We are having a storage area network installed in a few days. The vendor who is installing the equipment has requested that we configure the switch being used for what they are calling link ...

Five things you should know about configuring a Cisco IOS switch Your email has been sent Once you're ready to make the jump to a more sophisticated switch, what do you need to know? Let's answer some ...

He broke it, but was able to get it fixed right away.

In QoS part 3 we gathered the information required to mark DSCP values for unmarked traffic flows for a TMUBPS (Totally Made Up but Plausible Scenario). In this ...

Nutter helps a reader with a new Catalyst switch and a handful of Macs I just converted my company over to a Cisco Catalyst 6509 core switch. Several weeks after the fact I found out that there are a ...

Before creating and configuring a virtual switch in your computer, your computer must have the Hyper-V program installed on the computer and have administrative rights. There are three types of ...

The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a necessary tool for every network administrator. You can easily configure it with just a few commands. SNMP is still the most popular way to monitor ...

I recently installed a new Unifi 24-port switch and a NanoHD access point. Other than setting up a basic WiFi in the house and getting all of my network moved over to the new switch and AP, I had a ...

There’s no such thing as a dedicated iSCSI switch because iSCSI storage traffic runs on Ethernet networks. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have a discussion about iSCSI switches as there are ...

Ethernet-based OT (operations technology) networks are commonplace today, but switch selection and network topology design continue to be an afterthought in many cases. In the past, TCP/IP-based ...