Port mirroring is a feature that duplicates network traffic from a source host’s port to a secondary host for analysis. It can be used for monitoring, troubleshooting, and analyzing network ...

When a network router doesn't have enough network ports to connect all the necessary devices, a switch can be used to add additional ports. In the case of business networks, switches are often ...

One way to boost network security is to use Cisco's Port Security feature to lock down switch ports. Learn the basics of port security, and find out how to configure this feature. A growing challenge ...

There’s no such thing as a dedicated iSCSI switch because iSCSI storage traffic runs on Ethernet networks. That doesn’t mean, however, that we can’t have a discussion about iSCSI switches as there are ...

Sample Design and Configuration for Layer 2 Out-of-Band Deployment Sample Design and Configuration for Layer 3 Out-of-Band Deployment This chapter covers the configuration of the Out-of-Band (OOB) ...

When configuring MPIO with 2 redundant switches, and 2 iSCSI nic's per host, one nic running to each of the two switches(for example), is it *required* to have at least two subnets, one for each iscsi ...

Smart switches offer functionality found in managed switches, such as VLANs, port mirroring, and link aggregation. However, smart switches are typically targeted towards small and midsized networks ...