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I am a bit confused with Multicast. I know receivers that want to join a specific multicast group use IGMP to request to join to the group (lets say 239.4.1.1). My question is on the source side. Does the source also use IGMP to join the group? Or ho...
I saw a network working with EIGRP and resdistributing a static default route into it. I did not find the "default metrics" to redistribute into EIGRP but the static default route works and is redistributed. My understanding was that everytime you re...
My monitoring system is reporting that VLAN X is 100% utilization in my 6509. That VLAN is used to pass traffic between two 10G access ports in that VLAN X. It seems that by default the VLAN bandwidth is 1G, however i am passing more traffic than tha...
I have a simple question that might be easy to answer but if you have a supporting document please provide the link. The question is:Is it recommended to have Netflow running permanently in a 6509 or is it a tool that needs to be enable only as neede...
We have:(s72033_rp-IPSERVICESK9_WAN-M), Version 12.2(33)SXJNetflow is disabled and we do not want to enable it since we saw some performance issues and we were told not to enable it again. At some point we will need to enable it, that is why i am thi...
Lets see. Lets say 3 switches are connected to the same segment, at the begining all of them will anounce their root path cost to the segment and they will all agree that one of them (let's say SW-A) wins and it will have the designated port. SW-B an...
default-gateway ........... is the port of exit from your subnet (exit of a broadcast domain) to another subnet, WAN, etc. It is usually the interface in the router to wich your network is connected. You define it as the IP address of the router conn...
I used 3 routers and 2 switches and it was more than enogh. I would say 2 routers and 2 switches are enough but if you want more complicate scenarios then get more than that.