Category Archives: Cisco Routing & Switching

OSPF behavior on unnumbered links

By | December 29, 2021

I saw few books says that OSPF neighbors will become adjacent if one or both of the neighbors are using unnumbered interfaces between them. But I observed completely opposite behavior when I checked it in lab. The adjacency will not come back up. Let’s configure R4: So It means both side should be unnumbered to… Read More »

RIP metric when summarizing redistributed routes

By | December 29, 2021

I saw this interesting issue about the metrics of summarized routes after being redistributed into RIP. Scenario: R1—RIP—R2—OSPF—R5—5.5.5.5/32 R2 is redistributing OSPF to RIP as follows: R1 has the following route: 1-Manual Summary: The metric increased by 1. 2-Auto-summary: The metric is the same as when redistributed. Thanks for reading the blog. Recommended links:

PIM Forwarder & Assert Mechanism

By | December 29, 2021

I was always get confused about PIM DR and PIM Forwarder. So this is the time to clear up my confusion. Here we take a look at PIM Forwarder and how to verify the assert process is working. We will use below topology: We have enabled below: RIP on all interfaces ip multicast-routing on all… Read More »