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​ARP

What Is ARP? ARP stands for Address Resolution Protocol. It is a method of mapping a layer 3 protocol address to a layer 2 or hardware address. In most cases, ARP maps an IP address to an Ethernet MAC address. Something to be aware of is that ARP is used with IPv4. IPv6 uses the […]

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​Junos And BGP Community Strings

BGP community strings are widely used in routing policy. In this post we’re going to look at: Lab Setup All of the examples that follow are based on the following lab setup. VMX-2 is advertising the following routes to vMX-1. Route Community Strings 172.16.0.0/24 65001:100 65002:50 172.16.1.0/24 65001:200 65003:6789 172.16.2.0/24 65001:300 65002:50 172.16.3.0/24 65001:400 65003:9876

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BGP Community Strings

BGP community strings are a way of marking or tagging a route. Routing policy can then match on a community string, and take a defined action. They are typically used in one of two ways: Types Of Community Strings Broadly speaking, there are three types of community strings. Standard communities are 4 bytes long and

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