Switches features

[Yea9632]

Hi everyone !

i'm a fresh network engineer and i'm looking for your advice

i just want to learn more about "switching " features , and how to understand them in a good way, other features than STP, vPC and fabricpath for nexus switches , VSS for catalyst switches 

i would be thankful if you suggest me more features to learn (not only the 'High availability' features), and if there're some documents about those 

Than you in advance, sorry for my bad English  

[InayathUlla Sharieff]

Below are the few tech on switching side:-

Different types of switches.

How does ARP/rarp/garp works.

Mac address learning.

How switch operates. The packet flow on switch.

Difference between layer 2 and layer3 switch.

STP-all types of spanning tree protocol,and difference between the same.

Etherchannel concept.

Hsrp/vrrp/glbp.

Broadcast/unicast/multicast difference.

QoS.

Vlan/vtp:-concept.

Dhcp concept

Security:-port security

Acl/vacl/Mac based acl.

Hth

Regard

Inayath

[Yea9632]

Thank you Inayath for your replay

i have just one last question

i have heard that nexus switches will be the most switches used in LAN architectures in the future ( not only in Datacenters, but also in campus architectures) because they provide many features as i have wrote before (vPC, Fpath .. )

is the're some "new" features in nexus (NX-OS) switches, that will help LAN architectures  ?

[InayathUlla Sharieff · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Following are the features you have on Nexus:-

1- VPC

2- Fabricpath

3- OTV

4- Private VLANs

5- Multicast

6- VDC

7- FEX

HTH

Regards

Inayath

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[Yea9632]

Thank you for your replay