December 20, 2008  6:33 AM

Cisco Etherchannel Overview and how it can be configured in Cisco Catalyst Switches – Series 2



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dear Friends, in my previous post I just introduced


December 15, 2008  6:55 AM

Cisco Etherchannel Overview and how it can be configured in Cisco Catalyst Switches – Series 1



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dear Friends in this upcoming series of posts I would like to concentrate on Etherchannel


December 14, 2008  7:04 AM

Cisco Systems announces CCIE Wireless Certification



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dear Friends Cisco Systems has announced the availably of CCIE Wireless Certification and it’s confirmed. So what are waiting for, you...


December 13, 2008  6:27 AM

How to configure an interface to default settings in a Cisco Switch or a Cisco Router?



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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This is a cool command to erase just the configuration for a particular interface in a Cisco Switch or a Cisco Router.

In the following example we will configure the interface fast Ethernet 0/9...


December 2, 2008  7:30 AM

How to configure SPAN(Switched Port Analyzer ) feature in a Cisco Catalyst Switch



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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It’s quite important for Network Engineers and an essential network troubleshooting technique to utilize the ability of Cisco Catalyst Switches


November 29, 2008  12:51 PM

Networking Professionals good news from Cisco to recertify your Cisco Certifications



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Cisco has extended the recertification for the networking professionals whose certifications are lapsing soon. With this special offer you start recertifying by taking an exam at the regular prick and if you don’t succeed in your first attempt no need to panic ,...


November 29, 2008  5:56 AM

Cisco announces Winners of the Digital Cribs Video Contest for Aspiring Filmmakers



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dear Friends As we all aware Cisco conducted a digital crib contest and now the much awaited results are announced and the Winners are


November 26, 2008  5:59 AM

What is Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI) ?



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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Dynamic ARP inspection is a security feature which validates ARP packet in a network. Dynamic ARP inspections validates the packet by performing IP to MAC address binding inspection stored in a trusted database (the DHCP snooping database) before forwarding the packet....


November 22, 2008  12:56 PM

How to configure DHCP Snooping in a Cisco Catalyst Switches.



Posted by: Yasir Irfan
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 So here we go, with the configuration of DHCP snooping on a Cisco Switch. This feature protects the network by allowing the Cisco Switches to accept DHCP response message only from the authorized servers connected to the trusted interfaces in a Cisco...