The big question we’ve been looking at for the last few weeks is the value of a 2 switch lab topology for prepping Spanning Tree topics for both CCNA and CCNP. I’ll conclude the discussion this week, ...

Those who had an opinion last week were split evenly: CCNA labs need either 2 or 3 switches, and CCNP labs need either 3 or 4. But why? We saw a few opinions floating around the blog last week, but ...

I've got a customer with a Dell switch (power connect 6248 I think) with 3 uplinks to my network. The uplinks are separate layer 3 links, each one being a separate IP block in a separate VLAN on my ...

Greetings all - we've recently upgraded our VI setup and am now looking into improving our uptime in case of other hardware failures - particularly our networking topology. In one rack (RACK-1) we ...

An algorithm that runs in network bridges and switches to prevent loops, in which packets keep going around in circles. In a small network with one or two switches, the spanning tree protocol (STP) ...