High-Availability

Design & Architecture

The complexity required for robustness, often goes against robustness

In the past few months we have seen major outages from United Airlines, the NYSE, and the Wall Street Journal.

2016.04.14 · 3 min
Routing

OSPF Graceful Shutdown

Striving to reach that last 9? Looking for a way to increase your uptime while still being able to do maintenance on your network?

2011.02.21 · 5 min
Routing

HSRP, VRRPd, and GLBP Compared

In the world of first hop redundancy, we have plenty of choices. In order to make the right decision for your network you should know the basics regarding all three.

2010.10.21 · 5 min
Routing

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) is a UDP-based protocol that provides fast (very fast!) routing protocol independent detection of layer-3 next hop failures.

2010.05.24 · 6 min