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Route servers and looking glasses - what are they?
I've heard the term "route server" and "looking glass" thrown around here. What are they, and why should I care?
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Will IPv6 make private IP addresses become obsolete?
Will it still be useful to make use of private IP addresses with IPv6?
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Why can I traceroute to this IP address, but not ping?
I have an IP address and can traceroute to it, but I can not ping.
You see, I can traceroute 43.24.226.50:
dele-MBP:~ ll$ traceroute 43.24.226.50
traceroute to 43.24.226.50 (43.24.226.50), 64 hops max, 52 byte packets
1 router.asus.com…
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What does the 1000M on a network switch mean?
I thought the 1000M ment that it was capable of Gigabit speed but it isn't, I noticed then that it stated 10/100Mbps. What does this 1000M mean?
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How can I capture traffic on Cisco IOS switches?
For investigating a problem in client to server communication, I need to capture packets for analysis. However it's not allowed to install a packet analyzer, such as Wireshark or tcpdump, on client or server. They client is connected to a Catalyst…
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Why can't devices on different VLANs, but on the same subnet, communicate?
I have a question about switching. I have two devices connected to a switch with IP addresses 192.168.5.20 and 192.168.5.10. Both devices have the same prefix, /24. That means they are on the same subnet.
If I split these devices on different VLANs…
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Does it make sense to deploy OSPF across Metro Ethernet?
When I need to connect a number of branch sites to one another for a customer, I typically recommend an MPLS VPN through a trusted carrier. The CE at each site speaks BGP with its upstream PE and each site is numbered with its own private ASN. This…
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Why is 4096 the max value for VLANs
The Tag Protocol Identifier is set to 16 bits.
In the CCNA certification it is said that it's not possible to have more than 4096 VLANs.
4096 in binary is 1000000000000000.
Since 16 bits are allocated anyway, the limit could be…
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Difference between unresponsive (*) and unreachable (!H) hosts in traceroute output
When running traceroutes some hops return * which as far as I know means that the host is not responding to ICMP echo request, and some other hops (mainly the last) return !H which according to the man pages it means that the host is unreachable.…
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What is the purpose of network address?
What is the purpose of network address? (aka subnet address, starting address of each subnet)
For example in this network:
192.168.1.0/24
Why we should leave 192.168.1.0 address free?
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Difference between sniffer tools
I am unsure what the following networking tools do. They all seem to do a similar thing.
First some background. I am familiar with cisco IOS. I am doing some linux networking experimentation with virtual machines so I am trying to create a small…
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Is it safe to use any wifi channel in the 2.4GHz band?
It seems that everything I read about wifi says there are only three usable channels in the 2.4 GHz band; however, there are eleven 2.4Ghz wifi channels allowed in the US.
If everyone is using 1, 6 or 11, wouldn’t it make sense to use an unused…
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Usage of 192.168.xxx, 172.xxx and 10.xxx in private networks
I know that the organization that distributes IP addresses decided to assign 192.168.xxx, 172.xxx and 10.xxx to private networks. However, I thought that private networks have their own address space so shouldn't a private network be able to assign…
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Does CIDR really "do away" with IP address classes?
I am still struggling to understand to what extent CIDR really renders IP address classes obsolete. Here's what I understood so far:
It's ridiculously inefficient (and impossible, too) to assign every organization that needs to address more than…
user15544
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Why must all areas connect to an Area 0 backbone in OSPF?
This question is a literal repost of the same question asked on The Cisco Support Community. Answers are unique to Stack Exchange.
Why is area 0 the backbone area in OSPF? Why must all other areas connect to it?
I have been searching for the…
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