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Hello, Welcome to my networking blog, my name is Luke, I am Canadian, I’ve been working in networking 15+ years with a mixture of both Enterprise and ISP environments. You can find more information about me on the about me page. On this blog you an expect some posts explaining networking concepts, labs I’m working on and what I’m doing for my networking training.


Network Monitoring

Network Monitoring is a very important part of Networking, it can alert you of problems before they come to be major issues, it can alert you as soon as a problem occurs and helps you pinpoint the issue as long as you have your network monitoring configured properly. If you have a device that goes…

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EIGRP – Part 2

I’ve already done one post regarding EIGRP, but I said I was going to do a second post going over a few more advanced topics regarding EIGRP routing protocol. Check out my previous EIGRP post by clicking here. EIGRP uses Hello packets to check that their neighbors are still active, these packets are sent out…

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OSPF

OSPF stands for Open Shortest Path First it is an interior gateway routing protocol. OSPF is a link-state routing protocol. OSPF is my go to protocol that I like working with, OSPF is not a vendor specific protocol, a number of vendors also run OSPF on their networking devices, I’ve personally used OSPF on Juniper…

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