I'm looking over a Cisco 2950 switch to see which ports are uplinks and which are regular ports, but I can't see anything which differentiates them when looking at the interface list. A Cisco 877 ...

The Catalyst 2950-24 is a Cisco fixed-configuration standalone switch. It offers basic Layer-2 switching plus a wide range of management features. Aimed at small and medium-sized networks, it provides ...

So, we’ve discussed routers and tradeoffs in buyed used routers for a few weeks now. So… what do you do for switches? Well, at first glance, the task can be a bit daunting if oyu’re still pretty new ...

While configuring a new Cisco Catalyst switch isn’t necessary difficult, it can be time-consuming. Why not automate the process with an Excel template? As a companion download to David Davis’ article, ...

After working through a longish discussion about Cisco routers for your CCNA lab, it will be nice to discuss switches. Thankfully, the choice of switches is a lot easier to figure out than the choice ...

David Davis explains how to configure EtherChannel to increase your bandwidth and provide redundancy on a Cisco network. In my previous article on the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP), I ...

Guys I recently put together a Cisco lab I have 3 2950 switches the problem is these things are loud and I don't have a basement so I can't just stick the rack down there. The only place I could stick ...