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Cisco: Dirty trick to force optimal path in routed environment

By On January 15, 2009 · 3 Comments

Everywhere in the world people try to find the optimal path to achieve something.If we speak about roads, trips and in our case networking, choosing the best path to an end point can have only advantages.

I took the term optimal / suboptimal path from the routing issues that can appear in the OSPF network [...]

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Cisco: Traffic manipulation with Policy Based Routing

By On December 5, 2008 · 3 Comments

Cisco Policy Based Routing provides a flexible mechanism for network administrators to customize the operation of the routing table and the flow of traffic within their networks. Policy Based Routing (PBR) offers many advanced features, including selection and forwarding of traffic to discreet Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) instances, as well as Enhanced Tracking of [...]

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Cisco hidden tools: Testing TCP connection

By On November 12, 2008 · 1 Comment

Sometimes you have a connection between 2 routers that you want to test with something more than a ping. Cisco devices have a hidden command which is actually a very powerful testing tool for your TCP connection.

The command is “ttcp” and you will not find it in the the default list of commands of [...]

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