Tools, Tips and Reviews for Network Engineers
TweetEveryone remembers the original movie TRON where the character Flynn, played by Jeff Bridges, is sucked into the microscopic world of computer games. In the movie the villain was the Master Control Program or MCP who would take programs OFFLINE if they misbehaved. Switches have their own MCP (of sorts) which takes network switch ports [...]
TweetEntering the Nexus If you have a data center or if you have any services running in a data center then at some point you may have considered Cisco’s Nexus switching platform. Rightly so, Cisco’s Nexus platform promises and delivers huge flexibility and scalability gains within the data center. FabricPath To provide this next leap in data center switching [...]
TweetSpanning Tree and Switches are a lot like the Highlander – “there can be only one” (root bridge in your spanning tree). The process of electing a root bridge is very similar to Highlander in that switches will battle it out until one bridge is the root. And all designated ports shall forward to it! [...]
TweetAuthor: Andres Villalva Attending our weekly data center project meeting the other day, one of the network engineers was confronted with an incomplete action item against his name. He responded light heartedly by declaring that we were speaking to a ‘virtual instance’ of himself and that this particular instance had been assigned limited resources to [...]
TweetHere’s an issue than can occur when configuring EtherChannel on a 6500 series switch. So here’s the scene. You have an uplink that is constantly getting saturated due to backups (or whatever) and you need more than a Gigabit of throughput so that your network won’t be congested. No worries, you need to create an [...]
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