Basic Network Automation with Ansible Galaxy IOS Collection

Introduction

One great resource you can use when learning and using Ansible for network automation, or any automation with Ansible for that matter, is Ansible Galaxy. Ansible Galaxy is a place for the Ansible community to share roles and collections for others to use. For this post I will highlight some of the roles found within the Cisco IOS collection.

How ARP works

Introduction

Learning and mastering the fundamentals are key to becoming a successful network engineer. In this blog post, I will be showing how ARP works. ARP is one of the fundamental protocols when dealing with today’s networks. While ARP itself works automatically and without any configuration, knowing how it works will help you really understand how traffic flows through the network. Before we go into the technical details, we first need to know why ARP is even required.