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IP Address Management

IPAM (IP Address Management) software is important in medium and large network. It may be helpful in a small network depending on how you define small. There are several ways to manage IP addresses and the two well known ways are spreadsheet and IPAM software. Managing IP addresses on a spreadsheet can be a nightmare [...] [...]

Switch port density

A Network Engineer was tasked to upgrade the existing switch infrastructure for a site since the current infrastructure does not support PoE for the new project – VoIP and IP enabled CCTV cameras. Upon investigating, he saw that the site has three switches and some ports were not lit up and now needs to know [...] [...]

Manipulating Shaping Values

Cisco’s recommendation is to leave the shaping values (Bc – committed burst and Tc – committed rate interval time) alone if you’re not servicing delay sensitive application, like voice. By default Class Based Shaping use 8000 bits for Bc and 125 ms for Tc if it is below 320 Kbps shaping rate. For 320 Kbps [...] [...]

Switch Port Template

This article will cover a switch port template that I consistently use for user switch ports. These commands also help in speeding up switch port initialization. Anything that speeds up the process is normally a good thing. [...]