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Using CDP To Track Down Physical Connections
We have a location that’s a few blocks down from the main office here, and we were reviewing the circuit size to make sure it was sized properly. Since not one person knows what’s going on …
Back to Basics -- CAM Table Population
At the office, we reprovision servers like it’s going out of style. It happens so often that my cabling documentation rarely matches what’s actually out in field, which is a pretty big …
Storm Control
We run a large number of LANs all over the country that are “controlled” by the particular business unit. We manage the gear, but, since they have the money and have to pay for anything we …
Getting Started with EtherChannel
In my professional life at some point, I came across someone who had a stack of Catalyst 2950 switches all trunked together with their Internet routers connected to the top of the stack. This was all …
VTP and You
VLAN Trunk Protocol (VTP) is a little gem on Cisco switches that allows you configure VLANs in one place and have them appear on all of your switches. This is great for large enterprises with 8457839 …
DHCP on the ASA 5505
Let’s keep going with our example setup on the ASA 5505 and set up DHCP on this guy. You can set it up to either forward (relay) DHCP requests to a DHCP server somewhere or have it be the DHCP …