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Types of WAN Links
Oct 19, 2011 · 2 min read · CCENT CCNA Cisco General Internet Local Area Network Network networking Routing technology WAN WAN optimization Wide area network ·I've found this table that I created a while ago and it lists common WAN connections that businesses use. I have used this table like a reference guide to familiar myself into other protocols. People don't think of it much but the WAN is a different beast compared the LAN as it uses different protocols besides …
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Distance Vector Routing
Jun 15, 2011 · 3 min read · CCENT CCNA Cisco cisco Cisco IOS Cisco Systems Distance-vector routing protocol Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol General ICND1 ICND2 Internet Internet Protocol Network Layer networking Open Shortest Path First router Routing Routing Information Protocol Routing protocol software technology tutorial Tutorials ·Couple weeks ago I talked about routing protocols and in the post I mentioned two routing protocol features distance vector and link state. Although these protocols fundamentally do the same thing by getting information on remote networks they get this information in a different way. For today let's introduce distance …
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World IPv6 Day!!
Jun 8, 2011 · 2 min read · computers General Internet Internet service provider Internet Society IP address ipv4 ipv6 networking router software technology World IPv6 Day ·IPv6 So what is IPv6 day? Today major companies like Google, Facebook, Yahoo and ISPs (Internet Service Providers) test their IPv6 deployments. Why is this important? Well if you follow IPv4 news you might already know that IPv4 addresses have been exhausted and the need to move to different address space is critical, …
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Classful vs. Classless Routing
Cloud-Computing-icon Before the internet and general networking become popular into what it is now, there were and still are routing protocols that only do classful routing. What is classful routing? When I was talking about Dynamic Routing earlier (See the post Dynamic Routing Protocols) I mentioned there was a …
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Understanding VTP
Some people hate it, some people love it. It's the Cisco proprietary VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) which in short means that Cisco switches can exchange VLAN configuration, instead of manually configuring each switch with the same VLANs. I also suggest if you don't know what a VLAN is check out the post Creating VLANs …
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