Goodbye To You EIGRP Neighbor

So I ran into this inform message today that I had never seem before:

As it turns out, an improvement in 12.3(14) added the Goodbye message to let EIGRP peers know the local process was being brought down.  A note in the Cisco documentation indicated that if there is a device running an earlier version of [...]

BGP Synchronization Rule

BGP Synchronization Scenarios

The use of BGP on multiple routers within a single Autonomous System presents complications in configuration due to the fact that internal BGP has no loop prevention mechanism.  To review; BGP uses AS-Path as its loop prevention mechanism.  Network reachability information received from an eBGP peer is sent with [...]

Pull your head out of your 1000BASE-T SFP’s.

…verify interconnect configurations and give the implementation engineers the peace of knowing they can dispatch a device for install and know that it will come up.