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Basic NetworkingMarch 20, 2023

NetFlow vs. sFlow: A Comparison of Network Flow Technologies

In today's technology-driven world, network flow technologies have become an essential part of network management. These technologies are designed to provide real-time visibility into network traffic, enabling administrators to monitor,...

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Basic NetworkingMarch 7, 2023

How to Manage BGP Prefix Lists and Restrict Inbound Network Traffic?

BGP Prefix Lists are a powerful tool for controlling which IP addresses can enter and leave your network. By using route filtering rules, you can control the traffic that flows...

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Basic NetworkingMarch 2, 2023

A Comprehensive Guide to EBGP Multihop

EBGP Multihop is a feature of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) that allows BGP peers to establish a connection over a greater distance than usual. This feature enables BGP peers...

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Basic NetworkingApril 10, 2022

Understanding CGN - Carrier Grade NAT

Carrier-Grade NAT (CGN) is also known as LSN (Large Scale NAT). And in my opinion, it should be called LSN since there is nothing for CGN to be a carrier-grade....

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Basic NetworkingApril 10, 2022

Broadband Network Architecture – Access Network Models

Broadband Network - There are many broadband services Service Providers offer to their customers today. As a network engineer, you need to know the most common services and their advantages,...

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Basic NetworkingApril 9, 2022

Unicast Multicast Broadcast Anycast and Incast Traffic Types

Unicast, Multicast, Broadcast, Anycast, and Incast traffic types will be explained in this post. Traffic flow and traffic types are important information that needs to be considered in Network Design,...

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Basic NetworkingFebruary 16, 2022

What is KISS Principle ? Keep it Simple and Stupid ?

What is KISS Principle ? Okay it stands for Keep it Simple and Stupid but what does really it mean in networking ? Can we really make things simpler ?....

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Basic NetworkingFebruary 14, 2022

ABR vs ASBR in OSPF

If you are new to Network Engineering and you are learning Dynamic Routing Protocol from scratch, you want to understand the differences between ABR vs ASBR and if there are...

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Basic NetworkingFebruary 13, 2022

Gratuitous ARP - GARP

GARP (Gratuitous ARP): Is an ARP message sent without request. Mainly used to notify other hosts in the network of a MAC address assignment change. When a host receives a...

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Basic NetworkingFebruary 13, 2022

What is ASBR?

What is ASBR? Autonomous System Boundary Router. This seems easy, it is just used in OSPF, isn't it?. In fact, that is wrong. You will learn in this post something,...

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Basic NetworkingFebruary 9, 2022

ARP, ARP Inspection, ARP Types and Deployment Considerations

This article is the second of our layer 2 attacks identification and mitigation techniques series, which will be a part of a bigger series discussing Security Infrastructure. Dynamic ARP Inspection...

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Basic NetworkingFebruary 9, 2022

Layer 2 security – DHCP Details, DHCP Snooping

DHCP Snooping - This article is the first of a series explaining layer 2 attacks identification and mitigation techniques, which will be a part of a bigger series discussing Security...

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