CCIE - Jack Brown

CCIE

A collection of 3 posts

RIB, FIB, LIB and the Adjacency Table

RIB (Routing Information Base) * Maintains the network toplogies and routing tables for each protocol. * Would include many routes going to the same destination. * Built on a per routing protocol basis. FIB (Forwarding Information Base) * Contains the best routes from the many routing protocol RIB's. * Stored in fast hardware tables on

SPAN, RSPAN and ERSPAN

Cisco switches have a feature that allow a copy of traffic from a source port or a source VLAN to be sent to a single port or IP address (over GRE). This feature, known as SPAN (Switch Port Analyser). Reasons you may want to use this feature may include monitoring

CCIE Study Lab - Preparing to build a home lab!

Going to start studying towards my CCIE in a month of two and going to use this blog to document my progress. I have a HP microserver N54L (picture below) that I picked up from eBuyer for £99, IIRC it was £199 with £100 cashback. I also spent some money