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If you've used Cisco switch clustering in a basic network (for example, when all switches are connected together and <acronym title="Cisco Discovery Protocol">CDP</acronym> is enabled), you've likely never considered how this switches communicate with each other. You might assume that the switches are using IP addresses from …
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If you've spent any amount of time in Cisco networking with Catalyst switches, you've probably run across a port that is in err-disabled state. The most likely place to find this is in the output of show interfaces status. A switch port can end be error disabled if the software …
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In a Metro Ethernet network, the possibility exists for a lot of NetBIOS broadcasts if your users are connecting directly to the ring rather than through a firewall. My first assumption was that most users would have a firewall, but this is really only guaranteed in the case of business-class …
