Routing And Switching

TWO DIFFERENT IP ADDRESS

 Port Forwarding Port Checker  give's me this ip address"192.168.0.184". But Open Port Check Tool return this ip address "24.247.163.127".      What I try to do is set up an COD4 server, but unable to open the correct port " 28960". I am using an D-link DGL 4500 router. Software/Hardware...

Cheap, Good and Easy way to rout and load balance a second Internet uplink

We would like to add a second Internet line into our school. I'm looking for an easy solution, because I have very limited knowledge of networking. It needs to be inexpensive, because we are on a show string budget (like everyone else right now except the banks). And it needs to do a good job of...

Can't connect D-Link media converter with Cisco switch 2950

I am using Cisco switch 2950 connected with a D-Link media converter. When power is reset, that switch is up but the port connected with the media converter is down. After I reset power of the media converter, the link comes up. What's going on here, and how can I fix this? Software/Hardware...

How to detect duplicate IP addresses

How is it possible to detect/locate/discover a duplicate IP address in a network? If this network has a router, does this method of discovery still work?

VLAN for Public Wifi

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me out with my HP ProCurve 4208vl switch.  It's in a mostly default configuration: switch (default vlan) ip: 10.1.1.95 default gateway: 10.0.0.1 / 255.0.0.0. I would like to create a second VLAN for a Public Access WiFi.  I have a DHCP server running on one...

Is there a way to edit my firewall rules in one place?

Can I configure my network to reroute traffic to one server, so I can edit my firewall rules in one place?

Can you be annonymous on a guest VLAN?

We have a network with multiple Vlans seperating departments etc. We have a guest Vlan for people to use that need access to the internet. We need to find a way of stopping the guest users from being able to 'see' each other within the guest Vlan. I can only think of seperating each user into...

Configuration for the OEC or Motorola Canopy router

I would like to know how to configure the OEC or Motorola Canopy router. Where can I find this information?

Layer 2 vs. Layer 3 generic routing encapsulation (GRE)

What is the difference between Layer 2 GRE and Layer 3 GRE?

Connecting data closet switches to the core with redundant links

I'm moving our flat network which covers a three-story building and about 450 users to a subnetted network. I would like to know about connecting data closet switches to the core with redundant links. Can I implement OSPF on the core and connecting switches and eliminate spanning tree? In this...

If my network's configured incorrectly, how are my computers communicating?

I have a question regarding communication within a local network. Please correct me If I am wrong: If there are two computers in a local network, Computer (A) and Computer(B), and if (A) wants to communicate with (B) or vice versa, then the request first strikes the router's LAN interface, right? ...

2 DSLs aggregated to a Cisco 5505 asa router

I am waiting for our FIOS connectivity and am presently using EMBARK DSL in its place. As an interim measure I want to add a second DSL to get more throughput. 1. Can this be done 2. Should both DSL modems ahve the same static ip from the provider Any help would be greatly appreciated Thx - Joe

multiple lans, subnets, dsl connections on the same cables

well this is my first post and its a doosie. At lewast for me. Looking for an all wise network guru!! =] we had an existing network consisting of 10pc's, a win2k server and a dsl connection. all was fine... dsl router:192.168.0.1 server: 192.168.0.10, 192.168.0.50 easy as pie... now we are...

Routing VLANs to public IPs from Intranet through Fortigate firewall

We have three virtual local area networks (VLANs) as follows: 1 data, 2 voice and 3 wireless. We have 6506e at the core, and interVLAN routing is working fine. The problem is implementing FortiGate firewall in transparent mode and terminating the ISP on the router with Ethernet output. I am not...

MAC address binding in Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches

How can we do MAC address binding in Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) switches?

How does ATM differ from existing network technology?

How does an ATM differ from existing network technology?

Router configured one hop from PC with default gateway as IP address

What would happen and what would be the flow if I configured a PC with the default gateway as an IP address of the router that is one hop away -- that means, I have one more router in between?

Cisco 2600 router configuration

Hi..We have two cisco 2600 router, one deployed in our main office and the other in our remote site.We also have two DSL connections.We have our exchange server in main office. Q1.how to configure the two router to use the 2 dsl connections that we have. Q2.how to route our exchange server to pass...

Connecting 2, 3 or 4 sites over MPLS

Hi. I have some routing experience but I don't have much experience routing over a service providers MPLS network and had some questions.. Say I had 3 sites in different cities. I want to be able to route my data traffice to each site. I would like to use a MPLS provider. Does the provider...

When not to use a Layer 3 switch over a router

If a Layer 3 switch is faster than a router, why can't we use an L3 in place of a router?