Wildcard Mask

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Before we can start to explain how routing protocols work, we need an understanding of wildcard masks.   The concept of wildcard mask is one that many people struggle with at first, but with a little time and practice it’s becomes second nature. Converting a full class subnet mask into a wildcard mask quite straight […]

Default Gateway of Last Resort

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In yesterday’s post ‘Static Routing’ we saw that we needed to create a static route to allow the Cisco router “AOIP.ORG” to ping “R2”. The static route that we created was ‘ip route 10.0.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1’ and ping was successful to the IP address 10.0.1.2 (R2’s Serial interface). The problem with that configuration was that […]