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Basic Understanding of EtherChannel

Jan 4, 2012 · 3 min read · CCNA Cisco cisco EtherChannel General IP address Link aggregation MAC address networking Source port technology tutorial ·

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network cables Let's start the New Year with understanding EtherChannel which is having more than one link connected to a server, switch, or router and treating it like one logical link. This is a fault-tolerant technique that is becoming a common setup in highly available, core devices. Cisco has come up with their …

Color Code Your Routers

Nov 30, 2011 · 3 min read · Catalyst switch Cisco cisco Cisco IOS Command-line interface Configure script General networking router software technology tutorial Tutorials ·

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I came across an interesting idea, what if you could color code your devices in command line? So such as if you were operating routers at a core level you could color code the CLI to the color red, and the branch routers green and etc. I wasn't sure if this would possible but doing some searching through the internet I …

Network Troubleshooting

Nov 11, 2011 · 4 min read · Cisco cisco Cisco Troubleshooting computers General Hardware Network administrator Network management networking operating systems router software Troubleshoot Troubleshooting ·

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Troubleshooting The thing that makes networks awesome is the fact that once you setup a network you're not done. That may sound like a drawback but it is excellent job security! Engineers or administrators must watch the performance of an organization's network to make sure that productivity is not affected. Network …

OSPF...What a Protocol!

Nov 2, 2011 · 4 min read · CCNA Cisco cisco General ICND2 Internet Engineering Task Force IS-IS Link-state advertisement Link-state routing protocol networking Open Shortest Path First OSPF router Tutorials ·

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For today let's discuss a routing protocol that was being thought of in 1987 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). OSPF currently has three versions and the first version was in the 1980s when the internet was still being used for research. What is interesting about the first version of OSPF is although one …

How to Configure SSH on Dell Power-Connect

Oct 26, 2011 · 4 min read · Command-line interface Data Link Layer Dell General IP address networking Powerconnect Secure Shell Security Software SSH technology tutorial Tutorials ·

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keys Although not dealing with Cisco directly Dell switches are around in network closets and with my limited experience with them I thought this would be a perfect blog post to show the differences between Dell and Cisco. I like to think of Dell CLI like a dumb downed version of the Cisco CLI so I had some time to …