Switching

Hi all, can routers route multicast ? is this done by default and if so is it easy to set up ?also if you do route it do you use a routing protocol or static ?

Hi all, with tcp, say im using an ethernet card with 1500 bytes mtu, am I right in saying if an ip packet exceeds this, tcp will recognise it and perform segmentation ?

The network was working good with 2 3560G switches working as core switch.We had a power failure and since then the network is only stable if 1 core switch is running. if we turn on the 2nd everything goes down after 5 minutes. it might come back aft...

Hi,Speaking about IGMP snooping performance, is the ASIC/CAM of C2960 Layer 3 aware?Best ones Leo

have two cisco 4507 Switches one is acting as VTP server and switch 2 is client. Both switch are trunk and i have confiugred the layer 2 Ether Channel on these two trunks. I have around 7 vlans on switches and for each vlan i made a SVI and also con...

I have a small hurdle to get over, hopefully one of you can assist.brief overview:2 sites; 1 main office 1 remote sitemain office:cisco 1801 adsl POTSWindows 2003 sbsinternal - 192.168.1.xexternal interface - 192.168.3.xremote branch:cisco 857 adsl P...

So let's see.I have two VPN routers that are connected to two seperate Switches for failover.I'm getting CRC erros on the switchport that the router is plugged into (no matter what port I plug it into) I've verified duplex and speed, I've also change...

Hi all,I am curious about a simple thing :) Lets say we got two routers connected through a hub. Attached is a simple topology. Say Router 1 has two static route entries. First pointing out to Router 2 and second to router 3. when router 2 gets disco...

Hello All,I am in the process of connecting two switches together. One happens to be a cisco layer 3 switch while the other is an HP procurve layer 3 switch. Right now there are 8 ports on our HP switch that are set in the 172. vlan, however, there p...

Hi all, is there a reason we cannot load balance to 2 difference switches at layer 2, is it because a mac address can only exsist on 1 trunk port on a switch ? how come layer 3 does not mind load balancing buy layer 2 does ?

My question relates to a Cisco 6009 running CatOS 7.6(10) with spantree PVST+. I want to migrate a non-trunk port to a 802.1q trunk port keeping the original VLAN as the native VLAN. Vonnected to the port is a Nokia IP350 that supports 802.1q trunkin...

Hello People,We have a router, getting a 100 mg feed, which are mulitcast traffic. When I check the interface, input queue size is 0, and it never builds up, but time to time it just drops packets and "drops" counter goes up. Input queue: 0/4096/...