OSPF OSPF Filtering: area range vs filter-list vs distribute-list vs summary-address OSPF gives you four different ways to stop a prefix from getting somewhere, and they are not interchangeable. Two of J Jul 12, 2026 8 min read
OSPF The OSPF Forwarding Address: Why Your Type 5 Route Goes the Wrong Way Here is a routing puzzle. An OSPF router has a route to an external network. The route is in the J Jul 12, 2026 7 min read
OSPF OSPF Stub Router: max-metric router-lsa and Graceful Maintenance You need to reload a core router. It is carrying live traffic. The naive approach - just reload it - drops every J Jul 12, 2026 6 min read
OSPF OSPF Prefix Suppression: Shrinking the Routing Table Look at your routing table and count how many of those prefixes anyone actually sends traffic to. In a typical J Jul 12, 2026 6 min read
OSPF OSPF SPF and LSA Throttling Timers: Tuning Convergence Safely OSPF converges fast. That is its whole reason for existing. But "fast" is a tuning decision, and the J Jul 12, 2026 6 min read
BGP Expert BGP Troubleshooting: Five Broken Scenarios, Ticket Style The CCIE troubleshooting section does not ask you to explain BGP. It hands you a broken network and a clock. J Jul 12, 2026 10 min read