September 2022
Beginner
736 pages
20h 54m
English
Content preview from Cisco Data Center Fundamentals
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Chapter 6
Nexus Switch Routing
Modern-day data centers have rapidly evolving trends and technologies that underscore the need for scale and fast convergence. In order to efficiently route traffic within the data center, Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) are deployed either in the network core or within the underlay network. The IGPs commonly used today are Open Shortest Path First Protocol (OSPF) and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP). In addition, traditional IP communication allows a host to send packets to a single host (unicast transmission) or to all hosts (broadcast transmission). IP multicast provides a third possibility: allowing a host to send packets to a subset of all hosts as a group transmission. Protocol-Independent ...