This page discusses the importance of setting strong passwords on Cisco routers to ward off intruders. the following are guidelines for creating passwords, suggests using passphrases, and outlines the two Cisco password protection schemes – Type 7 and type 5 encryption. It also offers command examples for password encryption and establishing minimum password length.
Frame Relay – WAN Connection. Frame Relay is a popular high-performance wide area network – WAN protocol that operates at the physical and data link layers of the OSI reference model. Frame relay is a type of WAN connection used to connect one site to many remote sites through a single physical circuit, this operation makes it easy… Read More »
This post explains how to configure BGP using loopback addresses, especially with iBGP. It discusses this configuration within the context of RouterHQ and BranchOffice from AS 556.
Switches utilize two packet forwarding methods: Store-and-Forward, where the entire frame is received and error-checked before forwarding; and Cut-through, a faster method that immediately forwards received frames without error-checking.
DHCP assigns IP addresses and other important network configuration information to clients dynamically. Cisco router uses the Cisco IOS feature known as Easy IP as an optional DHCP server. Easy IP leases IP configurations to network clients for 24 hours by default. We use the topology diagram below as a sample network topology. Step 1. Configure excluded address(es): These addresses… Read More »
