Category Archives: Cisco Routing & Switching

PIM NBMA – DR & RPF Issues

By | December 29, 2021

We will discuss this topic using below topology. RIP is running everywhere, PIM-SM on all interfaces and everyone has R4 at 192.168.100.4 as the static RP. R1 Router has the following config on its LAN interface:- Let’s ping from R6 Router:- what gives? Let’s look at R4 Router:- Tt looks that R2 Router is showing… Read More »

BGP Conditional Route Injection

By | January 6, 2021

AS the name of topic, we will make the conditional routing / route advertisement. We will achieve this by injecting routes using inject-map and exit-map. We will use prefix-list instead of ACL. You should also avoid the ACLs when configuring conditional routing. Injected route must be part or subset of an aggregated route and this… Read More »

How Route Reflector Prevent Loops

By | January 5, 2021

As we all know, Route reflector always receives the routes from clients (iBGP) and non-clients (eBGP), and it reflects these routes to clients and non-clients. Note: RR will reflect the routes to both clients and non-clients, if best route was received from clients. If route was received from non-client then it will be reflect to… Read More »