VRRP, IPv6, and the “Why” Question

Ivan Pelpnjak has an interesting post (H/T to Ethan Banks) critiquing Cisco’s VRRP v3 CLI implementation for IPv6.  It got me thinking about a question I was told never to ask:  “Why?” Never ask why? Back when I really wanted to get into networking, I took a five-day bootcamp with Global Knowledge taught by a gentleman […]

Juniper’s mysterious inet.3 table

When I first started configuring MPLS on Juniper routers, I came across the strange and mysterious inet.3 table.  What could it possibly be?  When I worked in Cisco TAC I handled hundreds of MPLS VPN cases, but I never had encountered anything quite like inet.3 in IOS land.  As I researched inet.3 I found the […]