Questions tagged [next-hop]
For questions about the next gateway to which packets should be forwarded along the path to their final destination. One technique to make content of a routing table smaller is called next-hop routing.
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What is Pipe model in MPLS, and for what scenarios and situations is it used, in most simpliest terms?
I know there is Short-Pipe model and Uniform Pipe model. What is the difference between tunneled traffic PHB and tunnel PHB in Short-Pipe model?
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What happens if the layer 2 destination MAC address mismatches?
I was wondering, what happens if I send a packet with layer 2 destination (say 1ebf) different that what will receive it, lets say a router (mac 22ff) recieves it. Will it drop the packet? Or ...
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What are the commands to configure static routes using next-hop IP addresses?
Given the network topology above and that X in all subnets should be replaced with 1.
What are the commands to configure static routes using the next-hop IP addresses on r1 and r2, given that you are ...
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Why do IP(v6) routes require a next hop IP(v6) address and not just a MAC Address?
My understanding of how you "ask" a router to route a packet for you is that you simply put the IP(v6) address of the destination host and the MAC address of the router you are routing via ...
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Routing infrastructure doubt. It is a functionally design this?
I have design the following network diagram, but I cannot figure out if it could cause some issue on the network:
Some detail about the infrastructure:
Network connect Ext rtr A, Int rtr B and C is ...
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F5 Policy Based Routing - how do you change next hop without any conditions?
I'm trying to change the nexthop for a virtual server in F5. I have read this article.
I have tried using the this irule
{
nexthop internal 10.10.0.2
}
by itself and it doesn't work. I also have ...
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Traceroute command last hop cannot be reached
By running the traceroute command below I obtained this output:
traceroute www.google.com -q 3 -m 60
traceroute to www.google.com (172.217.169.36), 60 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gateway (10.81.62....
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Can non-recursive BGP route be used to determine next-hop for recursive BGP route?
In BGP recursive scenario, the recursive route is taking an unexpected next-hop. Here is the routing table:
S* 0.0.0.0/0 [10/0] via 10.10.10.1, wan
B 172.16.5.0/24 [20/0] via 172.80.80.1, MPLS, ...
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the meaning of static routes and next hop
i configured a network topology on cisco packet tracer to learn about the static routing, as shown in figure below
i spent a lot of time to ensure the connectivity between server0 and server2(cause i'...
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minimum hop limit for a packet where there are n routers between source and destination
I am having some confusion while calculating he minimum hop limit ...
consider following scenario:
(source)-------(R1)--------(R2)--------(destination)
Now when an IP datagram is supposed to travel ...
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Difference in number of hops in Traceroute
I was experimenting with some of the network monitoring commands in cmd and I noticed that there's a significant difference in the number of hops in the output of tracert for different hosts. For ...
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Route selection in RIPv2 and RIPng (equal hop count)
How do RIPv2/RIPng select between equal routes? Randomly?
For example, 2 broadcast domains, 5 routers, all running RIPv2 and RIPng. The | pipes represent a switch:
R01
| R02
| R03 |
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Junos BGP physical Next-hop
VJX 0,1,3 are setup to be RR’s for this simple test , i want to know why link p5 is always preferred even though the physical next-hop changes , and the IGP path to the next-hop is is not via p5 ...
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