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Understanding EIGRP #1

prepared by SURAJ (imeansuraj@gmail.com) Replaced the Interior Gateway Routing Protocol It was Cisco proprietary till mid-2013. Doesn’t use UDP or TCP since it doesn’t need the port numbers to work with. It uses Cisco’s Reliable Transport Protocol (protocol number 88). Administrative Distance of a routing information from an EIGRP enabled router outside the Autonomous System is 170 and inside the Autonomous System is 90. Creates an autonomous system including all the routers that it wants to transfer data within, this autonomous system is of 16 bits. New metric of EIGRP is of 64 bits, the earlier composite metric of EIGRP was of 48 bits while IGRP had a metric of 24 bits Working -   Discovers neighbours by sending hello packets -   Exchanges information with hellos via 224.0.0.10 (multicast address for EIGRP) -   As soon as the router doesn’t receive them in the hold time it will drop the neighbour relationship called   adjacency   and EIGRP m...

Arab Adventures: King's Corridor #2

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Genre: Black and White Location: Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Muscat    

KNOW the Pre-Marital Sex

Last night I was chatting with one of my female friends with usual banters and she suddenly got into how interesting her relationship's become with her new found boy-friend. When I further asked whether she had met the perfect husband in him, she said far from it. And she obviously is not the first person in my circle to say so. With widespread availability of contraceptives and condoms the times have definitely changed. One  doesn't  have to deal with issues revolving sex any more. Though it is still strongly frowned upon in the Islamic culture, Hindu culture is slowly opening up to it knowing there is no way out. I for one am completely for it. Marriages earlier was about finding the perfect mate in terms of financial security and social status. These parameter are hardly applicable these days. They have forayed one step further and now seek suitability in emotional, physical as well as sexual sense. They rarely have marriage on their cards every time they dive into a ...