GeezerVison is showing howdoesinternetwork.com — Networking Tips & Tricks
This will be alphabetically sorted bunch of simple but hard to find facts about some very important networking features and protocols. It is a page about interesting not well-known facts that for me were a surprise first time when I hear them.
It will at some point go active with some advanced search option but until is only a page long it will be like this:
Welcome to Tips & Tricks on HowDoesInternetWork
- IPv6
- Pinging IPv4 is returning IPv6?
- If you are connected with your computer (Win computer) to some LAN network across DirectAccess technology it will probably be the reason that tunneling technology is returning you the IPv6 address.
- OSPF
- Open Shortest Path First
- When configuring OSPF process on a router the PID (Process ID) does not need to be the same as on other routers to make it possible to form neighbors. One router can be #router ospf 1 and other router can be #router ospf 2 but they will form a relation if they have hello and death timers set to equal values.
- Network Monitoring
- What’s the best tool to monitor your network and that is not expensive (free)?
- Security Onion is a great group of people developing open source network monitoring tool that has probably more capabilities that all other commercial tools together. You can find the details here: http://securityonion.blogspot.com/
- Static routes
- IPv4 It is very interesting that for static route configured using exit interface (#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 fa0/0) Administrative distance is 1 and for the static route configured using next-hop IP address (3ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.2.1) Administrative distance is 0.
- IPV6 is different, here both static routes with exit interface or next-hop address have the Administrative distance of 1.