I have been using the Cisco CSR1000V for my home lab setup for a little bit now. There have been some questions on how to set this up for a home lab and I figured I would cover how I am using it. For this post, here is what we are going to build – …
Next Hop Resolution Protocol comes in two fashions on the IOS XR. The first is Cisco proprietary and called Hot-Standby Router Protocol or HSRP and the other is the industry standard called Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol or VRRP. This is something that many customers use in order to maintain the availability of a default gateway…
Next up is MPLS VPN; actually VPNv4 routes are what these actually are since we are only passing IPv4 traffic in this example. So we have this diagram below – CE1 and CE2 are the customer routers and both are running OSPF in Area 0. They need to talk to each other but do not…