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Routing protocols – recap and quick notes

Types of dynamic routing protocols:   RIP : Routing Information Protocol – AD 120 IGRP : Interior Gateway Routing Protocol – AD-100 EIGRP : Enhanced IGRP AD-90 OSPF : Open Shortest Path First AD-110 IS-IS : Intermediate system to intermediate system AD-115 BGP: Border Gateway Protocol AD-20

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OSMC KODI: Mount NFS using fstab

Why use /etc/fstab instead of Kodi’s built in NFS client? Using /etc/fstab is faster than Kodi’s own NFS client – it delivers better throughput and is more reliable (also than SMB mounting). Many performance issues, especially with high-bitrate content can be solved by using NFS shares and /etc/fstab. Additionally, it’s quite easy to set up.… Read More »

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BGP Aggregate experiment

The BGP aggregate-address can be used to summarise a set of networks into a single prefix. For this post, I just wanted to show the difference between aggregate-address and aggregate-address with summary only. We have below topology. I’m going to summarise prefixes in R1. R1 config hostname R1 ! interface GigabitEthernet0/0 ip address 10.10.10.1 255.255.255.252… Read More »

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Installing Bare-metal OpenVZ

Objectives We are going to achieve 2 things here. 1. Install the OpenVZ OS 2. Install Ruby 1.8 3. Install the OpenVZ Web Panel Install the OpenVZ OS 1. Get the ISO from https://download.openvz.org/virtuozzo/releases/7.0/x86_64/iso/ 2. Install it as usual Install Ruby 1.8 [root@localhost]#command curl -sSL https://rvm.io/mpapis.asc | gpg2 –import – [root@localhost]#\curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash… Read More »

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