Welcome back to another techtorial blog here at IPexpert! Today’s topic is coming at you all directly from this week here at IPexpert bootcamp!!! Tonight we will be discussing the often misunderstood topic of EIGRP metric and K-Values. how exactly is the metric calculated? What ARE the K values? What are they used for? Perhaps more importantly, we will discuss what K-Values are NOT as this is almost always misunderstood especially because much of the information out there is wrong.
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Welcome back everybody! In today’s tech blog we are going to dust off an old long lost friend – The frame-relay switch!!!
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Welcome back everybody! Today we will be continuing our discussion on some of the internals of OSPF Type-4 LSAs and the forwarding-address. We will also be discussing an interesting feature known as forward-address suppression and see how it can actually dramatically change the flow of our traffic in OSPF. The diagram we will be working on is similar to the one used for part 1 of this blog, but modified to make it a bit more…interesting?
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Welcome back everybody! Today we will be taking a look at some more often misunderstood topics in the world of OSPF. Hopefully, by the end of this two part blog we will have a much clearer view of the dreaded Type-4 LSA. What exactly is it? Who actually generates it and why? Check out the diagram below to get a feel for what we will be working with tonight! In part 1 of this blog, we will take a look at the Type-4 LSA. In part 2 we will dig a bit deeper and look more closely at the forward-address and different situations where it may be altered.
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Hello everyone! Today I would like to share with you all a few obscure specific details related to both BGP and redistribution. Having things like this down will be important to your success in the lab. I know that some of the details I will be discussing were surprises to me when I first learned them, so hopefully it will help you guys out!

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