I know how to make a trunk between a Linux machine and a single Cisco switch so that if one of the network cards or cables fails the link is still available. However, I have a bladesystem that has ...

I'm a bit stumped on this one, and having a background in HP switches is making it worse. I have a metro-e connection that will have up to 100 VLANs coming in on it. This is connected to a GigE port ...

Phil Edholm, Nortel enterprise CTO has posted his take on Cisco’s upgrade last month to the Cisco Catalyst 6500 that improves the product’s ability to support real-time enterprise communication and ...

To begin, we must have a more formal definition of what a LAN is. LAN stands for local area network. Hubs and switches usually are thought of as participating in a single LAN. Normally, if you connect ...

In Cisco LAN switch environments, the native VLAN is typically untagged on 802.1Q trunk ports. This can lead to a security vulnerability in your network environment. It is a best practice to ...

Centralizing your WAN architecture is a cornerstone of the strategy for capturing SIP Trunk savings. Cisco says: Keeping a distributed network may be the way to go. The consensus out of the SIP ...