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Beginners guide to Virtual Routing & Forwarding

What is VRF?

Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is a technology that allows multiple instances of a routing table to co-exist within the same router at the same time.

Because the routing instances are independent, overlapping IP addresses can be used without conflicting with each other.

The multiple Routing instances can be made to traverse different path (ie take different outgoing interfaces).

VRFs are the same methods of network isolation/virtualization as VLANs.

Know more about VRF Basics - https://ipwithease.com/vrf-basics/

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