Switching

Hi,I am about to purchase a networking solution for about 180 users and 10 servers.My question is should I use a big modular switch like 4506 or buy 7-9 3750 switches and stack them together?From a financial point of view the 4506 costs more than the...

Hi,,One Server is connected with 3750 switch as vlan 20. But server has been configured by clustering of x.x.x.67 & x.x.x.66 IP and cluster IP is x.x.x.68, when any request is going out from server its showing source ip either .67 or .66, but we want...

I have a Cisco 2651 router running IOS 12.2(10r)1. I'm trying to determine if there is a bottleneck at the router itself or on my local segment. Are there are utilites on the router or out there to easily troubleshoot the problem?

The customer has an old catalyst 5500, and wishes to do an upgrade to the last version, but I was not able to find what is the feature set that he can download the ios. The show version displays the following:Cisco Internetwork Operating System Softw...

I am trying to put together a config for a 2960 switch (running 12.2(25)SEE3 C2960-LANBASE-M) that will give priority to voice packets which are already marked with DSCP 40 by the VoIP phone systems. I have successfully used Cisco 2950 switches to do...

I have an issue with VLANing. I have everything configured properly on 8 switches and a router. This is a router-on-a stick design. I am planning on using 5 3560 Cat switches with VLAN 54(default gateway 10.10.54.1 VLAN1 10.10.54.2) and 3 3560 Cat sw...

I am familiar with how the encapsulation process works but I cannot find any good information on how encapsulation works when turning on Jumbo frames. Cisco's 3750 documentation referees to Jumbo Frames. Now is Cisco just confusing me or are they act...

Hi, could some one confirm the following. If I have an EtherChannel that consists of 2 physical circuits, is a single data transfer able to use both physical circuits or is it limited to just one circuit?Thanks James.

Hi,I am looking forward to install the high end cat 4500s with POE enabled and all the cables are cat 6a for my new facility. Can anybody let me know of any issue of using POE with cat 6a. Please advice if anybody know so that I can use the proper ci...

Our internal network has a requirement to support ethernet packets whose source MAC address is that of broadcast. This obviously isn't something that's standard and generally supported, and most of the managed switches we've found outright block the...

I get the message in the conversation title when I enter the sh ver command "Patching is not available since the system is not running from an installed image. To install please use the "install file" command".What should be done here?

Solarwinds is reporting that teh 6506-E Version 12.2(18)SXF9 is running at 92%. Below is the output of show memory:System Memory: 524288K total, 252632K used, 271656K free, 1000K kernel reserved.Am I missing something here?