Switching

I believe nortel have this option, where you can combine 2 ports to make an etherchannel, but you can have them going to other switches rather than both going to the same switch, i belive you dont need spanning tree with this too, do cisco do such a ...

My network is very simple, like this: A DSL Modem is connected to a Cisco PIX 501 firewall/router, and a computer is connected to this firewall.Now this PIX 501 box has two interfaces: Inside (192.168.1.1) and the netwroked PC (192.168.1.2). The ou...

My network is very simple, like this: A DSL Modem is connected to a Cisco PIX 501 firewall/router, and a computer is connected to this firewall.Now this PIX 501 box has two interfaces: Inside (192.168.1.1) and the netwroked PC (192.168.1.2). The ou...

Hi all, can anyone help me, I have 2 main switches, the whole lan is just using vlan 1 at the moment, How can i get some switches to use the uplink to 1 of the core switches and some of them to the other, would I just change the port cost or priority...

Hi all, I have come across the wireless bridge, I thought this was just an AP? what is the difference, from my reading, is it where a wireless client connects to a AP, then the AP passes the traffic via wireless to a bridge/AP that connects to the LA...

Hi all, can anyone tell me the main protocols that are used by voip, and the one i should look out for on my network when monitoring ?

I have a gigabit switch port on a 3550 that I wish to limit the bandwidth down to 10 mb. Any recommendations on how to do this? I have tried the config below:class-map match-any Internet match access-group 100!access-list 100 permit ip any any!polic...

Is it possible for both a 2950 switch attached to a 3700 router to restrict multicast flooding? The switch has IGMP Snooping enabled and the router has RGMP enabled, but not the switch, since it doesn?t support it. I don?t want all router and switch ...

Hi,I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this question, but I couldn't find a more appropriate one...I have a Cisco 6509 running CAT OS v8.4(4) experiencing some periodic high CPU utilization. The period is ~30 minutes and it reaches 100%! ...

Hello Experts!i have to Design the following setup: 10 access-switch connected to the core(4507R)via L2 Trunk;the Network it is 100.4.0.0Switch 1 on vlan 50Switch 2 on vlan 51Switch 3 on vlan 52Switch 4 on vlan 53Switch 5 on vlan 54on the CORE:INT vl...

I have taken over a relatively simple network which has 2 cisco catalyst 2950 switches with 48 ports each. these are full and i need to add another switch to the network can i add a Cisco Catalyst 2950SX Switch with 24 ports? if so could someone plea...

Hello, I have a simple questionWhat is the difference in having many ports in a single switch and having multiple switches with less portsI can understand the difference, if you have all the ports in one switch you are placing all the eggs in one ba...