Archive for 'IP Services' Category
GLBP Explained
GLBP, an acronym for Gateway Load Balancing Protocol, is a virtual gateway protocol similar to HSRP and VRRP. However, unlike its little brothers, GLBP is capable of using multiple physical gateways at the same time. As we know, a single HSRP or VRRP ...
Tricks with Local Policy Routing
Cisco IOS has a special feature called local policy routing, which permits to apply a route-map to local (router-generated) traffic. The first way we can use this feature is to re-circulate local traffic (and force it re-enter the router). Here’...
Dealing with Fragmented Traffic
Fragmented IPv4 traffic may cause you a lot of problems in real life. Not only it increases the load on router CPUs, but also impacts applications performance (e.g. TCP needs to re-send the whole packet on a single fragment loss). In addition to that,...