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Hi everyone,I’ve been setting up a few enterprise networks recently and ended up using both the Cisco Catalyst 9200 and 9300 switches. On paper, they look pretty similar — both offer Layer 3 features, PoE+, stacking, and solid reliability.But in real...
The "DHCP failed. APIPA is being used" message usually means the laptop couldn't get an IP address from the DHCP server, so it assigned itself a temporary address instead. The inactive wireless adapter often indicates it's disabled, missing the corre...
The 350W power supply might be fine depending on your setup, but it really depends on what modules and PoE load (If any) you are using. The C9300-48S itself does not draw a huge amount of power without heavy PoE devices attached, so if you are not po...
You are correct - Cisco switches like the C9300-24T and C3650 only send system logs to a syslog server by default. They do not log user-generated traffic the same way firewalls do.If you need to analyze user traffic, you will want to set up NetFlow o...
You’re right — using a /32 on a physical or VLAN interface doesn’t make much sense in this case. Cisco IOS only allows /32 on loopback interfaces because they represent a single host, not a network.For point-to-point links, the standard is usually a ...
Thanks for the reply — that actually clears things up quite a bit. You’re right, I probably won’t notice much difference in day-to-day use unless the network gets really busy.Most of my VLANs handle mixed traffic (voice, data, a few IoT devices), so ...
