Rapid-spanning-tree is an enhanced 802.1d standard. The differences: Only waits for 3 missed Hello’s instead of 10 Hello’s (maxage timer) Transitioning from disabled state to learning state (skipping the Listening state) uses some other port types Max Age Max Age is refreshed every time the port receives a BPDU PVST i. non-designated ports will …
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May 28 2015
Network Virtualization Careers In-Depth Interview – Nemtallah Daher – #VirtualizeYourNetwork
Nemtallah Daher is Senior Network Delivery Consultant at the consulting firm AdvizeX Technology. What made you choose to get certified in network virtualization? About a year ago, I decided I needed to challenge myself a little bit more. I … Continued Source: Network Virtualization Careers In-Depth Interview – Nemtallah Daher – #VirtualizeYourNetwork – Original …
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Apr 03 2015
Encapsulation Overhead
There are variuos methods to encapsulate and tunnel traffic. Each one of these protocols adds an “envelope” to the packet which means more overhead and a bigger packet size. Here are a few of these protocols: Protocol Overhead Bytes IP 20 UDP 8 TCP 20 802.1Q 4 OTV 42 VXLAN 50 STT 54 GRE …
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Mar 24 2015
EIGRP Stub Statement
EIGRP – Stub Routing Stub routing is an EIGRP feature primarily designed to conserve local router resources, such as memory and CPU, and improve network stability. The stub routing feature is most commonly used in hub-and-spoke networks. This feature is configured only on the spoke routers. When configured on the spoke router, the router announces …
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Aug 21 2014
The Goal is Worth the Journey
On August 5, 2014, I attempted my first VCDX defense on network virtualization in Reston VA. It was a culmination of 4 months of hard work and sleepless nights. I even sent my family away on vacation half way around the world, so I can study and prepare without interruption. During my defense, I was …
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Mar 30 2014
HP Switch Commands
Someh helpful commands from my colleague Mitch Vaughan at AdvizeX · show running-config o this will show the current running configuration of the device · show config status o This will indicate if the running configuration differs from the startup configuration · write memory o Copy the running-configuration to …
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Feb 05 2014
PVST+ Spanning-tree Summary
Roles Bridges: root non-root Ports: Root Port (RP) Designated Port (DP) Non-designated Port (NDP) Overview For each VLAN choose one root bridge The switch with the lowest Bridge ID (BID) BID consists of 4-bit priority value (multiple of 4096) + 12-bit VLAN ID + MAC address Priority defaults to 8 (8 * 4096 = …
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Jan 02 2014
How OSPF Works
How OSPF establishes a neighbor OSPF routers send Hello packets to declare their presence on a network segment and listen for other routers. These Hellos are either multicast to 224.0.0.5 or unicast by static configuration. After OSPF router receives a Hello packet from a neighboring router on the same segment, it performs a series of …
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Jan 02 2014
OmniOS General Networking Commands
General OmniOS networking commands taken from the OmniOS site. Setting up dynamic (DHCP) networking # First identify the physical interface on which you would like networking: # dladm show-phys LINK MEDIA STATE SPEED DUPLEX DEVICE e1000g0 Ethernet unknown 0 half e1000g0 e1000g1 Ethernet ? 1000 full e1000g1 Physical interfaces that don’t have a corresponding IP interface …
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Dec 30 2013
Create Etherchannel, VLANs on Solaris and Cisco
Here is a quick guide on how to create an LACP etherchannel and add VLANs to that etherchannel. Current System root@csu-s:~# ifconfig -a lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000 e1000g0: flags=1000842<BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 4 inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0 …
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