Decisions, Decisions When configuring high availability gateways between multiple routers you only have a couple of options to choose from. If you have all Cisco routers chances are you will be configuring and using HSRP to provide redundancy between your routers. If you have Juniper, Foundry (Brocade), or any another router you’ll most likely use [...]

If any technology in networking  had identity issues, it would have to be Link Aggregation.   This simple process can never seem to make up its mind what it wants to be called. Link aggregation is the process of combining two or more connections into a larger pipe to allow for more throughput. If you [...]

Problem Diagnosis With Ping By Steve Waddington The two most used tools, and almost always the first used to diagnose a network problem are traceroute and ping. The results they return are however most often misunderstood or interpreted in a way that leads to an incorrect conclusion. Let’s take the ping utility specifically. The common [...]