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Welcome to the Cisco Community Ask Me Anything conversation. Submit your questions from Monday, February 2, 2026, through Friday, February 20, 2026. Our colleagues Amruta Navadagi, Anaya Kalawat, and Mohammad Mehtabuddin will be waiting to assist you...

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amnavada by Cisco Employee
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Dear sir,Iam confusing the switch which model is suitable.1)managed switch with 22 10/100 ports and 2 dual-personality ports for 10/100/1000 connectivity or optional fiber uplinks.2)Layer 2, 48-port 10/100 switch with 2 dual-personality Gigabit ports...

Hi,i load the IOS on a 2621 via tftp(from a tftp server running on a win2003 server) due to memory issues(image too large). this works well with an unmanaged generic switch.but if i try the same with a catalyst 2950, tftp seems to not pass from the w...

lmarx by Community Member
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Hi GuysCan anybody explain me what is layer 2 and layer 3 cascading of 3750-G Switches.The reason I am asking that we are in phase of implementing Multicast for IPTV and the vendor requirements are as follows:1. Edge devices can be layer 2 devices wh...

Which Cisco devices will be the best for access ,distribution and core or collapsed core.1.for over 300 users.2.20 servers.3.Access layer switches connect to the Distribution layer over fiber.4.Server farm connectivity options.

aquastar123 by Community Member
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gusy how we can see which ip is conencted to specific port of the switch (even if its DHCP enabled) for example if someone ask plz check the ip address of the server connected on port 1/33 secondly can we see the mac-address as well of that server co...

We use a Cisco 2610XM router and would like to eliminate the buffer failures in the public buffer pool. Can anyone help me out how to fine tune this?Buffer elements: 997 in free list (500 max allowed) 257569601 hits, 0 misses, 500 createdPubl...

Hi all,For the life of me, I cannot get a fiber connection to work between a Catalyst 2960G with SFP ports, and the 3548XL gigabit ports...what am I missing?I thought the fiber might be the problem, as I was originally using Single-mode. But I tried...

mwall1 by Level 2
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Hi,I have confusing with the following CCNA questions:What is the broadcast address and network for station 192.168.99.77/19?This is a Class B network but using Class C address right?so the answer should be:Subnet is 192.168.96.0?Broadcast IP is 192....

fusenchan by Community Member
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Hi all, when configuring access lists on my router and firewall, woudl i normally use the ip access-list command or just the access-list command ?

Do anyone know if there is a pdf file where you can see the competitive information for switches cisco vs hp, 3com, nortel, etc

fersaldana by Community Member
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hi folks,In a new design I'm deciding wether to go for 2960-24PC-L's or 3560-24PS's as my access layer. I have need for; POE, 24 ports on each switch and to enable either auto-qos or trust cos. No layer 3 is required at the access layer. IP Phones wi...

d.hodgson by Level 3
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Hi-I was going throught the config guide of the 6500 series switches, and I did not find any information on if it is possible to add a SECOND NDE destination netflow server and port.Attempting to add another NDE destination on a 6509 MSFC replaced th...

ngholmieh by Level 2
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