WAN Questions


Cisco 2811 config
Hi guys, I have two Cisco 2811 routers. Each of them has 2 Fast Ethernet and 1 Serial interfaces. I have two WAN connections on each router. One of them via FastEthernet0/0 and another one via Serial. I try to connect these two routers with redundancy scheme. For example, if primary connection Serial is down [...]

Answer Question   |  May 4, 2009  1:40 PM
Cisco 2811, Cisco 2811 configuration, Cisco Routers, Remote connection, Routers, VPN, WAN
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5 pts.

Connect LAN to WAN
A company has 50 computers and 5 servers’ dells with graphics design separated in three different floors VLAN has been used to separate 4 different departments, which WAN technology is the best to connect the company to the internet and stuff can connect to the company server from home. That is my assignment please helps [...]

Answer Question   |  May 4, 2009  2:24 PM
LAN, Network design, VLAN, WAN, WAN design, WAN technologies
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5 pts.

Limited or no connectivity when moving from LAN to WAN
We have two sites about 16 miles apart and our problem is users moving from LAN to WAN are not being automatically assigned an IP address for about 60 – 90 minutes. DHCP leasing is limited to 7 days and has always been set to that. Have tested the following scenarios moving from LAN and [...]

Answer Question   |  April 14, 2009  3:36 PM
DHCP, DHCP Lease Renewal, LAN, LAN to WAN Connectivity, WAN
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45 pts.

Networking VLANs using router-on-a-stick configuration
I want to setup a router-on-a-stick in a WAN, where I will have a VTP server on one side of the network and a VTP client on the other side. I want VLAN information to trigger down to the client switch. There are two routers and two switches, and a total of four VLANs. How [...]

Answer Question   |  April 2, 2009  3:51 PM
Cisco VTP, Network connectivity, Router-on-a-stick Configuration, VLAN, WAN
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1,545 pts.

Cisco 1800 Serial WAN Link Unstable
I have a 1800 and the Serial link to a remote site keeps shutting down everytime there’s traffic going over it. when I do a “no shut” it comes up for a while and as soon as there’s even a ping being sent, it will go to a “shut” state

Answer Question   |  April 1, 2009  2:19 PM
Cisco 1800, Serial Link, WAN
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140 pts.

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10 pts.

how to measure network speed on wan
how to monitor the network speed on wan accurately. i did a tacert and path ping n i just got 2 hops staistics and trace was complete without any error , however the time it took was 318 ms average , i tried the trace from both the sides(ends) of the WAN i got the [...]

Answer Question   |  March 6, 2009  3:11 PM
Network performance, Network performance monitoring, WAN
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5 pts.

WAN configuration
how configure the central router in central office? how configure the router in remote branch office ? please,give me a sample configuration of central router configuration in central office. LINE :E1 FOR CENTRAL OFFICE BANDWIDTH OF BRANCH OFFICES:256 KBPS ROUTER IN CENTRAL OFFICE : CISCO 3800 ROUTER USED IN REMOTE BRANCH OFFICE : 1841 TYPE [...]

Answer Question   |  October 5, 2009  10:15 AM
Branch Office networks, Network design, Router configuration, Routers, WAN, WAN design
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5 pts.

Login Failure on Disconnected Domain Controllers
I have a WAN with 6 domain controllers connected to a center domain server with all the roles on this server.When ever there is a break on the WAN the domain controllers administrators report of not been able to login to the branch domain controllers server with there account or the domain adminstrative account. what [...]

Answer Question   |  February 17, 2009  2:30 PM
Domain Controller, Logon failure, Network administration, Network connectivity, WAN
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5 pts.

How to configure load balancing on Cisco 1751 router with 2 serial WAN connections?
How to configure load balancing on Cisco 1751 router with 2 serial WAN connections (different service providers)? Thank you.

Answer Question   |  March 1, 2009  4:25 PM
Cisco, Cisco 1751, Cisco router configuration, Cisco Routers, Load balancing, Router configuration, Routers, WAN
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1,545 pts.

load balance on WAN interfaces
How can I set up two 2811 routers coneected together with two leased lines with load balance. There are two 2M leased lines to form a 4M leased line for operation.

