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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 play …
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The Middle of Layer Two Redundancy
Sep 7, 2011 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 liveIn 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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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 redundancy in routers, …
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