Lately I have had less free time, which has resulted in the fact that this is the first article in over a year. Also I’ve been using mostly CentOS at my job and FreeBSD got out of the focus. But that doesn’t mean that I abandoned FreeBSD, just that solutions that require less time to set up and maintain got my attention.
I mean Routing Information Protocol of course, not rest in peace! RIP is one of the most basic and easy-to-use routing protocols there is. It has its limitations, but it can be a viable solution for small environments. With RIP it is possible to exchange routing information between devices, and as it is a standard protocol, not only FreeBSD or Linux can use it, but it’s also implemented in many different networking devices, such as routers, firewalls, and even some layer 3 switches.
In this article I would like to introduce the very basics of networking in order to allow the reader to be able to separate VMs from each other or to organize them into logically different segments. This is far from a detailed description of networks, of course!
LLDP, or Link Layer Discovery Protocol allows system administrators to easily map the network, eliminating the need to physically run the cables in a rack. LLDP is a protocol used to send and receive information about a neighboring device connected directly to a networking interface.