Answer Question   |  February 9, 2009  3:52 PM
Cisco 2811, Cisco router configuration, Cisco Routers, Load balancing, WAN
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5 pts.

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 [...]

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2009  1:19 AM
EIGRP, Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, MPLS, Multiprotocol Label Switching, Network design, Network protocols, Routing and switching, WAN, WAN design
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5 pts.

WAN design and implementation
I am about to embark on a major project. There is a new organization with 7 sites without a single computer or LAN. I want to setup LAN in each of the sites, and then setup WAN to connect all sites. And there will be few remotes users that will connect to the branch network [...]

Answer Question   |  January 12, 2012  5:39 PM
ATM, Branch Office networks, Frame Relay, LAN, Network design, Remote access, VPN, WAN
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25 pts.

Exchange server sync to data center moving emails from client to email server
Quick question, we are looking for the best way to mitigate data synchronization over our WAN after a large Exchange migration. For example, we have just taken a 250 user company with 450gb of mail into our system. With this project it was all or nothing, they needed access to all mail from day. So [...]

Answer Question   |  December 9, 2008  2:55 PM
.OST files, Data Center management, Exchange Server Synchronization, WAN
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16,755 pts.

Replicating SAN to DR Site
We are looking to build a warm DR site across town. How are other companies managing to duplicate their data in a reasonable time to another location? We are looking to copy around 150 GB per day. We don’t need up to the minute data, up to the hour or two is acceptable.

Answer Question   |  December 1, 2008  4:21 PM
Data Replication, Disaster Recovery, Disaster recovery planning, DR, SAN, WAN
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20 pts.

Using switch or router ACL to block streaming traffic
I would like to block streaming media requests using either the LAN switch or the site edge router. The site is on a private network and does not have a local firewall at the edge. Has anyone used Cisco ACL’s for this purpose and if so, how did you do it? Or, would I be [...]

Answer Question   |  November 29, 2008  6:44 PM
ACL, Cisco IOS, Firewalls, Internet, NetScreen, Network traffic management, PIX, Routers, Security, Streaming media, WAN
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32,645 pts.

5 Clinics on 1 WAN
I need to set up 5 clinics on one WAN, allowing them to share same server for email, talk directly with doctors at other locations, on central network to access client information, they have a data exchange of 1.5MB/second at any given time, the architecture is Windows 2003 with a fiber-optic backbone and gigabyte switches [...]

Answer Question   |  November 11, 2008  12:16 AM
Network design, Routers, WAN, WAN design, Wide Area Networks, Windows Server 2003
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5 pts.

How much technical knowledge is needed to manage my LAN/WAN team?
I am currently a Service Desk manager. I may be taking on a new role (which I asked for) as IT Manager that is not only in charge of the Service Desk but also the LAN/WAN. As a manager, how much technical knowledge is needed to manage the LAN/WAN portion of the team? Can I [...]

Answer Question   |  November 10, 2008  4:18 PM
Career change, Career development, IT jobs, Job Description, LAN, learning, Managers, Network management, Networking, WAN
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1,545 pts.

Ping of Death
Hi, I have a remote office connected over a T1 line to the main office with Cisco routers. The problem is that I get tons of logs in our main firewall that connects to the outside world saying “Ping of Death Blocked” The source of the attack is always an IP address(not always the same) [...]

Answer Question   |  October 29, 2008  8:36 PM
Firewalls, LAN, Ping, Remote access, T1, WAN
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30 pts.

Routing bet diff ISP
Dear Sir, I have one cisco 1700 series router with 2T WAN interface card,currently we using only one WAN interface point to point link,speed 1 mbps. I have one 2 mbps RF link witch is directly terminate on LAN switch and router’s fastethernet is also connecting the same switch, both link use for data. If [...]

Answer Question   |  October 10, 2008  1:14 PM
Cisco 1700, Routing, Switches, WAN
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5 pts.