Thanks to the virtually infinite bandwidth of fiber—or rather, the empty tubes that can hold multi-fiber cables—the Internet has continued to get faster for almost four decades, with congestion only ...

Folks need to understand what IP routing is when it comes to networking. But not only that, they should also be familiar with the various IP routing protocols. This article will explain everything ...

Got into a what could have been a heated argument today with one of the guys at work. For various reasons I chose not to escalate the discussion, but rather decided to ask you guys. We have a Cisco ...

Static routing allows you to directly control the traffic path for data on your local network as well as the destination of outbound Internet traffic. Linksys routers provide a simple method to manage ...

Sangoma is a manufacturer of PCI-based WAN interface cards. For demonstrations and redundancy, we have two separate high-speed Internet connections: a full T1 carrying Frame Relay, using our PCI S5148 ...

Internet connectivity issues this week which saw many sites become unreachable were caused by a sudden spike in announcements of traffic routes between networks, which in turn pushed core routers over ...

Joel is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of security, networking and messaging. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @joelsnyder. If switching is critical to the enterprise, routing is ...

Routing is the process of determining where to send data packets that are destined for addresses outside the local network. Routers gather and maintain routing information to enable the transmission ...

A database in a router that contains the current network topology. For details, see routing protocol and content-addressable memory. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

Forwarding table is used for address lookups. Forwarding table(s) is a copy of the routing table.