the bridge receives a frame with a destination MAC address for which it has no entry in its bridging table. This happens whenever the bridge never hears from the destination and, therefore, has no entry in the bridge table. Or, no entry can exist because the bridge's aging timer expired for the MAC address. Frames in these scenarios are unknown unicast. Bridges a..
Using Custom Queues with Priority Queues
You can split the queues so that some use Priority Queuing and the remainder Custom Queuing: Router#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router(config)#access-list 101 permit ip any any precedence 7 Router(config)#access-list 102 permit ip any any precedence 6 Router(config)#access-list 103 permit ip any any precedence 5 Router(config)#access-list 104 permit ip any any precedence 4 Router(config)#access-list 105 permit ip an..
To enable MD5-based EIGRP packet authentication, you must first define a key chain for the encryption, and then apply the authentication commands to the interface as follows: Router1#configure terminal Enter configuration commands, one per line. End with CNTL/Z. Router1(config)#key chain ORA Router1(config-keychain)#key 1 Router1(config-keychain-key)#key-string oreilly Router1(config-keychain-key)#exit Router1(config-keychain)#exit Router1(config)#interface Ser..
