Virtual Routing and Forwarding or VRF is a technology that supports multiple routing instance inside a single router (or layer-3 switch). This means a single router can have multiple separated routing table and each one is completely independent. Due to its independency, it also allows the usage of overlapping IP address. Cisco IOS router supports VRF by […]
VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) is used to synchronize VLAN creation between the switches in the network. Imagine you have dozens, if not hundreds of switches in your network. You have to log into each switch and manually create VLANs. This does not sound practical, does it? Using VTP protocol, you can manually create VLANs in […]
Communication between different VLANs require router or some form of routing. Routing between the VLANs can be done using layer 3 switch or use more popular form of inter-vlan routing called router on a stick. Layer 3 switches are pretty expensive which is the main reason why router on a stick configuration is popular. In […]
If you have basic understanding of VLANs in Switching World then you can easily configure VLANs in Cisco Catalyst switches. In this post, I will show steps to Configure VLAN in Cisco Catalyst Switch. Configure VLAN in Cisco Catalyst Switch The diagram below shows our scenario. There are two switches, Switch1 and Switch2. We will create […]
It is often a requirement to split a broadcast traffic or to restrict communication between hosts within a same VLAN. Private VLAN or PVLAN is a feature that is used to split broadcast traffic or restrict communication between hosts within a same VLAN in a switch. Private VLANs can be configured on all models of […]
Link Aggregation is very useful technology in areas where high availability and high bandwidth is required. It allows you to combine multiple interface into one at the MAC layer, providing redundancy and fault tolerance link at the same time. There are different names for this same technology. Cisco says ether channel, Juniper says bundle, others […]