Category Archives: Routing Protocol

PPP – Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol Explained with Examples.

What Is Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP)? Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP) is a protocol used in network security for the validation of a user’s identity.It is primarily used to authenticate a user or a network host to an authenticating entity, such as a server.CHAP is commonly used in Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) connections, which are often found in… Read More »

QoS: Bandwidth, Delay, Jitter, and Loss Explained.

Some obstacles can cause a breach or delay even loss of communication over the network. As the internet grows beyond prediction, the modern network’s support for traffic is getting beyond the traditional data types and becomes increasingly difficult to maintain. Communication over the network involves email, file sharing, or web traffic and increasingly, data networks share a common… Read More »

QOS: Congestion Management Tools Explained.

QOS: Understanding QoS MARKING The term marking refers to a type of QoS tool that classifies packets based on their header contents and then marks the message by changing some bits in specific header fields. This means that the QoS tool changes one or more header fields, setting a value in the header. How QOS marking works… Traditionally,… Read More »

Quality Of Service – QOS – Explained with Example.

What Is QoS? Quality of Service (QoS) in networking refers to the management of network resources to ensure the best performance of specific types of data transmission. The primary goal of QoS is to provide priority, including dedicated bandwidth, controlled jitter and congestion, and improved loss situations. It’s used to guarantee a certain level of a network service’s… Read More »

RIP Routing Loop Explained.

Split Horizon, Route Poisoning and Holddown Explained. Split Horizon RIP as a distance vector protocol is also susceptible to routing loops (network problem which enables a data packet to continually be routed through the same routers over and over. The data packets continue to be routed within the network in an endless circle.). Split horizon is one of… Read More »