Tag: Networking
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My last post I went over SNMP (check it out) this post I’m going to put these 2 topics together instead of breaking them up. I’ll go over NetFlow first and syslog second. NetFlow The way NetFlow was explained to me was saying it’s like your bank account statement for…
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My last post I talked about Network monitoring and the how important network monitoring is and how it is important to have accurate network monitoring. In this post I’m going to go over SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). SNMP makes it so a tech can know what’s going on…
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Network Monitoring is a very important part of Networking, it can alert you of problems before they come to be major issues, it can alert you as soon as a problem occurs and helps you pinpoint the issue as long as you have your network monitoring configured properly. If you…
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I’ve already done one post regarding EIGRP, but I said I was going to do a second post going over a few more advanced topics regarding EIGRP routing protocol. Check out my previous EIGRP post by clicking here. EIGRP uses Hello packets to check that their neighbors are still active,…
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OSPF stands for Open Shortest Path First it is an interior gateway routing protocol. OSPF is a link-state routing protocol. OSPF is my go to protocol that I like working with, OSPF is not a vendor specific protocol, a number of vendors also run OSPF on their networking devices, I’ve…
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Cisco enterprise phone system is known as Cisco Unified Communications Manager combine with Cisco Unity Connection. I will admit I’m no expert at either of these systems, but I have worked with both Call Manager and Cisco Unity out in the real world, and I’ve had some training on them.…
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Routes! Routes tell network packets how to traffic across the network to get to their required destination by picking the best path. There are three different types of routes such as default routes, static routes and dynamic routes. Each one has its own pros and cons. Routes are stored in…
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With the scaling of today’s networks switches end up connecting to each other, sometimes a switch is connected to a switch to for more access ports in a growing office or connected for redundancy between switches, if a link fails traffic can go through one of the other links that…
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VLANS stands for Virtual Local Area Network they are configured to break up networks in to logically segments into multiple broadcast domains. VLANS can be used to group like devices together such as end user devices, VOIP/Video devices, printers, services or separate traffic from different departments, in some ISP environments…
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Home Lab Setup for CCNA/CCNP/Networking There is always “the great debate” when you’re studying for your certification exams if you should build your lab with hardware or software. In my opinion, what I have done is gone with both. I think you should have 2-3 routers, 2 switches and sometime…
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