Other Network Architecture Subjects

Hi,I'm working as a Cisco instructor, and one of my students asked me this question: If a packet have to pass by multiple swithces, is the packet ISL or dot1q encapsulated only one time (the frame is only tagged at the entry-switch, and untagged at t...

Having some troubles with (I think) the auto-sensing crossover state functionality of Compaq's 10/100/1000 NIC.We have five identical Proliant 1600 servers - each with a new NC7131 Gigabit over copper NIC. The switch is a New Catalyst 3508G XL with ...

OK - I got this reply from my Acct. Mgr today in response to trying to find out if there were copper GBICS for my Cat4000 18-port GIG card:************************************No, there is not a copper GBIC for the WS-X4418-GB as this module is for fi...

We are a large frame relay shop. We have about 500 access sites connecting back to corporate via frame relay. We have both Cisco and Nortel routers at the access sites but are currently switching over toa total Cisco solution. We have two corporate...

I'm looking for a 12 port 100 base FX switch. Something simular to the Catalyst 3512, however I need 100 base FX. Is there such an animal?

I am attempting to configure my 1605R to utilize NTP for it's system/hardware time. I have never configured NTP on such a low-end device. I have always forced syncronization using "ntp update-calendar", but this appears to be missing. I have the f...

anybody knows how to fix a frame relay problem? i moved my servers a floor down and now our remote offices can't connect to our servers. they used to dial up to our server to a certain application we have and now both internet and our citrix are non-...

I've got a 2600, three ports. They're set up as 10.1.1.0, 10.1.2.0, 10.1.3.0. All have the subnet mask of 255.255.255.0Routing itself seems to work fine. I can ping subnets across the router. I have a domain sitting on the 10.1.1.0 segment. I'm tryin...

In OSPF before exchanging the database, routers choose who will be the master and slave. How will they choose the master and slave? Does it depend from priority or router ID? Any suggestions.../Rustam

Greetings......I have a client`s link configured on my FE interface as secondry.I want to know as to how do i set restriction on its usage/througput of say 128K or 256K on that link.Also how do i make my MRTG acknowledge that interface for monitoring...

Hi,I have a 1605R that I want to use to share out my cable modem connection. I have a Linksys Broadband router that is doing the job now but, I want to learn more about cisco so I am undertaking this little project. I would just like to go over my pl...

Greetings......I am running a BGP session with a carrier network and have terminated its link on my FE 0/1 3660 router.For my location whatever bandwidth i am having is thru this link .I am seeing a lot of COLLISIONs on that interface.the "counter ...

My employer has a leg of an IP network with 2240 users all running off the same port of a router. I'm not exagerating, and they want me to fix the bandwidth issue that everyone is complaining about. Greg

Two 2502 routers. Connected with each other by a Andrew token ring MAU 8228 plus. Configured IP on each token ring interface on the routers. Show interfaces tokenring shows that port is up, protocol is up. Router can ping the token ring interface its...

Has anyone gotten or tried to run CW2K on a Linux box? And for that matter what about Network Registrar? Just thought I'd ask before I tried it. Bill