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The Three Tiers
Jan 21, 2012 · 3 min read · CCENT CCNA Cisco cisco Cisco Systems collapsed core Data Communications distribution layer General hierarchical network ICND1 ICND2 Network Network Layer networking Security security technology Virtual LAN ·network_switch Working towards the CCNA Cisco talks about a hierarchical network there are three layers to this design. Access Layer, distribution layer and the core layer. Each of them have their own set of functions and is also considered to be a best practice when the network continues to grow and for redundancy …
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The Middle of Layer Two Redundancy
Sep 7, 2011 · 3 min read · Broadcast radiation CCNA CCNA Security Cisco cisco Cisco IOS Data Link Layer Ethernet frame General ICND2 IEEE IEEE 802.1D Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Local Area Network MAC address Network Layer networking OSI model Redundancy Redundancy (engineering) security Software software Spanning Tree Protocol STP technology Time to live ·In the month of August I talked about the "beginnings" of layer two redundancy mainly looking at the basic foundations and fundamentals of having layer two redundancy. Let's continue are discussion about redundancy in the layer two environment. To review what STP does (Spanning Tree Protocol) it works at …
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The Beginnings of Layer Two Redundancy
network-diagram In a perfect world we would never need redundancy on a network infrastructure, but as you know as well as I know we don't live in a perfect world. Hardware will eventually fail, bottlenecks will appear, and the speed of our network will become slower when we max the bandwidth on links. So having …
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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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