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Gratuitous ARP and Basics of Connecting a Cisco IOS Switch with a Cisco CatOS Switch
Some of you may have an old Cisco Catalyst switch laying around that you may want to put to use. CatOS is the old Cisco operating system for Catalyst switches that predates IOS; it can still be found on some … Continue reading
Posted in Cisco, Labs, Networking, Protocols, Technology
Tagged 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-SX GBI, CAM, Catalyst 3548-XL, Catalyst 3550, Catalyst 4003, Catalyst C4000, Catalyst C4003, CatOS, Cisco, Cisco 1000Base-SX, Cisco 1000Base-SX GBIC, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Catalyst 3548-XL, Cisco Catalyst 3550, Cisco Catalyst 4000, Cisco Catalyst 4003, Cisco Catalyst C4003, Cisco CatOS, Cisco GBIC, Cisco IOS, Cisco WS-X4012, Cisco WS-X4232-GB-RJ, Cisco WS-X4232-L3, delete configuration, Dell, Dell EqualLogic, Dell EqualLogic storage, EqualLogic, erase configuration, GBIC, Gratuitous ARP, ios, IXIA, MAC address, MAC address table, reset configuration, Supervisor Engine, Supervisor Engine 1, Supervisor Engine 2, Supervisor Engine I, Supervisor Engine II, Windows PC, wireshark, WS-C3548-XL-EN, WS-X4012, WS-X4232-GB-RJ, WS-X4232-L3
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Functionality of Layer 2 Switches/Bridges
Layer 2 switches and bridges switch frames on a network while layer 3 routers route packets between networks. I once heard a network engineer being asked if a network can be made faster if the network is optimized to use … Continue reading
Posted in Networking, Technology
Tagged Address Learning, application specific integrated circuits, ASICs, bridges, bridging technologies, broadcasts, Cisco, collision domain, collision domains, datalink layer, filter table, Forward/Filter Decisions, frame, frame filtering, frames, layer 2 broadcasts, Layer 2 Switching, Loop Avoidance, MAC, MAC address, MAC address table, MAC database, Media Access Control, Media Access Control Address, multicasts, network, network layer, network loops, networking, packet, packets, routers, slow convergence, Spanning Tree Protocol, STP, switches, switching
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