Switching

Hi guys, just a quick one. I've just purchased some kit 2 x 2501 Routers and 1 x 2924 Switch. I've been studying for me CCENT for 3 months now and I'm very close to the exam (well I think I am) and I feel comfortable with each topics... but, this thr...

Suppose I have 2 core switches at seperate locations with a GiG ethernet connection between the switches. Right now the GiG Ethernet connection is configured as a dot1q trunk which is required to carry a vendor's Layer 2 proprietary traffic between ...

I am having a tough time convincing my manager about the benefits of enabling VTP and Pruning in an environment consisting of 7 stacked switches and 3 VLANs. He is convinced tha “VTP just has all its own problems, and maintenance issues”. Can som...

I am out of banding into my router fine. My username prompt comes up but when I type in the username it is like nothing happens. I hit enter and nothing happens. Eventually it times out on me. This ever happened to anyone before?Hayes AT external...

Need help configuring port for full 1000. speed 1000 but duplex is set at auto. How do I change it?

I am an embedded software developer, and have a need to find a switch that will support two LAN's, with the traffic completely segregated. Can any of Cisco's switches do this? What would such a feature be called?Here's how it will be used:When deve...

Hi all!I have a ring topology with 5 switches running MST Standard with 2 instances. The Aggregation switch is configured within a MST Region, and the others 4 switches belong to another MST Region. I am doing some tests to find out the real converge...

Hi!I'm trying make a lab-setup using a Cisco 1841 (IOS 12.4(4)T2) for eth-bridging over L2TP using BCP/PPP/L2TPaccording to RFC 3518. The peer-end (LAC) of the connection is a Linux device running xl2tpdtogether with a patched pppd supporting bcp.The...

Hi to all,I wanted to know if Cisco has built load balancers which support MAC ACLs like on its switches. I know that some Cisco Load Balancers support standard IP and Named IP ACLs. But what abt standard MAC and Named MAC ACLs?Thx in advance..Warm r...

Hello all,I have a video streaming multicast server witch performs rather poorly in a LAN environment. I used IGMP snooping for multicast and that part works just fine. However some of the clients are experiencing unacceptable latency and jitter (the...

hi there,i got a 1841 router and i have a dsl - line. i get a public ip, but i do not have access to the internet. i have no idea why... can anyone help me? thanks a lot.actual config:Current configuration : 1964 bytes!! Last configuration change at ...

Im working with my server team and they are requesting i change the port setting on the 3350 to auto speed. I understand that gig ports can only be set to full. But I am used to seeing "auto" in the show interface command...but i am not seeing it he...

Failed the CCNA once already, got whomped by the NAT lab and now looking to get a NAT lab running at home to work on it with.I have a 3640, a 3550 and a 2950 to work with. I also have cable modem service with a dynamic IP assigned ua DHCP.Is it possi...